The answers are only limited by your ability to recognize potential patterns. The most obvious pattern of course is that each number is equal to 1 + the last number, but as you said, the answer is not 6. Here is what I think the second most obvious answer might be:
- The answer is 10. If you are counting in base 6, 6 in base 6 is 10
There are also a wide number of sillier answers you could generate:
- The answer is 1. If the pattern is just 1,2,3,4,5 repeated over and over, it would start over back at 1.
- The answer is 7. The numbers have to contain the letters E or O, so it cannot be 6.
- The answer is 14. The numbers have to alternate between having the letters E and O. Since FIVE has an E, the next number must be FOURTEEN
- The answer is 11, because the number of letters in the numbers has the pattern 3, 3, 5, 4, 4. The next number in that pattern would be 4+2, which is 6, and ELEVEN is the next number that has six letters. The word length pattern would continue: 5, 5, 7, 6, 6, 8 making the next numbers in the sequence 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and then I don’t believe there is a number after 90 with 8 letters (one-googol has 9.) I like this pattern the most!
At this point my imagination is starting to wear thin, so I’ll leave it to you to find any other patterns!
Nice
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