March 29, 20214 yr Author SEQUENCES: Question 1 A lot of people picked up on the fact that these songs reached number 1 in January/Q1. I'd like to say that it was a sneaky red herring, but it was a complete coincidence, I didn't even realise! The actual connection is that the number of credited artists increases by one each time (1 on drivers license, 2 on Somebody That I Used to Know, then 3 on Own It). So any song with 4 credited artists was correct! There's another accepted sequence found by two people (detailed below), it's far more complicated than I could've come up with but it's correct so that scores points too! Correctly answered (9): dandy*, n4yr, xajnipi, Mangø, jimwatts, Doctor Blind, paulgilb, PeteFromLeeds, dan::G Alternate accepted answers (2): RabbitFurCoat, Riser: Descending number of weeks at #1, from 9>5>3>2, meaning the gap halves each time (first it's 4 less, then 2 less, then 1 less)
March 29, 20214 yr Q3 took me forever, I had to scour Wikipedia for a connection :lol: had no idea Miley covered Heart of Glass!
March 29, 20214 yr Omg I thought that was to do with palindrome dates of number 1, I just couldn’t shake it went from 2021 to 2012, wayyyy off!
March 29, 20214 yr I did think of the 9/5/3/2 thing first of all, but it seemed a little too arbitrary. Then once I got it, it took a while to think of a four-artist #1 (Feels is the one I came up with)
March 29, 20214 yr Oh nooo I noticed the descending number of weeks thing but thought that was too vague as a guess 😓 Note to self: anything is better than nothing as a guess!! Definitely didn’t think about the features thing though.
March 29, 20214 yr Author SEQUENCES: Question 2 These are all synonyms for Taylor Swift lead singles. The next in the sequence is Willow, so anything representing that word was correct - most people went for the tree but there were also a few Willow Smiths and the character from Buffy! Correctly answered (24): dandy*, chrissmith276, n4yr, JulianT, uptempo_owww!, AaronTM, RabbitFurCoat, rio309, xajnipi, Mangø, jimwatts, Soy Adrián, Doctor Blind, paulgilb, Riser, PeteFromLeeds, CJK, dan::G, Bjork, StoneDragon, Jade, Suedehead2, LewisGT, Chez Wombat Correct connection but wrong 4th song (1 point): jakewild, coi
March 29, 20214 yr I guessed Q1 was something to do with ages at which you can do certain things (get a driving license, change your name and own property), but would have been very surprised if I’d been right! Edited March 29, 20214 yr by JulianT
March 29, 20214 yr I quite liked my answer for the first one in Round 2 and it seemed to fit... All #1s and the first syllable on the next song is the same as the last syllable of the previous song... Edited March 29, 20214 yr by chrissmith276
March 29, 20214 yr I almost put Taylor Swift US #1s until I remembered that ‘ME!’ peaked at #2 :lol: thankfully leads then clicked.
March 29, 20214 yr The number of artists one is probably the first of those which I don't feel annoyed at myself for not getting! :lol: The trend resumes though with this one, managing to get that they were Taylor singles but not lead singles!
March 29, 20214 yr Author I quite liked my answer for the first one in Round 2 and it seemed to fit... All #1s and the first syllable on the next song is the same as the last syllable of the previous song... I could see what you meant for "...Know" into "Own It" but I didn't think "...ense" into "Some..." quite worked, sorry!
March 29, 20214 yr Author SEQUENCES: Question 3 Some people said these all feature in adverts - as far as I know the only one that has is the Fleetwood Mac one? Take the first letter of the artist and song, and you'll get H G F E D C. It's the alphabet going backwards towards A, so any artist beginning with B who's had a song starting with A was correct! Correctly answered (9): dandy*, chrissmith276, JulianT, rio309, xajnipi, Doctor Blind, paulgilb, Bjork, Chez Wombat Alternate accepted answers: PeteFromLeeds: Increasing syllables according to the Fibonacci sequence
March 29, 20214 yr Ahh so that's what it was! I did think my guess was a bit of a long shot but I was at least right in it being something to do with the titles of the songs.
March 29, 20214 yr I thought 2.1 had to do with age at which they got to #1, cos Olivia, Kimbra and Burna Boy were all young so I thought the right answer was that guy that did Savage Love with Derulo :D
March 29, 20214 yr Yes, that only twigged with me after the deadline. Although I thought my idea was quite a good fit - the Four Elements (Earth, Air, Water, Fire - there's air Everywhere, right?) - so I went for Bangles - Eternal Flame as the 4th clue. Please could I at least have half a point for Bangles? Edited March 29, 20214 yr by jimwatts
March 29, 20214 yr Finally one that I can say I'd never have worked out! That Fibonacci answer is incredible :lol:
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