Next in the series will be W2 (or W02). The letters represent
alternate days on a calendar: Friday the 21st, Sunday the 23rd,
Tuesday the 25th, Thursday the 27th, Saturday the 29th, Monday the
31st. Since we skip over Tuesday, the next in the series is Wednesday,
which would be the 2nd day of the new month.
"F21, S23, T25, T27, S29, M31.
What comes next in this series?
Answer:
The sequence represents: Friday 21, Sunday 23, Tuesday 25, Thursday
27, Saturday 29, Monday 31, then Wednesday 2. (Every other day)"
Detroit Area Council of Teachers of Mathematics: NPR Sequence Puzzle
http://www.dactm.org/FACTORIAL/npr_sequence_puzzle.htm
"This has nothing to do with math:
F21: Friday the 21st.
S23: Sunday the 23rd.
T25: Tuesday the 25th.
T27: Thursday the 27th.
S29: Saturday the 29th.
M31: Monday the 31st.
Skipping every other day, the next term must be 'Wednesday the 2nd,'
or 'W2' (or maybe 'W02')."
PurpleMath: Non-Math Puzzles
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/nextnumb4.htm
"The Current Challenge (given October 31, 1999):
This challenge comes from Serhiy Grabarchuk, Jr., who attended the
World Puzzle Championship. Write down the following 6 things: F21,
S23, T25, T27, S29, and M31. What comes next in this series?
The answer is W2. The series is composed by starting with a Friday
the 21st, and taking the initial of the English day of the week, and
the number of the day, for every other day."
Post from rec.puzzles newsgroup 1999/11/07
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1cc6deff%26199911071431.JAA11197%40sparticus.bright.net&output=gplain
Google search strategy:
Google Web Search: "F21, S23, T25, T27, S29, M31"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22F21%2C+S23%2C+T25%2C+T27%2C+S29%2C+M31%22
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