Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Find the Number (This is a game where the answer is a 10-digit mobile number. Each clue gives you one number)

Count up to me and we’re all unique

Go beyond, and then you’ll see

How we have to combine and repeat

To form all the numbers - one to infinity!


I’m usually the sign that dawn is nigh

After me, the sun climbs up in the sky

I’m more than halfway down the line

But in a dozen I’m half, and that should tell you just fine!


I may be little, I may be small

But yet I’m able to stand tall

Because all that’s even is based upon me

Take me out of the system and only odd you’ll see!


I’ll tell you who I am loud and clear

I’m part of a sweet teenage year

If you still have doubts here’s another clue

Seven times me is forty-two!


I’m one of the numbers on a die

To find me out, hard you must try

I can’t be formed with just one hand

Three of me and I’m the devil’s brand!


Perhaps this is the easiest clue

If you know a little, you’ll know me too

I’m not a wonder of any kind

But think wonders of the world and I result in mind!


I am born when the sun meets the rain

I stretch across the sky like a curving train

I end at a pot of gold, or so they say

The number of my colors is the answer today!


I rhyme perfectly with another

It’s four more than me, so please be clever

One that’s like two sticks placed side by side

Do the math correctly and then decide!


Multiply any number by me

Add the digits that result and you’ll see

It’s not magic though it seems to be

How I turn up as the answer and solve the mystery


I feature in this game many a time

So much so that it’s hard to find a rhyme

I’m almost a right angle, upside down

That should tell you who I am, so please don’t frown!


NB - I wrote this game for an event that I recently hosted. Whoever could figure out the number from the clues and dial it first was the winner.