# 1588, 1820, 2148, 2204, 2284, ? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 13, 2010, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1588-1820-2148-2204-2284/550138 "2010-08-13T11:25:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1588-1820-2148-2204-2284/550138/1 "2010-08-13T11:25:49Z")
Wow, I haven’t felt this dumb in a long time. It took me forever to get it, and I still wonder if my method was some convoluted coincidence that just happened to work. Was it more obvious to you? What’s the logic? It was from #13 here: [Intelligence Test (Number Patterns)](http://similarminds.com/intelligence-number-door.html) Please [spoiler] answers. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1588-1820-2148-2204-2284/550138/2 "2010-08-13T11:49:42Z")
2396 ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1588-1820-2148-2204-2284/550138/3 "2010-08-13T11:59:05Z")
Yeah, but why? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1588-1820-2148-2204-2284/550138/4 "2010-08-13T12:48:06Z")
1588+58_4=1820; 1820+82_4=2148; 2148+14_4=2204; 2204+20_4=2284; 2284+28\*4= 2396 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1588-1820-2148-2204-2284/550138/5 "2010-08-14T04:28:10Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > 1588+58_4=1820; 1820+82_4=2148; 2148+14_4=2204; 2204+20_4=2284; 2284+28\*4= 2396 I wish my brain worked that way. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1588-1820-2148-2204-2284/550138/6 "2010-08-14T06:28:05Z")
If your brain worked the way my brain worked, you’d currently be working in Kurdistan. And not in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1588-1820-2148-2204-2284/550138/7 "2010-08-14T21:36:50Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > 1588+58_4=1820; 1820+82_4=2148; 2148+14_4=2204; 2204+20_4=2284; 2284+28\*4= 2396 Thanks. Was that easy to figure out for you? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1588-1820-2148-2204-2284/550138/8 "2010-08-15T06:36:19Z")
I am terrible at these things. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1588-1820-2148-2204-2284/550138/9 "2010-08-15T18:03:25Z")
You’re not the only one 🙂 Out of curiosity, Zebra, is [this one](http://similarminds.com/intdoor.html) any easier or harder for you? ---
**Author:** ![in\_hiding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c5a1d2/32.png) [@in\_hiding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/in_hiding)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1588-1820-2148-2204-2284/550138/10 "2010-08-15T20:40:18Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > You’re not the only one 🙂 Out of curiosity, Zebra, is [this one](http://similarminds.com/intdoor.html) any easier or harder for you? I couldn’t answer _any_ of the number-questions (gave up as i didn’t get any answer after a few minutes), but the shapes where pretty easy, if I understood the result correctly. Depends on how the brain is wired, I guess.