So I pulled a Christmas cracker this morning. But I’m not sure what the toy is. There are six little cards, decorated as playing cards on their backs. Each card has a different coloured face: Blue, pink, orange, purple, red, black. Each has four rows of eight numbers.
[ul][li]The purple one has odd numbers from 1 to 63. [/li][li]The blue one has 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, 44, 45, 46, 47, 52, 53, 54, 55, 60, 61, 62, 63. So four consecutive numbers, and then a gap of 4.[/li][li]The pink one has 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63. So eight consecutive numbers followed by a gap of 8.[/li][li]The orange one has 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 18… and so on. Two consecutive numbers followed by a gap of 2.[/li][li]The red one starts at 16 for a total of 16 consecutive numbers followed by a gap of 16.[/li][li]The black one starts at 32 and continues consecutively to 63.[/ul][/li]So each starts with a number that is equal to the gap between consecutive numbers. (i.e., Purple starts with 1, there’s a gap of 1, then three, a gap of 1, etc. One assumes that the next number on the black card, if it exceeded the 32 numbers on it, would be 96.)
Is this some sort of game? Or is it a simple brainteaser? Or maybe it’s a guess-the-game brainteaser? (Or am I expecting too much out of a toy that came out of a cracker?)