# Something trivial - like a puzzle needing answered. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-trivial-like-a-puzzle-needing-answered/184535 "2003-06-26T15:46:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-trivial-like-a-puzzle-needing-answered/184535/1 "2003-06-26T15:46:11Z")
Can anyone help with this question: (no context I’m afraid, just this) In the same overall entertaining context that **BM** was associated with 12 **K** with 13 \*\*S \*\* with 22 \*\*M \*\* with 27 and **NC** with 65 Then what letters are associated with 15? Any help will be gratefully appreciated. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-trivial-like-a-puzzle-needing-answered/184535/2 "2003-06-26T19:53:21Z")
Do you know the answer to this **Aro**? I admit to being stumped so far. I’m assuming “entertaining context” is a hint, but I’m not completely sure. This doesn’t seem to be one of those “DIAW=7” (Days in a week =7) type puzzle. For one thing, there aren’t enough letters to make a proper acronym, and we are finally asked to find the letters associated with a number, and not the reverse. BM, K, S, M, and NC might be first letters in a common group associated with numbers, but I’ve racked my brain and can’t come up with anything. Sports related, perhaps? Any simple “A=1, B=2 …” type of code seems irrelevant. There are no vowels, but that’s likely unimportant. Scrabble tiles…nah…no connection. I’m cranky and lost here. Grr… ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-trivial-like-a-puzzle-needing-answered/184535/3 "2003-06-27T07:39:00Z")
No, no answer. It’s from a [postal quiz](http://www.bollands.demon.co.uk/gbq/GBQ113qs.htm) I do every month. They are usually very tricky or obscure. Could be initials of artists with song chart positions, authors and books on bestselling list positions, something like that. It’s the last question I have to fiind an answer for this month. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-trivial-like-a-puzzle-needing-answered/184535/4 "2003-06-27T10:20:16Z")
I’m stumped so far. Ideas I’ve had include elements (periodic table), star types, and others that don’t get far. Also considered other number systems like octal and hex, but that appears useless. The “BM” and “NC” have to be good clues, especially when “M” is listed separtely. But if “NC” happened to be North Carolina, then the “M” alone makes no sense (or very little). And then what would “BM” be? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-trivial-like-a-puzzle-needing-answered/184535/5 "2003-06-27T15:30:45Z")
I keep coming back to sports… How about some sports team where players jersey numbers matched a last name or hypenated last name in the case of the double letters? I can think of how else numbers are _exclusively_ associated with anything in the entertainment world. After all, several books might be associated with a numbered space on a best seller list…and what list anyway? And who cares about 65th place? Nah…it seems to me, in order to be fair, the letters and letter numbers must relate to something very specific and very connected. ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-trivial-like-a-puzzle-needing-answered/184535/6 "2003-06-28T00:39:19Z")
NYPD B for NYPD Blue = 15th precinct Barney Miller = 12th precinct Naked City = 65th precinct Kojak = 13th precinct S = ? M = Mc Cloud = 27th precinct ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-trivial-like-a-puzzle-needing-answered/184535/7 "2003-06-28T00:44:38Z")
S = Serpico = 22nd precinct Google is my friend. ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-trivial-like-a-puzzle-needing-answered/184535/8 "2003-06-28T09:23:13Z")
**dbygawdcapn** , great answer. Good work! Thanks a lot. I should have got that from the Kojak one…dammit! 😉