Hello Folks, I am practically a ghost here but I thought I'd check in. While checking in, I checked my old Private Messages and found a riddle. Whilst looking at it, I realized that thought I discovered the answer at one point, I have no idea how. So here is your chance to have a spot of fun and solve the riddle.
Rules:
1. I have the answer, so I know.
2. If you have the answer, you must PM me the answer and how you got there
3. You must write on the thread that you know the answer but you CANNOT say the answer till I give the ok.

OK?

Riddle:

1
1 1
2 1
1 2 2 1
1 1 2 2 1 1
2 1 2 2 2 1
1 2 3 2 1 1

Ready?
Set?
GO!

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If we discover a desire within ourselves that nothing in this world can satisfy, then we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
~C.S. Lewis

Know the answer.

Edited to remove answer hint.

And you who seek to know me,
know that the seeking and yearning
will avail you not,
unless you know the Mystery:
for if that which you seek,
you find not within yourself,
you will never find it without.



Edited 1 times. Last edit at 04/09/12 10:40AM by Rian.

Okay, so I've never really been very good at these... I really have no idea as to what the answer is... but I keep trying to figure it out. Can someone post the answer so I don't have to go crazy? :P

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Signatures are annoying, I refuse to have one.

Absolutely no idea.

lol, thanks for your help anyway! :)

Since it doesn't look like the OP is coming back...

She actually typed it wrong. It should read:

1
11
21
1211
111221

and so on.

The answer is obtained by writing out numerically what you see in the line above. Hence:

1
11 (One 1)
21 (Two 1)
1211 (One 2, One 1)

And so on.

And you who seek to know me,
know that the seeking and yearning
will avail you not,
unless you know the Mystery:
for if that which you seek,
you find not within yourself,
you will never find it without.

:'O <---this is me in awe.

Cool! We need another riddle now though I think. :)

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?


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Signatures are annoying, I refuse to have one.

Charcoal?

Sure thing! Your turn.