Numbers of things
 

My comment in the UFC thread of 12 inches in a foot, etc... reminded me of this list of number related sayings quiz that ran around a few years back. I can't find the original, but here is the one I created as a follow up.

See how many you can figure out.
Example:
26 = L in the A
20,000 = L under the S
Answers:
26 = Letters in the Alphabet
20,000 = Leagues under the Sea

1. 9 = L of a C
2. 4 = Q in a D
3. 7 = S of the A
4. 24 = H of L M
5. 30 = D H S, A, J and N
6. 36 = I in a Y
7. 12 = D of C
8. 7 = D S
9. 13 = D in a B D
10. 3 = T in a T
11. 13 = C in a S
12. 5 = S on the P
13. 14 = D in a F
14. 3 = B of the F G
15. 18 = Y O to V
16. 100 = Y in a C
17. 2 = C in E G
18. 6 = C of the S
19. 4 = H of the A
20. 5 = P on a S
21. 6 = S on a S
22. 1 = the L N
23. 2 = S to E S
24. 31 = F of I C
25. 26 = M in a M
26. 8 = N in an O
27. 27 = B in the H H
28. 4 = S in a D
29. 4 = S of the Y
30. 3 = W M
31. 35 = Y O to be P
32. 6 = S on a C
33. 360 = D in a C
34. 38 = N on a R W
35. 48 = C S in the U S

Extra Credit
A. 1 = P in a P T
B. 500 = M at I
C. 24 = B B in a P

Here's my 1st pass:


1. Lives/Cat
2. Quarters/Dollar
3.
4. Hours/Le Mans
5.
6. Inches/Yard
7. Days/Christmas
8. Deadly/Sins
9.
10. Teaspoons/Tablespoon
11.
12.
13.
14.
15. Years Old/Vote
16. Years/Century
17.
18.
19. Horsemen/Apocalypse
20. Points/Star
21.
22. Loneliest/Number
23. Sides/Every Story
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29. Seasons/Year
30.
31. Years Old/President
32.
33. Degrees/Circle or Compass
34.
35. Contiguous States/United States

A.
B. Miles/Indianapolis
C.

Sperry is a walking spoiler. Black out your answers!

This is a pretty fun game.

My Iphone app tells me all the answers

Apparently, these are called Language Equations or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditloid. And there are hundreds of them some idiomatic or country/region specific. Here are a ton...And there are countless more around the web.

They are really fun until you get stuck and they start to nag at you and thinking harder just makes them more elusive. Then they pop into your head in the middle of lunch or something.

There is a Ditloid iPhone app, or are you just googleing them?

Original 24:

http://www.gamesmagazine-online.com/...nanalysis.html