Alex Reid

Bizarrely, I found OTTFFSSEN scrawled on my arm after a night of drinking and socializing. While many friends are sure this is a sign of madness, I am happily amused to break my own riddle.

Despite being incredibly blotto, I found that all English numbers can only start with one of six English letters (O T F S E N). There is One; Two, Three, Ten; Four & Five; Six & Seven; Eight & Eleven and Nine. After that it simply replicates with Twelve & Thirteen.. Twenty & Thirty.. and One hundred.

The only word that these unique letters make up is “soften” – according to magswordfinder.com.

It may not mean anything, but the presence of “six” letters does.

Six recurring nines appear in the decimal places 762 through 767 of the transcendental pi. Nines are absolutely the top number, not just because it’s the highest single number, but becaue every number is evenly divisible by nine if and only if the iterative sum of its digits reduces to 9. This is equivalent to saying a number is divisible by 9 if and only if its decimal digit total is divisible by 9.