Can you count?

[Megaton Games]

Great!
Here is the script variant:
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[Argyle King]

I see where I miscounted.

I sketched it out with a thick marker. Misread the lines of my own handwriting.

I had the idea of how it worked.

 

[kigmatzomat]

Below are the glyphs for numbers in my upcoming Weavesong world (the language is called Logos).

Its a fun puzzle on a forum and a way to add some hidden bits to a game book for the addicts, but unless its an unlicensed Professor Layton TTRPG, it should never be something a player has to learn for actual play.

 

[aramis erak]

Below are the glyphs for numbers in my upcoming Weavesong world (the language is called Logos). There is a logic in the glyphs. Can you solve the question mark?

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Your block digits are going to be hell on dyslexics...
1/2/16 are the same shape in different mirrorings.
4/8 are mirrored.
5/10/20 are mirrored
7/11 are mirrored
13/14 are mirrored.
6/9 are mirrored

It's set up perfectly to make math hard for dyslexics.

I'll note that real world cultures use/have used bases 8, 10, 12, 20, alternating 12 and 20, and 60...
but those using 20 usually use compound symbols... 1's & 5's for base 20. It even got reinvented by Alaskan Inupiaq speaking students recently derived the "Katuvik Numerals"... Maya had proper place-based base 20; Aztec didn't, but shares the same 1-19 symbols, and adds counters for 20, 400, and 8000...
All of them, for the 1-19 symbols, use a 1's symbol up to 4 times (Maya/Aztec used dots, Inupiaq uses slanted verticals \ to \/\/) then a 5 symbol (Maya/Aztec a bar; Inupiaq a hoizontal slash); additional 1-4 and 5's until 19 (Maya/Aztec 3 bars under 4 dots; Inupiaq 3 mostly horizontal slashes above 4 mostly vertical ones). Katuvik and Maya both have a 0 symbol. All three are orally base 20 systems. There are others; many European languages 1st Millenium CE used base 20 as 1's and 10's orally, and roman numerals for writing...

Many Eastern European languages used alphabetic characters as numbers... Slavonic and classical Greek both use the first 9 letters as 1-9, the next 9 as 10-90, the next 9 as 100-900... but wait, we all know greek only has 24 letters... which is why the archaic digamma (6, between epsilon and zeta), Qoppa (90, between pi and rho), and sampi (900, after omega); it also puts a marker after a number to indicate it is, in fact, a number and not a word. Slavonic has an amplicity of letters, and has distinct decorators for thousands, to millions... but the number order is jumbled because it's retained from the greek roots...
(ancient greek, by contrast, has a discrete 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000, 50000 counters, not unlike Rome...)

 

[Megaton Games]

Your block digits are going to be hell on dyslexics...
1/2/16 are the same shape in different mirrorings.
4/8 are mirrored.
5/10/20 are mirrored
7/11 are mirrored
13/14 are mirrored.
6/9 are mirrored

It's set up perfectly to make math hard for dyslexics.

I'll note that real world cultures use/have used bases 8, 10, 12, 20, alternating 12 and 20, and 60...
but those using 20 usually use compound symbols... 1's & 5's for base 20. It even got reinvented by Alaskan Inupiaq speaking students recently derived the "Katuvik Numerals"... Maya had proper place-based base 20; Aztec didn't, but shares the same 1-19 symbols, and adds counters for 20, 400, and 8000...
All of them, for the 1-19 symbols, use a 1's symbol up to 4 times (Maya/Aztec used dots, Inupiaq uses slanted verticals \ to \/\/) then a 5 symbol (Maya/Aztec a bar; Inupiaq a hoizontal slash); additional 1-4 and 5's until 19 (Maya/Aztec 3 bars under 4 dots; Inupiaq 3 mostly horizontal slashes above 4 mostly vertical ones). Katuvik and Maya both have a 0 symbol. All three are orally base 20 systems. There are others; many European languages 1st Millenium CE used base 20 as 1's and 10's orally, and roman numerals for writing...

Many Eastern European languages used alphabetic characters as numbers... Slavonic and classical Greek both use the first 9 letters as 1-9, the next 9 as 10-90, the next 9 as 100-900... but wait, we all know greek only has 24 letters... which is why the archaic digamma (6, between epsilon and zeta), Qoppa (90, between pi and rho), and sampi (900, after omega); it also puts a marker after a number to indicate it is, in fact, a number and not a word. Slavonic has an amplicity of letters, and has distinct decorators for thousands, to millions... but the number order is jumbled because it's retained from the greek roots...
(ancient greek, by contrast, has a discrete 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000, 50000 counters, not unlike Rome...)

thx for the info!

 

[DEFCON 1]

I also got 61. Although I also think the glyph for 20 is incorrect because to me it is breaking its own internal pattern.

0-3 was the top row flags in a pattern of empty/left flag/right flag/double flag

Then we get the next pattern of the middle row of flags going left/right/double flag plus the top row pattern:

4-7 is middle left flag plus top row empty/left/right/double
8-11 is middle right flag plus top row empty/left/right/double
12-15 is middle double flag plus top row empty/left/right/double

Then we drop to the bottom row and should be duplicating the pattern established in the middle row of left/right/double. Thus:

16-19 bottom left flag plus top row empty/left/right/double
20-23 bottom right flag plus top row empty/left/right/double
24-27 bottom double flag plus top row empty/left/right/double

16-19 confirms the duplication of the middle row pattern, but then the glyph in #20 breaks it. Rather than moving to bottom right like it should (in keeping with the middle row pattern), it instead jumps to bottom left + middle left, which really shouldn't happen until much later in the sequence.

Going further... as we start with 28 we would have to make a decision as to which row (middle or bottom) maintains a consistent extra flag while the other row does their 12 number left/right/double sequence again. You could either do the extra flag on middle left OR bottom left. Thus they would be either:

28-31 middle left + bottom left plus top row empty/left/right/double
32-35 middle left + bottom right plus top row empty/left/right/double
36-39 middle left + bottom double plus top row empty/left/right/double

OR

28-31 bottom left + middle left plus top row empty/left/right/double
32-35 bottom left + middle right plus top row empty/left/right/double
36-39 bottom left + middle double plus top row empty/left/right/double

And then whichever row we chose for the extra flag, we would then move the extra flag to the right side of that row and repeat for the 12 flag pattern #40-51 and then finally do the extra double flags and repeat the pattern of 12 for #52-63.

Regardless of which row got the extra flag starting with 28... we would eventually get to the glyph in the original image with the question marks as middle double, bottom double, top left-- which is two away from the final top row pattern. Thus the image is 61, then 62 is middle double, bottom double, top right... and 63 closes out with middle double, middle double, top double.

 

[Alas]

Pretty reminiscent of the Cistercian numeral system...