Dear Mrs Noughtfear,
Thank you. I'll be patient. But while I wait, I've been staring at the blocks. The actual blocks, with the colours. And I think the Dum Sums were staring right back at me the whole time.
The 3x3 with the missing figure. There was a 9 hiding in the middle. That's me. And the middle row is 1, 9, 2. That's my birthday. 19/2. Sitting right there in the centre of your blocks. The whole thing adds up to 36 and 3 + 6 = 9. Dum Baby Sums.
Then the two 5x5s on top. One adds up to 105, the other to 147. And 105 + 147 = 252. That's my Little Bee. The top half of your board is me, Mrs Noughtfear. Dum Sum: 9.
The bottom half is 78 + 117 = 195. And 78 divided by 13 is 6. And 117 divided by 13 is 9. Even the ratio is the palindrome pair.
252 does the Kaprekar thing: 522 - 225 = 297. Then 297 + 792 = 1089.
195 does it too: 951 - 159 = 792. Then 792 + 297 = 1089.
Both halves land on 1089. Both paths use 297 and 792 which are each other backwards. The Dum Sums really do add up backwards.
The bottom rows go 35, 34, 33, 44, 49. Row 3 is 33. 33 years old, or 33 years of story. And that's the only row missing both 6 and 9. And 308 is sitting right there in the bottom left. Row 5 starts 3, 0, 8.
But Mrs Noughtfear, then I started looking at the colours. And I think the colours are talking too.
Every yellow tile on top is a 9. All six of them. No exceptions. Yellow is my colour.
Every green tile on top sits in the middle column. The spine. The fold line where the palindrome bends.
The colour rows on top are palindromes too. RRGRR, BYGYB, BBBBB. The bottom half isn't. System on top, data below. Same idea as the numbers.
And every single 3 on the whole board is yellow. All four of them, all in the bottom half. S in QUEENSLAND, coloured in my colour. The Bad Threes hiding in Baby Number Nine's colours.
But something that really really got my attention was the 9 in my birthday row. It's blue. Every other 9 up top is yellow, but not this one. I think it's because here the 9 means a date, not a name. You changed the colour because the meaning changed. Am I figsuring that right?
I tried adding up all the digits by colour across the whole board. Red = 112, Blue = 109, Green = 70, Yellow = 156. Dum Sums: 4, 1, 7, 3. In QUEENSLAND that's N, E, D, S.
SEND. Or ENDS. The colour sums spell words.
Red never is on the digits 0, 3, or 9. Those missing digits in the other QUEENSLAND mapping spell Q, E, D. Proof completed? That felt like something you'd leave behind.
And the bottom right yellow is missing 1, 4, 7. That spells END.
27 red tiles, Dum Sum 9. 24 blue tiles, Dum Sum 6. The palindrome pair is in how many tiles you coloured.
I see things now. But I know I'm still pretty much Dum. I want to build my own blocks, but I'll wait for now. I think you're already trying to show me how to. I'm paying attention to the changes on the websites. Lady Melissa, noted.
And I know you're building something with that 100 digit number. Something that jumbles and unjumbles. Something the smarties will never crack because they think too hard and not backwards enough.
I'll wait for you to show me. But while I wait, I'm practicing. Dum Sums until I can see them without counting. QUEENSLAND letters until they're second nature. Times tables your way, with the colours. I want to be ready when the 100 digits come.
The sun goes dark on the 17th. I turn 33 on the 19th.
BabyNumberNine
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On Sunday, 02/15/26 at 08:52 mum@bigsum.com wrote:
Very good. I am in process of explaining how to create 100 digit number, jumble it, then unjumble in minutes easily but impossible for smarties, so please be patient, Lady Melissa
On 2026-02-14 16:46, BabyNumberNine wrote:
Dear Mrs Noughtfear,
So you are mum@bigsum.com aka Mrs Noughtfear,
I've been studying the three grids. GoodNumbers, BeeNumbers, RainbowNumbers. I think I'm starting to fig out how they talk to each other. How THREEBEE absorbs everything. How GOOD always wins in the end. And how RAINBOW numbers are the ones that sit on the diagonal and don't go wonky.
May I show you my understanding with a challenge I have for you? Your own Number Challenge, backwards.
022456779
You made the rules so you should be able to crack this one with pencil, paper and a calculator. But I'm not as cruel as you are with your puzzles so here's a few clues.
1. The Little Bee is a palindrome. It's GOOD and it's THREEBEE.
2. The month is TWOBEE.
3. RED + GREEN + MAGICMONEY = YELLOW BACKWARDS. Always.
When you fig it out, pay attention to the date. Then think about today's date. Then think about yours.
Mrs Noughtfear, do you see a pattern? And patterns are our whole thing, ain't it? And coincidences? Do they ever exist?
Dum BabyNumberNine is still pretty much Dum. Had to take Sum time to really think about these Dum Sums... but it finally started adding up backwards! BabyNumberNine just learning how to count. BabyNumberNine will spend Sum time studying, searching for all missing figs and dates; but will always check for emails.
Hope you get back to me soon.
BabyNumberNine
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On Friday, 02/13/26 at 17:51 BabyNumberNine <babynumbernine@pm.me> wrote:
Dear Mrs Noughtfear,
Those two dates I couldn't fig out? I wasn't figsure? Found them.
6/8/2003 -> Nineapple Pineapple disappears on the first day of Missing Persons Week, Gold Coast. Left behind 33 children and vanished into thin air with the Dreamworld Helicopter.
10/2/2013 -> Alison Bernard, 23, Aboriginal mother of two, disappears in Far North Queensland. Still a cold case.
All Seven Dates! No more missing figs!
BabyNumberNine
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On Friday, 02/13/26 at 17:30 BabyNumberNine <babynumbernine@pm.me> wrote:
Dear Mrs Noughtfear,
I found the Missing Figs!
They were behind The Six the whole time, hiding in the Book of Numbers on The Wall of Bricks. Nine hidden digits sitting right there under everyone's nose:
9 7 7
3 0 8
7 7 0
The middle row is 308. March 8. 2014. The day the plane went missing. And The Nought is sitting right in the center of it all.
The Seven Dates, the ones the figs went missing on:
25/8/1980 -> Eight Mile Plains Special School opens, the institution referenced throughout the story.
25/8/1992 -> The date on the NumberChallenge page, your "Rosetta Stone"
6/8/2003 -> ...I'm still working on this one...
7/12/2003 -> Daniel Morcombe, 13 years old, abducted from a bus stop on the Sunshine Coast
10/2/2013 -> ...I'm still working on this one...
8/3/2014 -> Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanishes over the South China Sea
13/3/2014 -> MH370 search officially becomes largest in aviation history
The day numbers: 25, 25, 6, 7, 10, 8, 13. Put them together: 25256710813. That's 11 digits. That's the Eleven Figs.
Now.. you asked me what the 15-digit number from babynumbernine is.
THE MISSING PLANE. Each letter's position in the alphabet, reduced to a single digit:
T=2 H=8 E=5 M=4 I=9 S=1 S=1 I=9 N=5 G=7 P=7 L=3 A=1 N=5 E=5
285491195773155
And here's how it circles back to 1089. 370, the flight number, minus 073 backwards = 297. Then 297 + 792 backwards = 1089. The Missing Plane always comes back to Baby Number Nine.
Did my Dum Sums finally add up backwards? I think so, yeah!
BabyNumberNine