tc17’s Boring Book Mystery

Did you ever find your pet refusing to read a book saying that it’s boring? And no matter how many times you force your pet to read it, he still finds it uninteresting? Well, your pet finds these books “boring” because of the amount of characters in your pet’s name and also because of the amount of characters in a book’s title. tc17, a Neopets player who was hacked and quit neopets, found two formulas which tells you if your pet will find a book boring or not.

SpankaroonieTwo says, “That is like such a boring book!”

Let “m” equal your pet’s character length:

Formula 1: (m+1)*2
Formula 2: ((m+1)*2)+1

If you count the number of characters in a book’s title (including spaces!), and it equals the answer to one of the equations above, then your pet will find it boring. Confused? Let’s put it this way. Let’s say your pet’s name was SpankaroonieTwo. She has 15 characters in her name. Plug 15 for m, and it should look like this:

Formula 1: (15+1)*2
Formula 2: ((15+1)*2)+1

After computing both equations, you should get 32 for the first equation (15 + 1 = 16; 16*2 = 32) and 33 for the second equation (15 + 1 = 16; 16 * 2 = 32; 32 + 1 = 33). So what exactly does this mean? Books with 32 or 33 characters in their name, your pet will find boring. Let’s see what books have these amounts of characters.

Uh-oh! It seems as if SpankaroonieTwo finds two books boring: Skyward an Eyries Guide to Flying (33 characters) and Secrets of the Desert Paint Brush (33 characters).

Note
For your pet to read a book that it finds “boring”, simply change the language on the yellow search bar and read the book.