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I can't help but wonder if we've seen it before. I do know however it seems to be entirely made from booleans! I can't remember any booleans?!?!?!

true
true false true true
true false true false true
true false false true false true true true false true true
true true false true true false false true false false true true true false true false true
true false false true true false false false false true true true false false true false false true true

I'm almost positive this is a known pattern, but maybe I'm wrong? Do any of you know the pattern, and can you confirm if it's been here before?

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  • And none of that's meta. Everything in the puzzle is important. – warspyking Sep 01 '15 at 16:16
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    @Deusovi I would call it a duplicate, but I would vote to close the other one, as I think this is the better one. – GentlePurpleRain Sep 01 '15 at 17:05
  • @GentlePurpleRain: I was under the impression that duplicate status was always resolved in favor of the earlier one. – Deusovi Sep 01 '15 at 17:10
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    @Deusovi, I thought I remembered a meta discussion on that, where the suggestion was that the better question should be kept (what if someone posts a two-liner with no formatting and spelling mistakes, and someone else later posts a puzzle with a similar premise, but weaves it into an excellent story and obviously puts a lot of work into it?), but I can't seem to find it now. – GentlePurpleRain Sep 01 '15 at 17:20
  • @Deusovi I've posted a new meta question. – GentlePurpleRain Sep 01 '15 at 17:29
  • @Deusovi This is not a duplicate it's a variation. If you call this a duplicate you may as well close almost all Monty Hall related problems, and Knights and Knaves, etc. – warspyking Sep 01 '15 at 17:39
  • @warspyking: No, it's a duplicate except slightly encoded. I would also vote to close the Monty Hall problem even if it was rot13d and presented as a "break the code and THEN answer" question. – Deusovi Sep 01 '15 at 20:08
  • @Deusovi The "original" asks for the next 3 numbers. This questions asks for you to figure out the puzzle itself, and then determine if it's a known puzzle on Puzzling.SE. Sounds like a variation! – warspyking Sep 01 '15 at 22:01
  • @warspyking Not different enough to not be considered a duplicate, in my opinion. – Deusovi Sep 01 '15 at 22:03
  • @Deusovi I think your mind wandered, did you mean variation? – warspyking Sep 01 '15 at 22:59
  • @warspyking: No, I meant duplicate. Note the double negative - the phrasing was probably a bit too unclear. – Deusovi Sep 01 '15 at 23:16
  • @Deusovi Oh my gosh I see it now. I can't believe I didn't notice that haha – warspyking Sep 01 '15 at 23:42
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    I think you should also all note that the other puzzle was posed by *the same person*. It's even a meta-duplicate! – Ian MacDonald Sep 02 '15 at 00:22
  • @Ian MacDonald Lol, it's not a duplicate! It's a variation! – warspyking Sep 02 '15 at 01:13

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If we convert the sequence to binary, with true=1 and false=0...

1
1011
10101
10010111011
11011001001110101
1001100001110010011

Then we convert from binary to decimal...

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211

We see that the sequence is

The age old sequence where each number describes the count of digits in the previous number, so the value after 1 is "one one", or 11.

Has it been here before?

Yeah, it has. This isn't the original form, but it's another warspyking classic, which is really just as good.

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