Wooden chips

This is an old classic.
If it has been posted here before I apologize but in that case here is an encore:

Ten wooden chips has been labeled 1 to 10.
These were laid out like this:
8, 5, 4, 9.
What will be the next chip to be laid out?

Please - do not spoil the fun for the others, don't present the explanation, just tell what is the next chip will be.

Originally posted by FabianFnas
This is an old classic.
If it has been posted here before I apologize but in that case here is an encore:

Ten wooden chips has been labeled 1 to 10.
These were laid out like this:
8, 5, 4, 9.
What will be the next chip to be laid out?

Please - do not spoil the fun for the others, don't present the explanation, just tell what is the next chip will be.

10.

Oops. Or 8. Damn. My idea won't work.

..., 1, 7, 6.

Good puzzle, though quite old.

Originally posted by Fat Lady
..., 1, 7, 6.

Good puzzle, though quite old.

Originally posted by FabianFnas
You are so right, FatLady.

I thought actually that this puzzle was more known.

Now we are two that know why the chips is laid out in this way.
Is there any more?

Try some lateral thinking...

Originally posted by howardbradley
I'm surprised that *you* think that is the correct ordering.

howardbradley had mailed me the correct answer and a correct explanation. Well done!

And well done also that he didn't spoil the fun for the others trying to solve the puzzle.

Okey, this is the complete order of which the numbered wooden chips are laid out.

8, 4, 5, 9, 1, 7, 6, 10, 3, 2

I know two of you knows the rule of order.
What about the rest of you?

Tomorrow I will give a further hint...

11 - 20 would give you
18, 11, 15, 14 ... :-)

Originally posted by john777
11 - 20 would give you
18, 11, 15, 14 ... :-)

Originally posted by FabianFnas
Correct, totally correct.
Then there are three, besides me, who knows.

I gave the very same problem in a Mensa Sweden meeting, but then I had to write the numbers in this order:
1, 5, 4, 9, 6, 7, 10, 3, 2, 8.
And, yes, they solved it very easily. Perhaps they had seen it before.

Is this a hint? Yes, perhaps it is.

Wouldn't the 8 be at the start at your Mensa group?

Originally posted by JYD
Wouldn't the 8 be at the start at your Mensa group?

one en/ett
two två
three tre
four fyra
five fem
six sex
seven sju
eight åtta
nine nio
ten tio