Showing posts with label guess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guess. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Guess Your Age Trick Revealed
Guess Your Age Trick Revealed
My mom asked me to explain to her this "miraculous" trick she received by email and was shocked to discover is capable to expose her age.
Try it - it will guess your age as well:
- What is your favorite day of the week? For Monday - pick number 1, for Tuesday - 2, Wednesday - 3, Thursday - 4, ..., Sunday - 7.
- Multiply the number you got above by 50.
- Add to the result 44.
- Multiply it by 200.
- If you already had your birthday this year, add to your number 109. If you did not have your birthday this year, add 108.
- Deduct the year you were born from the resulting number.
Look at the long result. Here is the trick:
First digit of this number is your favorite day of the week.
Last two (or one) digits of this number is ... your age!
This trick expires at the end of 2009. And it is much easier than is sounds.
Here is explanation how it works:
- You pick number N, where 1 <= N <= 7
- 50 x N
- 50 x N + 44
- 200 x (50 x N + 44) = 10,000 x N + 8,800
- 10,000 x N = N0,000 (where N is the digit corresponding to your favorite day of the week)
- If it is 2009, most probably your birthday this year already passed. Add 109 to the number above. You got: N0,000 + 8,800 + 109 = N8,909
- Look at the resulting number: N8,909
See how the first digit is exactly the digit your picked at the beginning. Anything you pick N to be (from 1 to 7), it will be the first digit of the resulting number. Here is the first part of the trick. - Now, remember that if you take 2009 and deduct the year you were born, you get your age. If you take 3009 or 8009 and deduct the year you were born, the last digits will still show you age. When you deduct your age from the number you got above - N8,909 - the last two digits are still showing your age. This is the second part of the trick for you.
- Now you are ready to play the trick on anyone around you.
But beware: if your grandma is lucky to be older than 99, and you want to play this trick on her, you will need to change it a bit. You will need 3 last digits, and not two. Right now for a 100 year old person who was born in 1909, you take N8,909 and deduct 1,909, you get N7,000. Last three digits will of course compliment your grandma, but wont do the trick. You need this 000 be 100. So, add one more step: (7) and ask her to add 100 to the resulting number that she got.
Why the trick expires in 2009? Because in 2010 you would need to add 110/109 instead of 109/108 in the step before last. You need your "magic" resulting number (N8,909) to end with the current calendar year digits, be it 09 or 10.
But for the next two weeks you dont need to worry about it. Just copy the steps above and spook your friends and relatives at the Holiday party.
Available link for download
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
guess what
guess what
Im doing my first craft show ever!
if youre in the Kansas City area I hope youll stop by and say hi :)
more than 100 Hallmark employees will display and offer their personal artwork for sale. a wide array of artwork will be available including textiles, childrens tents, sculptures, art quilts, jewelry, oil and watercolor paintings, and photography. these pieces are the personal work of the participants, created outside of their jobs with Hallmark.
admission is free
and free parking is available in the crown center parking garages
(the one on the east side of grand is the closest to the square)
in addition there will be live music by anchovy fisherman from 11-3 and food/drink/bathrooms are
easily accessible at panera or in crown center for your convenience.
Available link for download
Friday, February 3, 2017
Guess Who
Guess Who
If you were ever seeking the culprit for racial profiling, you might want to take a look back into one of our favorite childhood board games. When skin color is one of the major defining characteristics standing between guessing the winning character and admitting Guess Who? defeat, it was a key tactic in the art of deductive reasoning. That said, if you happened to have one of the racial minority characters as your card, you were often out of luck--your partner asks, “Is your person white?” You say no, and they’re down to a quarter of the options. Right or wrong, this type of profiling clearly offered its own rewards.For those of us who were highly experienced Guess Whoers, we knew all the basic profiling strategies. Gender was another popular choice, as the game contains a highly skewed ratio of men to women. As if women didn’t have enough to worry about, they now faced undue discimination and minority status on the Guess Who? board. And if it was a woman unlucky enough to be wearing a hat, forget it--you’d be figured out in 10 seconds flat. Game over.
Residual wide-ranging social implications aside, Guess Who? was beloved by children of the 90s for its simplicity. In contrast to its hard-to-assemble board game counterparts like Mousetrap and 13 Dead End Drive, Guess Who? was an easy way to engage kids with relatively no set-up. After the initial drudgery of clicking all of the flippable cards into place, you simply turned them up, grabbed a card, and began the game.
On the negative side, however, those 90s ads could be a bit misleading. So misleading, in fact, that manufacturer Milton Bradley was forced to include a disclaimer to alert gullible children that “Game cards do not actually talk.” Apparently children were so delighted by the sight of cards conversing with one another that the inanimate cards seemed pretty boring in comparison. What good is a game card if it won’t make witty asides to its row-mates?
For those of us who owned the game or had frequent access to it, the images of characters like David and Bernard are forever ingrained in our brains. So much so, in fact, that I’ve occasionally met people to whom my initial reaction is, “Wow, you look a lot like (insert cartoon Guess Who? character here).” This exchange is not only awkward but sometimes also leads to the person leaping to the immediate defense of their prized moustache, goatee, or bowler hat. Whatever the resemblance, it usually isn’t especially flattering: Guess Who? characters are not especially known for their good looks.
As far as the actual game, Guess Who? is arguably somewhat educational in value. It teaches logic, deductive reasoning skills, visual clues, grouping, and how not to ask stupid questions. That last skill certainly comes in handy, though Guess Who? only managed to develop it with yes-and-no response questions. For those of us prone to open-ended inquiries, we’re on our own. Unless we need to know whether someone is bald or wears glasses, it’s going to be tough.
Guess Who? was a fleeting diversion in that kids could only play it for so long. Children tend to be pretty sore losers, so among younger players temper tantrums were inevitably thrown over losses. Outcry over alleged unfairness usually broke out after a good-sported round or two, but it was usually pretty fun while it lasted.
It may have taught us to oversimplify and break people down into groups using visual cues, but we never thought of it that way. We were all just hoping our opponent ended up with one of the few minority women cards to ease some of our questioning pressure. In fact, Most of us still don’t know how to describe someone accurately unless they are wearing a hat or have some defining facial hair-type feature. Thanks a lot, Guess Who. If anyone we know ever shaves or removes their headwear, were back at square one on recognition.
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