An Eye Test.

[stewey]

This is quite interesting:

Count every "F" in the following text:



FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.....

How many do you get?

[gen2]

Ah! Six as a Carrot

[stewey]

I don't get the connection between 6 and a carrot.

[boxtops]

Try it in the hostelry tonight, stewey!

[AlwaysConfused]

looked thrice and can still only see 3!

[Tilly2]

Write it down and highlight the Fs, AC.

[excelsior-1]

Stewey ...... carrot is 6 letters

[factor-fiction]

6

[Tilly2]

You're a bit late, factor.

[factor-fiction]

Yes, I'm rater late. It just came up on latest posts and I can't see existing answers unless I remember to tab down to check.

I have quite a stock of maths based mind reading tricks, but one simple one that nearly always works when I do supply work is to ask the cockiest looking boy in the room to give me a number between 1 and 100. The cocky lad thinks for a second then smirks and gives me his number. Then, 9* times out of 10 I can, without writing anything, produce a large piece of paper from my pocket which bears his number written in words. What do you think the number is?

(*If you're wondering what happens on the 1 in 10 times I'm wrong, I don't reveal the sheet and simply use his number to start another trick)

[Teddio]

Working backwards I get 6.

[excelsior-1]

69 i'll bet

[factor-fiction]

Yep. Usually everyone is so shocked that I can move quickly onto a proper maths trick and avoid any discussion of the number's significance

[factor-fiction]

Sorry I deviated slightly, stewey. Thanks for reminding me of this F one- I will add back to my list

[lady-janine]

6