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Mind Tricks

Post by MilkMan » Sat Dec 24, 2005 2:31 am

Hey maybe you could stick my other mind trick thread into this one. Anyway I've kind of been interested in Mind Tricks lately. I'm gonna triple post now since I'm posting 3 mind tricks and they need their own posts.
Heres one:
Before you scroll down make sure you read this.
This requires you to put your 100% concentration into it. Now before we start, take 3 slow deep breaths. This will make you relaxed................

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Good.

OK, now i want you to do EVERYTHING i say, if you take any short cuts, then it won't work.

Here's what i want you to do:
Say these numbers out allowed and then answer them. For example say "1 + 1 = 2" for "1 + 1 = ?". Now do that for the rest of these too.
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1 + 1 = ?
2 + 2 = ?
4 + 4 = ?
8 + 8 = ?

Now pick a random number between 5-12 ...

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Got it? Now scroll down and see if i guessed it correctly...
































































Was your number 7?


I know how this works too... see if you can figure it out
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Post by MilkMan » Sat Dec 24, 2005 2:32 am

Don't Scroll Down Until you are done doing this!
Say Toast 5 times aloud
Say Toast 5 times in your head
Say Toast 6 times aloud
Say Toast 6 times in your head
Say Toast 7 times aloud
Say Toast 7 times in your head
Say Toast 8 times aloud
Say Toast 8 times in your head



































What goes in a toaster?
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Post by MilkMan » Sat Dec 24, 2005 2:32 am

I think I know why this happens. Try it out [ONLY KEEP SCROLLING ONCE YOU HAVE FINISHED THE STEP YOU ARE ON]:
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98% of all people think of a carrot!
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Post by Silence » Wed May 03, 2006 11:33 pm

Congratulations...all of these work wonderfully.

Okay, so on the first one, you think 7 because 12-5=7 and 5-12=-7.

On the second one, you just keep on thinking and saying toast.

And on the last mind trick, all the arrows on the side of the screen make you think of carrots.

They're pretty simple, but the execution/instructions are better than any method I could have typed up. You're right, you should just have a single thread called "MilkMan's Mind Tricks." They're pointless but fun, which is why I support this.

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Post by DX » Thu May 04, 2006 1:49 am

None of them worked for me! I picked 11, and then picked broccoli.

I think I know why they didn't work for me. I've been reading too much SAT advice, which tells you to ignore answer choices which appear in the problem, [such as an equation involving 5 items and having 5 as an answer choice] and to disengage the answer from references in the problem. I did not make any of the connections to tricks in the tricks, meaning that the SAT stuff is working... :rolleyes:
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Post by Silence » Thu May 04, 2006 2:23 am

Wow, it's actually pretty amazing that some subroutine told you not to pick 7 or carrots. Anyway, I have a couple years before I take the SAT (but I take the PSAT next year).

Can you at least see why people would have chosen each answer? It didn't really take much thinking, but maybe it does for somebody who didn't fall for them. Wait, that doesn't make any sense :rolleyes: ...

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Post by joannaardway » Thu May 04, 2006 8:20 am

I picked 9 (the day of the month I was born on),

a potato (I think I've been on spudtech too long),

and I don't have a toaster (I said "wibble" - I was too confused to say anything else.)

So that's two people it doesn't work on...
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Post by Silence » Fri May 05, 2006 4:41 pm

Hmm...maybe I'm a bit "too" special after all :p .

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How many "F"s are there? Scroll down when you're done...





































































































































































There are six "F"s. Most people only see three because the human mind wants to read the "f" in "of" as a "v."

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Post by Silence » Fri May 05, 2006 5:24 pm

This mind trick is amusing because it's so stupid and pointless: "Shaman."
It's actually quite obvious why it guess your symbol...they think we're thick or something. Scroll down to find out how it works.





































































































No matter what number you choose between 10 and 99, after you perform the other functions on it, you end up with 9. I don't know what they were thinking.

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