Math is FUN!!

Amaze your children. Astound your wife. Impress your co-workers with your awesome math skills, skills better than nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills....



1. Have the person pick any number.

2. Have the person double the number.

3. Have the person add six.

4. Halve the number.

5. Tell the person to subtract the original number from this number.

6. Tell the person that the number is now three.

7. Watch the amazement expressed on the person's face.

8. Said person will now refuse to compete against you since they are such a loser and you are the boss.



It works every time.



Whoops, I forgot to add one minor step, the person had better not be your wife, else, when you get to step 8, your life, as you know, is now over. A husband can no longer be the boss any more, especially since women got the power to pray in General Conference.



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Good grief - another memorization project - arrghhhh! Actually, that's a very trick. I will definitely try it at work - on my boss.

Mine is better:



Look at any federal budget over the past 20 years. ANY. Compare it to revenues. It will be negative! Amazing eh?

urroner wrote:
Amaze your children. Astound your wife. Impress your co-workers with your awesome math skills, skills better than nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills....



1. Have the person pick any number.

2. Have the person double the number.

3. Have the person add six.

4. Halve the number.

5. Tell the person to subtract the original number from this number.

6. Tell the person that the number is now three.

7. Watch the amazement expressed on the person's face.

8. Said person will now refuse to compete against you since they are such a loser and you are the boss.



It works every time.



Whoops, I forgot to add one minor step, the person had better not be your wife, else, when you get to step 8, your life, as you know, is now over. A husband can no longer be the boss any more, especially since women got the power to pray in General Conference.



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There's really no trick to it. Half of six is three, and all of the other steps just cancel out the original number. Oh, I ruined it. I'm sorry. ;) :evil: :evil: :evil:

Cougarfan87 wrote:

Amaze your children. Astound your wife. Impress your co-workers with your awesome math skills, skills better than nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills....



1. Have the person pick any number.

2. Have the person double the number.

3. Have the person add six.

4. Halve the number.

5. Tell the person to subtract the original number from this number.

6. Tell the person that the number is now three.

7. Watch the amazement expressed on the person's face.

8. Said person will now refuse to compete against you since they are such a loser and you are the boss.



It works every time.



Whoops, I forgot to add one minor step, the person had better not be your wife, else, when you get to step 8, your life, as you know, is now over. A husband can no longer be the boss any more, especially since women got the power to pray in General Conference.



:whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

There's really no trick to it. Half of six is three, and all of the other steps just cancel out the original number. Oh, I ruined it. I'm sorry. ;) :evil: :evil: :evil:

That is what makes it so funny. Most people will figure it out in a heartbeat and simply rool their eyes, so the trick is to do something unexpected. Before asking the question, tell everybody you are writing down a number on a piece of paper, write the number down in front of them, but so they can't see the number. Put the number in a pocket. After telling the person to subtract the original number, say that you are magnificient prognosticator and was able to predict which of the infinite answers which could have been derived, that your toady, naw, your lackey...naw, your doormat, yes that's the right title, has chosen, and then pull the sheet with the number three written on it and flourish it in front of them like it was some grand deed.