Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/26/pick-a-number-and-ill-gues.html
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The way this works came to me pretty intuitively, but it’s cool nonetheless, and I enjoyed his extrapolation of this principle to things we may perceive as synchronicity. Which is funny, because I was just talking about a very strange synchronicity I experienced recently with a colleague a few hours before watching this video… 
hahah!
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Thirty six. Seventeen. Nine. Forty eight. A hundred and three.
A million. Seven million and seven. Sixty seven. Nine hundred and five…
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Is there a text version? I can’t stand 18 minutes of this cringe-guy for something that could probably be explained in 30 seconds of text.
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Here you go:
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I only watched the part with the clock, but he never did guess which number I picked… he only guessed what number I ended up on…
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Yeah, I made a spreadsheet.
Spoiler: After the third round, everyone is on One
Bonus: Unlike English, which converges on One after 3 rounds, Spanish converges on Diez after 5 rounds
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Nicely done, that’s Numberwang! I’ve always struggled to get it but you managed on the first try.
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Thank you!
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