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(Message started by: wolfiewolfie on Jul 19^th, 2009, 11:43pm)

Title: Card Guessing
Post by wolfiewolfie on Jul 19^th, 2009, 11:43pm

This one more than likely wont work, but if it does be honest and tell me :P You have to do this one in your head and dont change it halfway through! And dont look at the hidden bit before reading the whole thing!
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Ok, so imagine I have laid 4 cards out infront of you face down so that I cannot see them.
They are the four Queens, and I do not know which one is where.

I ask you to pick either Red or Black.
(Chose which color in your head)

Then I ask you to pick a suite (If you said black, it is out of clubs or spades, if you said red, it is out of hearts and diamonds)

The card you picked was [hide]Queen of Diamonds[/hide]

Title: Re: Card Guessing
Post by towr on Jul 20^th, 2009, 12:42am

[hide]I had picked the queen of spades.
I would expect, though, most people would pick queen of hearts, rather than diamonds.[/hide]

Title: Re: Card Guessing
Post by cheesepuff on Jul 20^th, 2009, 2:51am

[hide]Spades for me too. But I used to play Hearts so it's habit.[/hide]

Title: Re: Card Guessing
Post by Ronno on Jul 20^th, 2009, 4:55am

I picked [hide]Queen of Hearts[/hide]

Title: Re: Card Guessing
Post by wolfiewolfie on Jul 20^th, 2009, 3:19pm

on 07/20/09 at 00:42:30, towr wrote:

[hide]I had picked the queen of spades.
I would expect, though, most people would pick queen of hearts, rather than diamonds.[/hide]

I would think the same too, however doing this physically 8/10 people chose QoD.

Title: Re: Card Guessing
Post by Grimbal on Jul 26^th, 2009, 8:10pm

[hide]Funnily, I also thought heart would be preferred, and I chose spade. Maybe the explanations "(If you said black, it is out of clubs or spades, if you said red, it is out of hearts and diamonds)" somehow change the preference.
Now that I think of it, I didn't first chose the color. I read the instructions first, then determined you just need to choose a suit, and I chose spade. So it doesn't really count.[/hide]

Title: Re: Card Guessing
Post by raven on Sep 17^th, 2009, 7:45pm

I choose color then suite: QoC for me.

Title: Re: Card Guessing
Post by Noke Lieu on Sep 23^rd, 2009, 12:59am

http://xkcd.com/628/

small sample, but I noticed a lack of clubs.
qos as well... felt led by the red or Black (echo in my mind of ack ack ack ack )

Title: Re: Card Guessing
Post by victorpride on Mar 2^nd, 2010, 12:55pm

yep I picked diamonds :) crazy