Magic

[TimberWolf]

Okay, here's one I just made up.

Name a continent beginning and ending in the letter 'A'.

Was it Asia, Africa, America, Antarctica or Australia?

 

[MrRobin]

Hmmm - mines was an Aard-Vark in Bolivia eating Kiwi Fruit

Got amy more for us Xoggoth ?

MATHS FAIL

The trick is that whatever number you choose at the beginning, you will always end up with a country beginning with D

 

[milanbenes]

Yep, apple.

The most interesting bit may be after instruction 4 because any integer (1 to 10) multiplied by 9 and digits are summed will produce 9, so you always get 'd' as the first letter.

ahhhh

that's my mistake I added a few more digets to the number

ok I try again...

ok still works out the same

cockatoo in the dominican republic eating an olive

Milan.

 

[Bunk]

It wouldn't have worked for me either had I gone with Deutschland, which was my first guess that was immediately rejected and replaced by Denmark.

I did think I might be cheating with Deutschland but it was the first thing that popped into my head. Then I switched back to English for dog and grapefruit.

 

[dang65]

any integer (1 to 10) multiplied by 9 and digits are summed will produce 9

That's the old 9 times table trick...

Hold out ten fingers

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Tuck in the finger at the position you want to multiply by nine

e.g. For 3 x 9 tuck in 3rd finger

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2 on the left and 7 on the right

Now, has anyone got a cheat for the 7 times table?

 

[Churchill]

That's the old 9 times table trick...

Hold out ten fingers

||||||||||

Tuck in the finger at the position you want to multiply by nine

e.g. For 3 x 9 tuck in 3rd finger

||.|||||||

2 on the left and 7 on the right

Now, has anyone got a cheat for the 7 times table?

DodgyAgent but then again he has six fingers on each hand.

 

[TimberWolf]

That's the old 9 times table trick...

Hold out ten fingers

||||||||||

Tuck in the finger at the position you want to multiply by nine

e.g. For 3 x 9 tuck in 3rd finger

||.|||||||

2 on the left and 7 on the right

Now, has anyone got a cheat for the 7 times table?

There's one here that does not only 7 but, 6,7,8,9,10 on the fingers too, for multiplying integers >=6 and <=10.

Alternatively, for multiplying by 7, double the number and add half to the tens figure. And add 5 if the original digit was odd.
so 8 * 7 = 16 + 40 = 56, 7 * 7 = 14 + 30 + 5, 123 * 7 = feck it, you do it.

 

[Doggy Styles]

I lost, I couldn't think of a fruit beginning with W.

That was from cow. Which came from Dominican Republic (I only thought of that because I work with a ballet dancer from there, Denmark would have been better).

 

[TimberWolf]

I lost, I couldn't think of a fruit beginning with W.

Gok Wan?

 

[Lockhouse]

Gok Wan?