OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Independent Verification

This seemed very funny to me, when I thought of it during the haze of waking up this morning. However, I need independent verification.

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Thwarting a magician in my sleep

“I will read your mind!” boasted the mentalist. “You can pick a colour, or a flower, or an element of the periodic table, write it down, show it to the audience and seal it in an envelope. Then I will read your mind and predict what it says! In fact, you could write any English word, and I will predict it.”

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Counting Windows

Once I dreamt that someone told me a very funny riddle. […] “Cool,” I thought, “Independent verification! It really is funny!”

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Ice-Cream Flavours and Personal Bests

As I sat on my living room floor, a strange woman with bedraggled hair came up to the glass back door. She simply opened it without knocking and started striding in.

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Name Game

The scenario is that you work in the mailroom of a large company, with very odd HR policies. The puzzle is to resolve the mistyped address labels.

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