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What number would you pick?


I can't imagine how terrifying it would be to have to make a choice like that..something so trivial that will decide if you live or die.

Between 1 and 31 what number would you pick for your answer? 7 is the first one that popped in my head so I probably would have just gone with my gut. There would be nothing worse than switching at the last minute and finding out you were right before you second guessed yourself. If someone else chose 7 though and I had to pick a different number, then I would just bump it up to 8.

this is your life and it is ending one minute at a time

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Just caught this on Netflix last night. I too had 7 pop in my head. I think because you always hear about Lucky number 7. If I had to choose another I'd probably go with the opposite and choose 13. Unlucky 13 lol.

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7

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I would just make sure that I was the last person to call out a number. As long as you pick a number inbetween the ones the other two people pick you would survive.

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There was no right answer

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The best strategy in that case will be to pick after the others a number between the two chosen before you. This works for any choice involving more than two people. Statistically [1] though between 0 and 20 the most popular "random" number is 17 (~20%) followed by 7 (~14%). But indeed 7 comes pretty often.

[1] http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/02/05/is-17-the-most-random-number/

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? Wasn't that true only for the IQ question ? The number question didn't have any rules attached to it or do I remember me wrong? Btw I too thought of 7 first and would have answered that due to the common "lucky nmbr 7" saying.
Finally - how would you do then if the ones before you picked the same number, as in the movie? Statistics only apply fully under circumstances where all other factors are eliminated. That wasn't really the case here...

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Between 1 and 31 what number would you pick for your answer?
Well, you already screwed up. The question was a number between 1 and 33.

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11

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17 seems about right to me

7 - no, that feels odd

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