Game Over
Monday, April 26, 1999 12:27 AM
I've been away from the computer for a while, but I see that Anni guessed the number first. It was -2. It couldn't happen to a nicer person. I'll send you the free signed book with your bumper stickers, Anni.
I am totally out of new books, but the bindery is supposed to have the second edition done in a couple of days. It is the same as the first, but with some typos corrected.
I still have some slightly damaged books of the first edition and we are offering two of them for the price of one which is $19.95. This includes postage in the US. For postage outside of the US add $5. We take all major credit cards.
I have also decided to have a thousand regular bumper stickers made, so I am waiting for them to be finished before I send the transfers of www.freeread.com to those of you who requested it. So everyone who requested a free transfer will also receive around a dozen bumper stickers that read:
Question Realitywww.freeread.com
We should have everything ready to send by the end of the week.
I see that John also got the right number. I guess we'll have to give him the consolation prize.
Friday, when I went into our office, I found my friend Wayne there talking to my wife. We got into a conversation and I told him about the number that the group was trying to guess. He said he would take a stab at it. Here's what he said:
"Well one digit numbers are positive as well as negative and you probably decided to pick a negative number. You probably thought about three and one but I would have to guess that it is minus two."
I was totally startled. I patted him on the back and told him that he must be close to being a master. He left with a satisfied look on his face.
About 15 minutes later my wife approached me and told me the truth. Just before I came in she had told Wayne about the contest and mentioned that the answer was -2. I smiled and realized that Wayne really put one over on me. We had a good laugh at breakfast this morning.
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