If you remember it wrong, its over. (you keep the money you got and that’s it)
No notes, digital physical or otherwise. You’re only allowed to use your brain.
Starts with 5 words, totally random, then next day it 6 words (the original words from the previous day is kept the same, but adding one new word). Day one prize is $1000, day 2 prize is $2000… (so you have $3000 if you got the first 2 days correct) and so on…
(All currency in USD at current exchange rate)
How much do you think you can get?
I think I max out at like 12 words, then I’d just mess it up.
Currently on day 197.
Whoops.
I’ve said too much.
My neighbour plays this game with us. He has a pile of cards. Every card has a word on it. Short and long all mixed up. You shuffle the deck and he laysbdown the cards one by one. After he went throigh the cards he just szs the wordt in order from memory. He can get up to 150 card. He never rails before 100.
I’m a biologist, undergrad was tons of memorizing lists of vaguely related words. Since it’s an additive list and it’s literally the only thing I’d have to do, 100+ at least. 200+ if it forms any sort of coherent sentence. Every day, all I’d be doing is practicing the previous list and learning one new word.
Edit: for giggles, I calculated how much you’d earn at 100 days, then 200. The formula is T= 1000(n(n+1))/2 for anyone who is curious.
At 100 days, you’d have $5,050,000.
At 200, $20,100,000.
I am very unsure. With your example, I think I could go for awhile, those particular words are pretty sticky, I could chant them mentally, make a tune & sing them. And I’d be motivated, first day it’s already it’s already more than I make at work, right? So this is the new job? I would try for a month, a cool half million would certainly fix our budget even after taxes.
Correct horse, battery staple
What I don’t know is whether I could avoid cheating - if my kids heard me singing these they would pick it up and they have wicked good memories. They would be chanting it the next day. And if I couldn’t say them out loud it would make it more difficult. So might be immediately DQ’d.
Three tops
You can do better for $1k, I believe in your ability to hit at least six
I have a terrible memory, but for the money you’re giving, I would invest a decent amount of time into reciting this over and over for hours and make it into a game the best I can. Considering the potential of this making all my financial issues go away, it seems like a very easy solution.
Honestly? I’m failing day one. Took me until my mid-twenties just to memorise the order of months.
Lmao English be funny.
You know how other languages order the months?
一月 (Month 1)
二月 (Month 2)
三月 (Month 3)
…
💀
Also who the fuck invented July and August? They should get stabbed.
Julius and Augustus?
As it sounds like there’s no risk involved (ie, if I get 5 days right and then the 6th one wrong, I still keep all the money from the 5 days), I think I could probably do this for at least 10 days and probably more. Which would work out at $55k, I think? Not too bad.
For anyone wondering, I think you’d have to keep going for 141 days to get to a million. Keep it up for a year and you’d win $66,795,000.
A billion would take 1414 days (3.87 years), and to pass Musk’s current total (480.1b, according to a quick search) you’d need to keep getting it right for… longer than I’m willing spend time on to make my spreadsheet calculate. I’m sure there a formula to work it out, but I’ll leave that to someone else :-)
depends on how it’s delivered. If it’s all at once then around 7 as it would be my maximum for working memory. If I could make the input piecemeal then 100+ with great effort would be possible. For the first few days I would need to hit the research about mnemotechnics and learn it how to do it.
You get paid the moment you get it right. So you can go on forever if your brain is big enough to store all the words.
My streak would depend if someone would tell me the phasprase once or multiple times? Would they pause on request, every five words or tell everything without stop?
Its like: the words comes up on a screen in front of you, a prerecorded voice says the words in the average speed of all english speakers, and its pronounced in the accent of your current region, 5 seconds apart, like this:
Time = 0 second (word appears on screen)
Correct Horse Battery Staple
(5 seconds silence)
Correct Horse Battery Staple
(5 second silence)
Correct Horse Battery Staple
Time = 30 second (word disappears from screen)
That’s it. No pause, no repeat.
The next day, the old words don’t get shown again, its only the new word.
Then the critical moment would be around 7 and 14 words in. Would I manage to memorise two and three sets of working in allotted time?
It could only be answered empirically. It would be make it or break it moment.
When I was busking I had about 60 songs memorised. The first few I learned took ages to cement themselves, but the more I learned the easier it was to learn new ones. Memory is like a muscle; the more you use it the better it works. I haven’t played in public in about ten years, but I’ve still got a couple of dozen songs I can remember, and it only takes a little brushing up to get back the ones I’m rusty on.
I think people would do better at this challenge than they expect.
I can’t even remember the title of this post.
But did you died?
I’d give it about a week before my cryptolalia betrays me.
In my youth I memorised some 50 digits of pi in a similar fashion for fun. Considering 1000 USD i could and should treat it as a full time job I’m guessing a month or so before my laziness gets in the way and I make a mistake.
Bohemian Rhapsody is nearly 400 words, and I could recite that at any moment.
If you just asked me to repeat a phrase that someone said earlier in the day, I’d have no idea.
But, if I have 24 hours in between, and it’s worth thousands of dollars, I’d make a little song out of it and it’ll probably the only thing that would be in my head all day every day.
