This is pretty neat how it works out.

This is cool beer maths!!!!!!!

DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!

It takes less than a minute.......

Work this out as you read.



Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.





1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have a pint. (try for more than once)





2. Multiply this number by 2 (Just to be honest)





3. Add 5. (for Sunday)





4. Multiply it by 50 I'll wait while you get the calculator................





5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1755.... If you haven't, add 1754 ...





6. Now subtract the four-digit year that you were born.





You should have a three-digit number





The first digit of this was your original number

(i.e., how many times you want to have a pint week).



The next two numbers are .......











YOUR AGE! ~ (Oh YES, it IS!!!!! )

It doesn't work with the number zero - that's the number of times I'd like to have a pint.

Maybe I should've used a pint of Ice-cream instead

Doesn't work for 42.

But did work nicely with 7 so, a good one still.


Next brainteaser, why?

Works great!

I remember there was one of these for the year 1998 or 1996.

It's cool to find out how these work, and here is how this one works:
(Let X be your orginal number and Y be the year you were before.)
(ex: 25 as the orginal number and 1973 as the year you were born. And the b-day has already happen this year.

2x+5 is the first 2 steps. (50+5)

Then you are told to muliply by 50.

50*(2x+5) = 100x+250 (2500+250)

Now we are told to add 1755 if we have add our B-day this year. Which would make 100x+250, now 100x+2005. And if you didn't have your B-day this year it would be 100x+2004.

(2500+2005) = 4505

So in essence, whatever your first number was it is now that number plus 2 zeroes PLUS (+) either this year (2005, if you have had your b-day this year) or last year (2004, if you have NOT had your b-day this year).

So now we got 4505 - 1973 = 2532

The reason it works out is because the equation assumes that the number you subtract is no greater than the year you entered early (2005 if you had your b-day this year, or 2004 if you haven't had your b-day this year).

If you subtracted 2005 from 4505 you would get: 2500 which would be 100x.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks Yano

Thank you so much for explaining all of it. It worked for me. Since I was born in 1941 and so on. I will be more casual in my next brainteaser. Thanks again everyone...Always...Marion

Good trick Marion!

It worked for me.... scary!

(I'm still working on yano's explanation)

It worked for me.....

Worked for 8 of us here........good one!!

OMG!!! I'm 90. The wife won't like this. We are celebrating my 45 monday. I guess I need to get a burn permit for the cake, from the fire dept.

Works great and very cool! Yes I got one similar on a email in like 2004 and it said it would not work in 2005....
Guess there are more ways to do it lol....

- that's just a side effect of all the beer you drank.

btw Happy Birthday for Monday!

Tasty too!

In simplest terms:

( 100x + 2005 ) - Y = X,AGE

X = orginal number
Y = year you were born
Assuming you already had your b-day this year.

just remember that equation and you can work it backwards

Beauty there Yano !!!

I've got the next brain-teaser:

Blue Gray Orange Blue Yellow Blue Red
Orange White Pink Green Purple Orange Yellow
Blue Pink Gray Blue Purple Blue Gray
Yellow Red White Purple White Red Gray

Remember try saying the color of the word, and not the word itself.

For example if you saw Yellow you would say Green.

MATH!! No one said anything about math..is there going to be a test?!?!?!

Yes it works.

42 * 2 = 84

84 + 5 = 89

89 * 50 = 4450

4450 + 1755 = 6205

6205 - 1989 = 4216

42 16

Yes here is the test. No TALKING!

1. What color is this? BLUE

2. Fish of Foreign lands are found among of there friendly friends in Finland.
How many's F's are in the previous sentence? Are you sure?

I'm going to the nurse's office. I feel sick.

Remind me to use a calculator next time.

Don't worry Mr. Alpha, it happens to everyone. I was telling this to my grandma the other night, and when I first told her it, I multiplied by 50 then added 5. (oops)

1. Green (easier when you see the code )

2. 8

Next: What is special about this sentence (other than the fact that it doesn't make a lot of sense)

Jackdaws loves my big sphynx of quartz.

Ah ya cheater! Your suppose to read it!