Math Is Fun Forum

Hmm...interesting! I think I'll just have to read over the rules again to fully understand.

I also have a couple of questions:

Can a person be two roles at the same time, eg. a seer and a protector?

What if only six (or less) people are playing? Does everyone get a role or do we cut down the parts?

I think that's all for the moment. It should be great once we get started!

Good job! Very neat.

As I walk down the dark, gloomy street, I can hear footsteps behind. I swivel my head, turning just enough to take a peek behind. It is pitch black, with no moon, and I see nothing.

More footsteps, louder, more penetrating, as if getting closer. But as I turn, once again, to check my surroundings, there is nothing there. Must be my imagination. The dark does that to you. Makes you scared of things which aren't there. A tiny movement looks like a murderer. A flashing light could be police, coming after you. A slight breeze could be a stranger's heavy breathing on your shoulder. I can still feel something coming, but don't look. 

Almost there now. To my house. It's just around the corner. This time I turn, and see a flicker of movement, but too late to do anything about it. I can feel something severing all my fingers, each one a blinding, searing pain. There is nothing I can do, as I feel myself being knocked to the ground. Now an extremely heavy object pins to the ground, paralysing me from the shoulders down. I can see no sign of any other human life, just deep blackness surrounding and engulfing me. There aren't even any stars tonight, as if mocking me.

In the morning, when they find me, a young girl comes across two sheets of paper tucked into my right jacket pocket. One reads:

'The punctuation is coming.'

The other:

'I owe you 100 Australian Dollars. Signed, The Murderer.' The note ends with a lavish scrawl of a signature.

This is not the only strange thing. As I lie there, on the cold hard concrete, I am surrounded by what looks to be question marks. Five of them, made out of black hooked planks, and small round discs, circle my figure. Later, the investigators will find that one of these discs was sharply thrown and sliced off my fingers, and the hooked plank was used to hold me down on the ground. But I will never know. I am dead.

And even in criticism his spelling is appaling.

Looks interesting. I think I'll wait until ganesh has replied before I post a guess.

We could have a Cow Bull winner image award too. Except it might mess up images of the Wink Murder game.

Is it snowing there? I like snow. I've seen it real snow only twice, in two separate years, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

And I'm pretty sure there is someone from Japan. Where are you from?

My word is actually longer (29 letters). Yours only has 28.

But there are even longer (and weirder words) here.

When you post, you might want to allow a little time in between your visits so everybody has a chance to read it.

Mean normally refers to the arithmetic average of a set of numbers. So if you have a set of numbers (1, 2, 2, 4, 6) then to work out the mean -
* you find the sum of those numbers, which is 15.
* since there are 5 numbers, you divide 15 by 5 to find the average or mean.
* the mean is 5.

The mode of a set of numbers is the number that has the largest amount of observations. So if you use the same set as above, the mode is 2, because is appears the most times out of the set.

Mode can also be used for sets which aren't numeric - that is, they don't use numbers. So if we had a set (pencil, eraser, ruler, ruler, pencil, ruler, sharpener, ruler) the mode would be ruler, since it appears four times.

Hope that helps.

Hey darthradius... nice name! And nice joke too! Welcome to the forum.

Puzzles and jokes are good! I also like conundrums and rebuses.

Did you hear the joke about the butter?
Better not tell you... it might spread.

Yay for mathsy! The champ!

Now - if only we could get you to organise the next few games so someone has the chance to catch up...