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I voted for "Odd", because it seemed to best fit this poll.

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What is this - some kind of survey designed to test whether people prefer to choose an odd number of stones or an even number, so that you can use this knowledge to win at nigiri more often?

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I'm calling: he had to pick nigiri, but was so indecisive, so he crowd-sourced it.

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Odd. People like primes, which are almost all odd. Hence "43 folders", "37 signals", "41 ways to sharpen pencils more efficiently" (edit: I guess 43 wasn't an arbitrary choice).

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I'm voting for even cause it's the odd one.

Yes.

Even, because the answer is 42, and it's even !

Odd because it is less work to pick up one stone rather than two.

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Odd. So I know my opponents pick even. But knowing I know they know I pick odd, they'll double-bluff me and pick odd themselves, but here's the real trick, I'm expecting that now.

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I'll be honest, I was wondering if there was a correlation between how people saw their style as a player (aggressive, calm etc) and whether they picked odd or even. When I chose 17 against Dave in our Malkovich, I picked it thinking "he strikes me as a very reasonable, calm player, I bet he'll pick even". I was right, but meh, sample of 1 on a 50-50 decision? So what! So, instead, I made this poll, and thought I'd post this after enough people had voted.

Do people think they are likely to pick an even spread of odd and even numbers, are likely to pick their favourite / lucky numbers more often than not, or likely that their guess of odd or even is affected by either their own personality traits, or their guesses of the personality traits of their opponent?

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Actually you guessed wrong about the relationship! In real life I always choose odd. Why? Because it is simpler to pick one stone out of the bowl reliably than it is to pick two In our Malkovich I thought, "Well just for a change..."

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Dave Sigaty
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- Marcus Aurelius; Meditations, VIII 21

Heh, I also picked the opposite of what I would normally pick. When presented with the words, I guess I choose odd, but when someone puts a bowl of stones in front of me, I always want two.

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Hmmm...

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- Marcus Aurelius; Meditations, VIII 21

Its odd that this bwah post is not even in the Off Topic section.

I always pick (i+1) stones, and let people argue whether that's even or odd.

Heh, good poll Topazg.

For whatever reason, I prefer even numbers and will tend toward those picks (thus my even pick in the poll). In nigiri, though, I'll often second guess myself for no reason whatsoever.

Also, if I'm actually picking up the stones, I never think about it and just grab a random number of stones, then let fate decide. Try and second guess me now, opponent!

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To every even number belongs one unique odd number. Halve the even number as many times as possible.
To every odd number belongs an infite collection of unique even numbers. Double the odd number one, two ,three ... times.
Because there are far more even numbers than odd numbers the chance of picking even is about 100%. So the answer is Even of course.


1 2 4 8 16 ..
3 6 12 24 48 ..
5 10 20 40 80 ..
7 14 28 58 116 ..
...............

Above are listed all natural numbers, each one only once. You should admit that picking an odd number is unlikely.

Studies of people's behavior in lottery situations have shown that people are more likely to choose odd numbers than even numbers. So, since in lotteries, unless they're fixed, even and odd are equally likely, you are more likely to win if you pick half even numbers.