Indecision
I was playing games the other night with some friends, and we reached a point where we didn't know what to do next. There were votes for all sorts of games from Puerto Rico to Wii Mario Kart. There were 4 of us, and after enough bickering about what to do next, I suggested, as a joke, that we flip 2 coins. For each coin, there are 2 possible outcomes (made distinct by the fact that one was an Ohio state quarter, and the other was an Idaho state quarter), so they multiply to give a total of 4 possibilities.
It took us about 10 minutes to vote for games (Wii, Puerto Rico, Ticket to Ride, and Citadels for John, Heather, Becky, and me, respectively), and coin combinations (heads-idaho, ohio-idaho, heads-heads, and ohio-heads, again, respectively). In the end, Puerto Rico won.
Thus, in the end, we spent at least 15 minutes unsuccessfully trying to figure out what to do, another 10 minutes to explain and settle on a method of choosing a board game, and about a minute to decide who flipped the coins. After that, we played Wii Mario Kart, which is a pretty cool game.
The Math Man Prophecies
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