So while spending a day at home, getting over a bad fever, I was looking for some oddities, or something really crazy to put up, and after a few hours of searching, I found a good one. This little diddy is called “The Prediction”, and it’s a hands on demonstration that is essentially meant to boggle the mind the first time you see it. The entire demonstration is presented by Richard Wiseman. I’ll let you watch it first, then I’ll give you a bit of insight…
So let me start out by saying that the first time I saw this video, the prediction was incorrect. I didn’t have my finger on the photo that he picked, but all of the other inclinations he had were correct. I happen to be an avid puzzle solver, so after I watched it for the first time, my mind went to work… I haven’t figured out the secret just yet, but this is what I came up with. There has to be a reason why he systematically eliminates certain tiles, and a better reason why he picks different numbers for you to move each turn. This obviously has something to do with the trick, but whats even more clever… is that if you freeze the video at 1:07, there’s a flash frame of the smiley face that many people miss the first time they watch it. Now I know at the end, there’s a 50/50 chance for him to get it right, but I’m very intrigued as to weather or not the flash frame has anything to do with peoples decisions on a subliminal level.