Friday, October 6, 2017

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Congratulations to Dan Sela who won this week's "Mind Scrambler". Here was the scrambler:

I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me.

What am I?

ANSWER: Fire.

Enjoy!

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Games lubricate the body and the mind."

HINT: (1705-1790), was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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RANDOM TIDBITS
Ouija boards were widely regarded as "harmless parlor tricks" until famous spiritualists began taking them seriously in World War I.

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There are 13 words in the official Scrabble dictionary that are impossible to play even using both blank tiles, including KNICKKNACK, PIZZAZZ, and SENSELESSNESSES.

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The first 5,000 copies of Settlers of Catan sold out so fast that inventor Klaus Teuber doesn't have a copy of the first edition.

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Two journalists invented Trivial Pursuit in 45 minutes after being shocked at the price of a Scrabble set.

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Yahtzee was invented by a wealthy Canadian couple who liked to play the game on their Yacht. The probability of rolling a Yahtzee in one roll is 1 in 1296. The chances of doing it in all 13 rounds of a normal game are 1 in 29 duodecillion - A 41 decimal-long number.

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The longest Monopoly game ever went on for 70 straight days. Parker Brothers once sent a group of players who had run out of money during a 161-hour marathon game extra cash by plane and an armored car.




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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Games lubricate the body and the mind."

ANSWER: Benjamin Franklin.