If Architect or Architecture is one of the answers, guess it .

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I also use 3 for the CD games. I tend to use 1 for the BT games.

It's been said before, but I agree with it. Guessing any one number will help you 20% of the time in CD or 25% of the time in BT. I'd much rather guess at an answer than at that answer's number. There's always a chance that locked away somewhere in your subconsciousness, that bit of information is trying to surface. By guessing at a number, you don't give it a chance...

Blind number guessing is also the reason I don't really enjoy Speed Freaks. Especially in a BWW-type setting in which I don't know most of the players. Last week, I'm almost positive that a table of four each had a predetermined number to blindly push. With the scores they had been putting up prior to SF, their .01-.02 reaction times were a little suspect...

I did a statistical analysis of this very question for the Annals of Improbable Research, and proved pretty conclusively that "3" occurs in no statistically significant greater frequency than the other numbers. Because the snooty editors at AIR turned it down, I posted it on the Buzztime website here (post number 46):

http://www.buzztime.com/players/showthr ... light=myth

It will be available for the next few days, I guess (Table 4 is available on post 50).

I tried to add it as a file here, but no matter which format I saved it to (.pdf, .rtf, .doc, and no extension), the site told me the extension was not allowed. Perhaps Dante could tell me how one is supposed to add MSWord files.

How big was the file you were trying to attach?

I will use 3 when I don't have clue to CD ... lately for BT it has been 2 which seems to hit more often and for music and categories I have no clue on I now look for an answer/singer/artist I have never even heard of and go with that.

seen lots of folks use the 'longest' answer method and anytime it says France/Paris or Napoleon just go with it.

I pick 3 or the last answer for except questions. I also have the following guessing rules:

Always pick: bird, aviator, Australia, Japan, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, Wyatt Earp (unless Jesse James is also a choice), fish (if no bird), sex (unless that is the obvious answer), France (if Australia and Japan are gone), Jupiter, Pacific Ocean, the human body, cheese, the one name you have never heard of before, the second to the largest number, saxaphone, Kent State, drink it, Spencer Tracy, Marilyn Monroe, The Ronettes, Diana Ross, brain, barnacle, ritz, Astor and for sports: Baseball if it's USA, Hockey if Canada (eh?), otherwise Soccer.

I hope that helps. Guess immediately. Never change a guess until you know. (I wish I followed that one, yeah.) When it's correct, declare, "Oops, I got the right answer!"

These work a lot:

1) Any time France is there
2) Any time Napoleon is there
3) Any time you can say, "Why would they bother typing all that if it weren't right?"
4) Same as 3, but includes use of hyphens or other odd characters.
5) Any time Aviation is up there.
6) Any time Architecture is up there WITHOUT Aviation being up there.
7) Any time Spotes or Megumi say it's the answer.