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Thread ID: 49067 2004-09-09 07:28:00 off topic: weird stuff k8smum (6062) Press F1
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270654 2004-09-09 07:28:00 I received this via email . Go on - give it a try . And no cheating! Apologies to those who have seen it before .

Count the "F's" in the following text:


FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS . . . (see below)


Managed it ?
Scroll down only after you have counted them, okay?
Do you think there are three?

How many ? 3?








Wrong, there are 6 !!--no joke .
Read it again .
The reasoning behind it is further down .













The brain cannot process "OF" .
Incredible or what ? Go back and look again!!
Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius .
Three is normal, four is quite rare .


I got four first time - but then I am a rarity . I'm not entirely sure of the significance of the scrolling/spacing out of the "puzzle" . Maybe it's all part of tricking the brain . . .
k8smum (6062)
270655 2004-09-09 07:48:00 I got 6...

Mike.
Mike (15)
270656 2004-09-09 09:06:00 Is it something to do with how we were taught the F "efff" letter sounds like, so we see the word "OF" and miss it? Pillar (439)
270657 2004-09-09 09:32:00 I counted 17.

i figure i've shot right past genius and now inhabit the realm of demented....
metla (154)
270658 2004-09-09 09:32:00 Well you got me and I was looking real hard - is it the way we pronounce it? OV andrew93 (249)
270659 2004-09-09 09:35:00 Just 17 metla? You'd better count again.... andrew93 (249)
270660 2004-09-09 09:40:00 > Well you got me and I was looking real hard - is it
> the way we pronounce it? OV
>



I would bet thats it,we don't pronounce the f as an f in of,and i bet when we look at words,letters we see them as they sound .

If that makes any sence at all .


Boowaafiddlerakehandlecarjackspoon .
metla (154)
270661 2004-09-09 11:13:00 Actually, I haven't done the puzzle - just registered that her 2 previous posts were quiet replies in threads- with no reason for acknowledgment.
So welcome to Press F1..
You've obviously struck a cord here among some of us.
Laura (43)
270662 2004-09-10 03:43:00 OMG, amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:^O:^O:^O

I just KNEW that there WERE only 3!

But ...... *!!!* ..... I've even seent hat before and it got me. wow:D

That made my day (I'm sick:().

Cheers
george12 (7)
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