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by virgulino 487 days ago
There's the classic “four fours”, which I learned as a child in the book “The Man Who Counted”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_fours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Counted

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That's version I learned as a kid. You might enjoy this page of mine:

The Definitive Four Fours Answer Key https://dwheeler.com/fourfours/

I love this:

> Note that these are large files; both are over 1.6 Megabytes, so don’t load these if you have a slow Internet connection

Just shows how far internet speeds have come...

That's the one!

That's how I learned about false induction. I also liked the one about the men who were lined up and had something on their backs and they had to guess what it was.