• This really does work for anybody from 1 to 99 years old, although the Eish!! reads part is just for fun (an added distraction). Here's how the mathematics work.
• Select a number between 1 and 10. Multiply by 2, add 5, multiply by 50. These steps are just a fancy way to push your random number out into the hundreds place. Here is what you'll get for all possible selections:

1. 350
2. 450
3. 550
4. 650
5. 750
6. 850
7. 950
8. 1050
9. 1150
10. 10 1250
    

• Add 1757 or 1756, if your birthday hasn't happened yet this year. This yields the year of your last birthday (2006 or 2007) plus 100 times your chosen number:

1. 2106
2. 2206
3. 2306
4. 2406
5. 2506
6. 2606
7. 2706
8. 2806
9. 2906
10. 3006

• Subtract the year of your birth and get your age plus 100 times your chosen number. Put another way:

• This will only work in 2007! For 2008, in Step 5, add 1758 if your birthday went by and 1757 if it didn't yet.
• Your friends may think you are strange for playing this game as it requires inputting information from their date of birth into the equation ;-).

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Posted by eishman on Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 9:38 AM | Permalink