the European game designers design games where the outcome is not obvious after 5 moves. See for choices. All these games are also available in actual boardgames. My current favourite is Forest Shuffle
my weight issues remind me of an old joke (pre-locking gas caps) where one guy was bragging about his gas mileage. His neighbours started adding small amounts of gas to his tank and he just bragged even more. Then they took gas out of his car and he went crazy trying to figure out why. Is God playing that same joke on me?
For me, one of the worst was the last Wrigley commercial where someone would beat up a guitar player to show that Wrigley’s wasn’t old fashioned. When I complained, they said it was just humour. … but the commercials stopped shortly after that. I guess I wasn’t the only one complaining.
I thought Steve had modified the painting so I looked it up and found this: The depicted lady was identified as Margaret, Countess of Tyrol, who was described by her enemies as ugly; however, she had died 150 years earlier. According to some scholars, the portrait served as a basis for John Tenniel’s 1869 illustrations of the Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
My kitchen clock has formulae for each of the 12 numbers, not quite as complicated as this one but you do need a moment to think.