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Emily Lovegrove's avatar

David McGurk video was just beautiful.

Ann Maziane's avatar

That beautiful table. So gorgeous.

Ambermoggie's avatar

This week’s winner for me is the table and Wow. Hope it comes somewhere near Lancaster. Thanks as always Lev.

Caroline Heathfield-Barker's avatar

Thankyou, I liked reading about all these six things very much X

Jay's avatar

41.1 on the colour match - that's strangely satisfying

Sarah Crowder's avatar

44.88 after multiple attempts (the lowest of which was 33 something).

The table is ridiculously beautiful, and the spurious correlations charts look a lot like how my magical thinking works.

Lev Parikian's avatar

The table has me wanting to visit Lichfield.

Sarah Crowder's avatar

Same! I want to lick it, or at least touch it. Ive just been learning about the etymology of lich so was excited to see if Lichfield was related to the old meaning of that word (corpse, body) but apparently it probably isn't.

Bren's avatar

I know it's just a bit of fun and I should just enjoy it, but I can't help noticing that they play around with the y axes a bit - presumably to get a better fit.

Yes, I'm a wow at parties. Why do you ask?

Lev Parikian's avatar

I see what you mean, but each y axis is consistent to itself, as it were.

Bren's avatar

That's what I'm not sure about. Google searches for snakebite is 10, 14, 17, 20 and 24 - so I'm intrigued as to the gap changing from 4 to 3 (and back again).

Of course, I would need to check whether they are possibly the correct distances, but that would be verging on fanatical.

Similarly, the customer satisfaction one goes 56, 60, 64. 69 and 73. Why 4 to 5 and back again!

I'd make a great conspiracy theorist.

And I still think they're great fun.

Sally Reynolds's avatar

The colour matching game was strangely compulsive! 43.10 on my first go — I can see me adding it to my puzzle list.

Laureen (Austin, TX)'s avatar

Lev mentioned a similar game called Hued, and it's one I've saved to my list, too. Playhued.com if you're interested.