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So, on the recent Veritasium video, "Why is this number everywhere", which is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98 he interviews a 100 people and even posts a Google Forms form on his Twitter (now X) account to have people choose randomly for a number between 1 and 100, and he discovers that the most common picked number was 37 (basically), so the video is about this.
The interesting part is that there are people noticing these patterns since the 90s, where there's even a website (http://thirty-seven.org/) created in 1994 where the creator is collecting references to the number 37 from around the world, and even accepts visitor entries.
Then I thought "well, why not suggest it?" and I just found interesting. We already have Walkie-Talkie, which benefits 10s and 4s, and of course, the joke that benefits 9s
I'm tired to think of all the ones that benefits playing cards now but yeah, we have several; so why not have a joker that makes a reference to the most chosen two-digits in the world since forever, 3s and 7s?
Anyway, here's the websites Veritasium has mentioned in their video that might help in the research, y'know, for a name, or a better mechanic, if this joker suggestions ever gets in the game (this reference sheet is extracted directly from Veritasium's Youtube video's description – all credits and reserach goes to Veritasium):
Simon, W. E. (1972). “Blue Seven Phenomenon” in Elementary and Jr. High Children. Psychological Reports - https://ve42.co/Simon1972
Trueman, J. (1979). Existence & Robustness of Blue Seven Phenomena. The Journal of General Psychology - https://ve42.co/Trueman1979
Saito, M. (1999). “Blue and Seven Phenomena” in Japanese Students. Perceptual & Motor Skills - https://ve42.co/Saito1999
Philbrick, J. L. (1976). Blue seven in East Africa: Preliminary report. Perceptual & Motor Skills - https://ve42.co/Philbrick1976
Hargreaves, S. (2009). The psychology of randomness. - https://ve42.co/Hargreaves2009
The 37 Force via The Magician’s Forum - https://ve42.co/37Force1
Fulves, K. (1979) Self-Working Mental Magic. Dover Publications, Inc. - https://ve42.co/Fulves1979
Random numbers via The Jargon File at catb.org - https://ve42.co/Jargon
Random Number Survey by MahoganyForest via Reddit - https://ve42.co/RedditRndm
Prime number theorem via Wikipedia - https://ve42.co/WikiPNT
Grossack, C. (2023). A truly incredible fact about the number 37. Grossack.site - https://ve42.co/Grossack2023
Least prime factor of n via oeis.org - https://ve42.co/LeastPrime
Fry, H. (2017). When should you settle down? ideas.ted.com - https://ve42.co/Fry2017
Choosing Toilets by Numberphile - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIOoCKO-ybQ)
Seaton, R. (2014). The Secretary Problem Explained: Dating Mathematically. rs.io - https://ve42.co/Seaton2014
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