A poem from the pen of CJ

Truth

Here is a jacket that I like. It's from an American store

Now where can I get one like it in the UK?

Somtimes I think this country sucks for getting things that I like

anyone seen the new competition game on the 5'O clock show? The person who bids the lowest money as long as no-one else bids the same amount wins the itemm! Well they stole my idea. That was my game which I made up about five years ago and still use sometimes. But let me tell you about my clever game in a blog I have titled

My Clever little Game and the Cleverer little girl that ruined it!

My clever game was called smallest number wins. The idea is simple. You have a class in front of you and they all have to write down a number. It must be a whole number, for example 1, 2, 3 etc... The winner is the person who can write down the smallest number; unless someone else has the same number in which case you lose! So the winner is the one with the smallest number which no-one else has got. It was good fun, the pupils really enjoyed it as a quick end game to a lesson. Many times lots of pupils picked 1 or 2 and lost and normally you got to 4 or 5 before a winner was found.

All was going well until one girl worked out how to beat the system. Knowing that the group were very competitive and each person wanted to win, she declared to the class. "I don't know what you're going to write, but I am going to choose the number 1" which was great psychology. She knew that no-one wanted to lose so no-one would choose the number 1, because if they did choose that number it would match her own and they would both definitely lose! So everyone else chose higher numbers hoping that someone else would pick the number 1 to match the clever girl's, of course no-one did and the clever girl won.... Several times!

No one in that class wanted to play it after that!