have you ever let that guy at the carnival try to guess your age?
you know the guy i mean — he stands in front of a wall of prizes and you win a stuffed frog or elephant or maybe an inflatable ducky if he is more than two years off in his attempt to guess your age. well, i took the challenge once (it seemed like a much better idea than his other game - Let me guess your weight…) and the guy guessed my age right on the nose! not that i thought i looked a lot younger, but i thought there was at least a chance he would go low. so i walked away empty-handed, with the small solace that at least he hadn’t guessed that i was older than i actually was.
well i would like to share with you what must be that carnival guy’s online training site. it’s this uber-cool website designed by Bryant Smith, where you can challenge yourself to guess the age of a series of people whose faces appear in succession. (each of the pics above is from the site.) turns out, it’s not so easy to guess a person’s age! (kudos to all the carnies out there doing this for a living - much harder than it would seem.) it’s fun, and in some ways, slightly stressful. when i played it for the very first time, i guessed the first person exactly right. (a response page comes up and tells you how far off you were, or if you were (ahem) “perfect.”) well, after being told i was perfect at age-guessing, i was very tempted to quit while i was ahead. of course, there’s no punishment for bad guesses, so i forged on. i found that i was the furthest off from the correct age if the person was older than i am. i guess that figures, right? people who were 20 or more years older than i am brought out my biggest errors. i always guessed too low. very encouraging, actually. good to know it’s possible to look ten or more years younger than you are!
this is a really fun challenge but watch out – it can become a time sink (sort of like desktop solitaire can be for some people - but much cooler!) my one complaint– people upload their own pics, so some of them are ridiculously unclear. play and you’ll see what i mean. for those people, i have learned they are diliberately trying to cheat the game - i now guess them all way older than they look. also, if you’re not too scared to know what people think, you can upload a personal photo and check back to see the average of people’s guesses for your age. (this, i must say, is too scary for me. i’ll stick with the pros at the carnivals…)
click on the link to play: howoldareyou.net
enjoy!
julie
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