Thursday, July 08, 2010

A Super-powered Octopus

An octopus called Mr. Paul lives in an aquarium (奧柏侯遜水族館) in Germany. It has the power to predict the winning team in soccer games. It has succeeded in predicting the winning teams, so far, 10 out of 11 matches.

In this year’s World Cup for example, it predicts 5 matches correctly.
[1] Germany beat Australia (4:0) (Group D Division)
[2] Germany lost to Serbia (0:1) (Group D Division)
[3] Germany beat Ghana (1:0) (Group D Division)
[4] Germany beat England (4:1) (Round of 16)
[5] Germany beat Argentina (4:0) (Quarter-finals)

Yesterday it predicted that Spain beat Germany. It comes true. How powerful Mr. Paul is! It can predict the winning team of football matches! Can it live 4 more years so that we can see its power again?

2 comments:

Ho Keung and Yin Ping said...

Quite astounding news from you!
But, I think most of your readers(if they don't know how it works out the choice) want to know how.

I know.

Paul's handlers will follow the now familiar routine. Two boxes will be lowered into his tank, each containing a tasty morsel of food and the flags of the two opposing teams.

Whichever box Paul wrenches open is judged to be the winner.

Does it have supernatural power?

No correct or wrong answwers, as no answers can be proved.

sswat3 said...

You have very good and logical analysis. That's it!

With a few photos,instead of a video, you can trace out the procedures. You are very clever indeed.