I tried it three times and realized it was the kind of maddening thing I hate and I could do it like 50 gazillion times and never get the right answer. And furthermore not care very much. So does that mean I'm and Einstein or a putz?

And I still love Jesse even though she likes Dr. Phil. Different life coaches for different folks.

You're an Einstein quitter putz, kat.

I don't even think it's about how hard you think

Well, I kinda mean in terms of how deep a groove you dig when you pursue a train of thought -- it makes it harder (in my analogy) to jump right up and shift metaphors.

I think the part of the description that said "Only a basic understanding of math is required" threw me way off. I'm a bit of a stickler for the rulesguidelines.

Einstein quitter putz

Hee. New tag, please?

I got it in just a minute or two. I'm not sure there's a "how hard you think" thing -- I think it's more just whether you hit on the right guess.

Starting Over is a total dirty secret of TV watching.

Totally. Um, I mean, what's Starting Over?

There's some anecdote Bob points to all the time, about how someone really smart-- Feynman, maybe-- scored rather low on an IQ test, and people theorized it was because he could make even "wrong" answers work.

I don't think your intelligence is implicated if you get the answer right away, but you may be stymied for a really long time because you can come up with lots of different possible solutions.

There's a great anecdote about Bill Gates on one of the links.

Well, I kinda mean in terms of how deep a groove you dig when you pursue a train of thought -- it makes it harder (in my analogy) to jump right up and shift metaphors.

Yeah, I see what you mean.

I don't think your intelligence is implicated if you get the answer right away,

Phew. I was afraid I was borderline retarded there for a minute.

But then, I'm the person who spends a lot of energy insisting that being good at trivia doesn't make me "smart."

you may be stymied for a really long time because you can come up with lots of different possible solutions.

This is sort of why I did so horribly in the probability&stats portion of my physics education. It wasn't intelligence that worked to my disadvantage, though, more just the seriously overdeveloped case of what-if-itis. Everybody else was like oooh, use this equation while I was mentally flipping my 43rd penny or something.

I have no idea what the hell that game or whatever is talking about, but what I do know is that I'm not much inclined to try.