If you remember it wrong, its over. (you keep the money you got and that’s it)

No notes, digital physical or otherwise. You’re only allowed to use your brain.

Starts with 5 words, totally random, then next day it 6 words (the original words from the previous day is kept the same, but adding one new word). Day one prize is $1000, day 2 prize is $2000… (so you have $3000 if you got the first 2 days correct) and so on…

(All currency in USD at current exchange rate)

How much do you think you can get?

I think I max out at like 12 words, then I’d just mess it up.

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
    1·
    16 小时前

    Memorizing the first 5 words would be the hardest, after that any mnemonic technique would allow you to keep going for a LONG time since it’s essentially memorizing one word a day.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    17·
    2 天前

    Do a web search for “mnemonic technique memory linking”. There’s a technique for just this sort of application.

    The pay is more than I make in my current job starting on day 1. 100 days would be over 5 million dollars, enough to retire on. I can devote 8 hours per day for 3.5 months for retirement level money memorizing a list of 100 words.

  • marud@piefed.marud.frFrançais
    12·
    2 天前

    I forgot the start of this topic title when I arrived at the end so I would say negative 1 day

  • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml
    8·
    1 天前

    My neighbour plays this game with us. He has a pile of cards. Every card has a word on it. Short and long all mixed up. You shuffle the deck and he laysbdown the cards one by one. After he went throigh the cards he just szs the wordt in order from memory. He can get up to 150 card. He never rails before 100.

  • zlatiah@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 天前

    I’m genuinely not sure, but if it is literally just one additional word per day on top of the previous words that don’t change… I’ve memorized a length 35+ randomly generated password (with special characters) out of spite just a year ago. I think I will do fine in this game, at least for 20-30 days. My memory might not handle anything more than that

    Especially since… if my calculations are correct, doing this game for 29 days consecutively would net you $435K, an amount so large that it is larger than the median wealth in the country with the highest median wealth currently in the world ($413,193/adult in 2024); another few days would get you over the average ($498,290/adult) as well. So there is a pretty strong incentive to just do this full time and really give you all

    Fun fact, when I was in middle school in China (not sure if they do it anymore) we were expected to memorize whole ancient Chinese poems and literary critiques written by the likes of Lu Xun… with like a month each. They actually appear on the exams and we were supposed to just know the entire poems cover to cover. Which is about the difficulty of this challenge with way less rewards

    I think funnier ways to do this would include progressively introducing weirder words (old English or borrowed words from other languages like rendezvous or schnitzel), roll a dice on how many words are added (jackpot: now remember 30 more words at once!), make you only have 5 minutes to remember and then keep going on a live show, etc… These would make a fun reality TV show actually

    • baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 天前

      This made me remember the same on middle school in America. Recite a poem we had been discussing and analyzing all week. It was maybe 60 to 100 words long and we had a week(introduce Monday and recite next Monday)

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      1 天前

      Fun fact, when I was in middle school in China (not sure if they do it anymore) we were expected to memorize whole ancient Chinese poems and literary critiques written by the likes of Lu Xun… with like a month each. They actually appear on the exams and we were supposed to just know the entire poems cover to cover. Which is about the difficulty of this challenge with way less rewards

      💀 They made me recite a random story from those student handbooks/textbooks. (I forgot whatbit was by now)

      And they start teaching the 9x9 time table, and we had to memorize it. I still have it deeply engrained in memory. Every times I do multiplication, that song/poem thing gets conjured and its somehow always in mandarin, I can never recite it in Cantonese (because they teach it in mandain of course).

      But that took a whole school year I think, one word a day would be tough, I’ve forgotten a master password once.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 天前

    I have a terrible memory, but for the money you’re giving, I would invest a decent amount of time into reciting this over and over for hours and make it into a game the best I can. Considering the potential of this making all my financial issues go away, it seems like a very easy solution.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      2 天前

      like every 24 hours.

      day 1 you get 5 words

      day 2 (24 hours later) you have to recite it, then if correct, you get $1000, then you get another word

      day 3 (24 more hours later) you have to recite the 5 words + 1 word from day before, then if correct, you get another word and you get $2000

      and so on…

      • Ech@lemmy.ca
        3·
        2 天前

        I mean, how long do we have to look at/hear the new word? Is it just one and done? Or would there be time to memorize/internalize it?

        • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.worksOP
          2·
          2 天前

          I actually didn’t think too much about it, but I envision it this way:

          The word(s) appears on a screen in front of you, a recorded voice plays the pronunciation 3 times, 5 seconds apart, the words stays on the screen for a total of 30 seconds. That’s it, no pausing, no repeat, no photographs or recordings allowed, you have to use your brain only. And the words for previous days do not show up again.

          As for reciting, once the 24 hours is up, you get a 60 second window to say or type the words then you can edit or confirm like its a computer text box (it has speech to text). For each additional word, you get 12 second bonus. So you have 120 seconds for 10 words, 180 seconds for 15 words, etc…

          The next 24 hours starts after the this window ends, so if you get to 25 words, you have 300 seconds to recite it, therefore, the next 24 hours start 5 minutes after your previous 24 hours end, (the 5 minute window being the time you have to recite the 25 words).

          • Ech@lemmy.ca
            2·
            2 天前

            That’s reasonable. Hard to say how far I could get. I think I could 14 or so at least. Could probably get further if I can figure out a good way to memorize them.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    28·
    2 天前

    In my youth I memorised some 50 digits of pi in a similar fashion for fun. Considering 1000 USD i could and should treat it as a full time job I’m guessing a month or so before my laziness gets in the way and I make a mistake.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 天前

    If you just asked me to repeat a phrase that someone said earlier in the day, I’d have no idea.

    But, if I have 24 hours in between, and it’s worth thousands of dollars, I’d make a little song out of it and it’ll probably the only thing that would be in my head all day every day.