Guessing games

I must say that when it comes to shopping, I'm a no-brainer. But I can definitely observe the first time round I see a price tag and the next time, even if you close the tags, I can second guess them. Guess I'm a mystery shopper too, because I just love to observe how the sales people treat customers. And I won't hesitate to give positive feed-backs when I see deserved to be praised employees.

My second daughter used to LOVE doing the shopping bill guessing game, Ellie! When she was about 9 or 10, she'd calculate the prices in her head while we were walking around the supermarket - and was always really close to the mark! One day I added some razors to the pile without telling her, and she was horrified when her calculation was $7 out of whack - she prided herself on her accuracy - so she was pretty relieved when she discovered the razor blades!

we do trivia all the time, we guess things like who is the best paid actor, or what was used for pain before the invention of aspirin, and then we go and look it up. I love trivia games I always have.

I never play shopping guessing game...most often I plan my shopping not to be more than the number I want to spend. It is hard those days to g shopping and spend less than $40 at once. I am trying to keep all on budget, but my budget spending is on my pets now...

My Dad could always guess presents. He would be handed his gift and we would all say (even if it was from one of us and the rest didn't know what was inside) "Guess what it is!" amid gleeful laughter. Dad would turn the package, weigh it and he would guess...he would be between 50-100% correct. We would try and give him things he could not possibly guess but he would always get close or be spot on.

Working in a supermarket I get a couple of people who like to 'estimate' how much they shopping will come to. There is one family who come in, the son and his partner will go around the store and he will add it up on his mobile phone calculator. He is always out by a few pounds. I did tell him once that if he got it right I would pay for his shopping, luckily the one time he did get it right I wasn't there!!!! lol His parents and his son like to estimate the shopping, the little lad will wait until the bottles of pop have gone through and then they all estimate. One of them is always near! As the cashier I think it is exciting scanning the things and totalling it and then seeing who if anyone was close. I have never done this when I have been shopping be it on my own, with my partner or my parents.

We generally do not play guessing game. But I think its really nice and fun. Its good most of the time you are near to the actual amount. its based on good idea about price and planning.

I don't really care for guessing games, probably because I'm not very good at them... Now, having said that, I guess I'm paranoid enough to also think there must be some kind of "trick" to the game. I suppose that part of that is because with my brother there always was. But I learned to really consider the question when I was asked: "Guess what..." For example, my sister called home and said "Guess what color my friend Annette's new contects are?" Hmmmm, why would she want ME to guess this? Why would I care what color these contacts are? Well, my favorite color was/is purple, so... "Purple?" as it turned out - yes, to make her eyes look more brown... Can I get some to make my eyes look Purple, that works for me... so, I guess I view guessing games as tricks and traps.

Once in a while we do......but since I don't get to be together with them often it's not something done on a regular basis...but what fun for you and your dad! Sounds like you just about have it nailed!

We play the "what song is next?" on the CD player in the car. Its a 6 disc changer and there are a lot of different artists on the CDs I make, its an odds game, sometimes we all get at least one right. "Song 8, disc 4", I win!! We also try to guess how many miles to the tank we will get after filling up, it changes based on the previous MPGs from the last tank so I'm usually the one that wins since I know from looking at it all the time.