(Not so) Magic Prediction

Hey Sam that's really cool. You guessed my number. If you can't share your source file, can you share your a screenshot of your Christmas cracker game? Either way, this was fun.

Hi David. Source file attached along with a scan of the cracker game. The 'magic':

• Create a number variable called 'total' with a default of zero.
• Create a trigger on the first slide to reset the variable 'total' to zero.
• Create a trigger for each 'Yes' button which adds the first number in the table to the variable 'total'.
• Create a trigger for each 'Yes' button to jump to the next slide.
• Create a trigger for each 'No' button to jump to the next slide.
• On the last slide the variable 'total' is revealed.

The patterns of the numbers and sequencing of the slides might be obvious to an eagle-eyed mathematician so a digital version enables more complexity if the numbers on each slide are jumbled and the slides randomised!

That was delightful, Sam. Almost more fun than opening the Christmas crackers! 

Thanks Trina. This was the first decent deliverable from any cracker (although the joke was traditionally awful). 

Awful as in, "what do you get if you cross Santa with a duck?" (A Christmas quacker.)

Because that one delivered big groans around our table this year. 

Happy New Years, Sam!

Yes. And here's another: "Why is a Xmas Tree no good at sewing?" (Because it keeps dropping it's needles!). Sorry, but you started it! Happy New Year.

Love this! Great work.

Thank you Allison. A work colleague told me that it kept her son amused for hours so I'm in her good books for a while!

HAHA no doubt! 

Hi Sam, loved the game. May I please ask what program you used for the animated character 

Hi Liz, I used Crazy Talk 8 (https://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/).

Very clever I love this! I also use Crazy talk, I work for an animal charity and to make the GDPR more interesting, I have donkeys and horses narrating some of the content! Crazy talk is really an excellent addition to our eLearning tools!