{"rowid": 1, "Your Number": "-1E+131", "Show Your Work": "negative numbers are allowed?"} {"rowid": 2, "Your Number": "-1E+37", "Show Your Work": "lowest minimum integer"} {"rowid": 3, "Your Number": "-999,999,999,999,999,000,000,000,000", "Show Your Work": "No idea "} {"rowid": 4, "Your Number": "-1E+21", "Show Your Work": "is this even allowed???"} {"rowid": 5, "Your Number": "-9999999999", "Show Your Work": "whole positive numbers and their opposites"} {"rowid": 6, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "0 is the lowest possible integer that is not negative. "} {"rowid": 7, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "It is not negative."} {"rowid": 8, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "Its the first one that isn't negative"} {"rowid": 9, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "I simply want to watch the world burn as math geeks fight over whether zero is a positive integer or not. We can all agree it is a non-negative integer, but these pesky directions opted for \"positive integer\". Perhaps this will settle the debate and cement my place in math history."} {"rowid": 10, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "0 is the lowest positive integer number. People will probably try to avoid numbers they think everyone will pick, might as well pick the lowest."} {"rowid": 11, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "Positive zero is the smallest positive integer, but just tricky enough that no one else will guess it."} {"rowid": 12, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "Low interger"} {"rowid": 13, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "I figured everyone would assume be the most common choice and decide to choose something in the 20s. I also remember from math class that 0 is a positive number."} {"rowid": 14, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "A whole number that does not have a decimal or fractional part"} {"rowid": 15, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "Zero is the lowest positive integer, but many people don't think of it."} {"rowid": 16, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "figure my best chance is that moderator treats 0 as acceptable, but most submitters do not."} {"rowid": 17, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "People may not think it's positive"} {"rowid": 18, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "I hope no one else thinks about that one ^^"} {"rowid": 19, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "Lowest possible integer?"} {"rowid": 20, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "Cuz copy and paste is a thing :)"} {"rowid": 21, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "Smallest positive integer"} {"rowid": 22, "Your Number": "0", "Show Your Work": "Fuck it. "} {"rowid": 23, "Your Number": "0.001", "Show Your Work": "Low number to the right of zero"} {"rowid": 24, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Someone (probably lots of someones) had to pick it"} {"rowid": 25, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "d"} {"rowid": 26, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Lowest positive integer. Fingers crossed everybody else thinks it's too obvious and doesn't meet second criteria"} {"rowid": 27, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Crossing my fingers that everyone else will think 1 is a bad idea. But given the sheer number of entries you'll probably get, it's more likely that a few of them have the same rationale. "} {"rowid": 28, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Maybe no one else will be this clever...."} {"rowid": 29, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "go big or go home babyyyyyy"} {"rowid": 30, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "It's a risk but one I'm willing to take"} {"rowid": 31, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "somebody's got to do it...."} {"rowid": 32, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Eh, maybe enough people will think its too obvious and not pick it. Or I run into others picking it and I should do 2. Probably 9."} {"rowid": 33, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Someone's gotta try it."} {"rowid": 34, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Because it makes no difference which number I choose. I'm at the mercy of chance that someone else chooses the same number, so why not go for the lowest possible integer which most people will ignore because it's too obvious an answer as they assume everyone else will choose it as well?"} {"rowid": 35, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Mostly a spoiler. I assume I wont be the only one to choose 1, but if everyone has that mindset maybe I will!"} {"rowid": 36, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Just in case everyone else assumes no one would be dumb enough to put in 1--here I am, just dumb enough."} {"rowid": 37, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Hey, it was the lowest number available, I'll take my chances everyone else overthinks it"} {"rowid": 38, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I figured everyone else thought lots of people would select one, so I did, hoping that I would be the only one to do so. I doubt it, but we will see."} {"rowid": 39, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Because I'm betting on the long shot that noone else is dumb enough to choose 1"} {"rowid": 40, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I don't think anyone else has the balls to go this low"} {"rowid": 41, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "What if no one else picks it?"} {"rowid": 42, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Because if the person who wins wins by choosing the number 1, we are all going to hate the person. This ensures that this will be prevented or that I will be the person who is hated.\n\nAlso, this is not a new idea. The puzzle website Nikoli has been doing this for over a decade, it's called the Nikoli Derby. "} {"rowid": 43, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "This is a high-risk, high-reward choice. It's possible that everybody will assume that somebody will enter 1, and therefore it can't win, and try something higher. It's unlikely that nobody else will try this, but if nobody does, I win."} {"rowid": 44, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I'm a high-school math teacher and have played this game with students. It's surprising how many times 1 wins. "} {"rowid": 45, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "because someone has to"} {"rowid": 46, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Trying the obvious"} {"rowid": 47, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Maybe I'm the only one stupid enough to pick this number."} {"rowid": 48, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I am taking the reverse psychology scattergories approach. In the board game scattergories there are multiple categories that require a unique answer In order to earn a point. In this game, you obviously want to come up with an answer that no one else came up with, so everyone avoids the obvious answer. More often than not, the most obvious answer is never given. So, if you had used the easy answer, then you would still be earning a point. That's why I'm going with the most obvious, easy answer, in hopes that everyone else is \"too smart\" to submit it too. "} {"rowid": 49, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Someone has to."} {"rowid": 50, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "if no one else picks it, its the winner."} {"rowid": 51, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I am assuming every one else will think that if they choose 1, then it won't be unique, so they will choose a number greater than 1. That leaves 1 for me!!!!"} {"rowid": 52, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Just in case someone else doesn't guess 1"} {"rowid": 53, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "An integer is a \"counting number\" i.e. No fractions or decimals are in integers, zero is neither positive nor negative which leaves 1 as the next lowest integer"} {"rowid": 54, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "No one else would be so stupid to pick the lowest number, that everyone else will pick."} {"rowid": 55, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Guessed no one else would be bold enough to choose the lowest number"} {"rowid": 56, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Just doing my part making sure #1 is accounted for!"} {"rowid": 57, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I've done with this classes of 30, generally the 1 gambit seems to be the best choice."} {"rowid": 58, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "It's the lowest"} {"rowid": 59, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Worth a shot. Maybe nobody else goes that low."} {"rowid": 60, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "gotta go low"} {"rowid": 61, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Everyone may assume that this is taken."} {"rowid": 62, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Can anybody be dumb enough to pick 1? "} {"rowid": 63, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I thought it would be really funny if every single person overthought it, and no one chose 1."} {"rowid": 64, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Because wouldn't it be funny if it ends up being 1?"} {"rowid": 65, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Just in case everyone else outthinks themselves and no one else takes the lowest possible positive integer!"} {"rowid": 66, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Just in case"} {"rowid": 67, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Worth a try, right?"} {"rowid": 68, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Maybe I'll get lucky and everyone else will overthink it"} {"rowid": 69, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Maybe everyone else will overthink this and I'll get really lucky."} {"rowid": 70, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "It's the most optimal choice from a game theory perspective. It is the only possible number that wins assuming it is unique. If I had a second guess (I assume most of your readers know game theory and some will implement it as rigidly as I have) I'd say 6"} {"rowid": 71, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I want to make sure no one else can win with this number"} {"rowid": 72, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Maybe everyone will decide it's too obvious? Also zero isn't positive. "} {"rowid": 73, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Somebody has to"} {"rowid": 74, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "No one is actually going to pick 1, right?"} {"rowid": 75, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I think there's a high enough chance that no one else picks 1."} {"rowid": 76, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I'm hoping no one else was foolhardy enough to go for the easy win."} {"rowid": 77, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "This is simply an investment in the glory of being the only person to guess \"1\"."} {"rowid": 78, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "It is the lowest possible positive integer, however as such, one could assume then that it would be chosen frequently and thus not unique. However, also assuming that people have this realization, would mean they would not pick 1 in which case the odds it is unique is much higher. This is why I have chosen 1. "} {"rowid": 79, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Triple reverse psychology. Everyone will want to submit it, so everyone will think they cannot. Knowing this, a few will think others won't submit it, and will again be tempted. But they will think a few will submit it, so they will back off a second time. So I am submitting it, hoping everyone else thinks it will be picked by someone else, and avoid it."} {"rowid": 80, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Most people are going to assume low integers will get chosen and choose a higher number."} {"rowid": 81, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "1 is an integer"} {"rowid": 82, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "because wouldn't it be awesome"} {"rowid": 83, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I'm hopeful everyone will think no one will pick one."} {"rowid": 84, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Here's hoping literally everyone else is a hipster and assumes they need to go for a higher number!"} {"rowid": 85, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "It's unlikely this will be unique, but if everyone else thinks that way, then this will win"} {"rowid": 86, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I'm counting on everyone else being too clever to pick 1 --- \"go small or go home\""} {"rowid": 87, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "There is a good chance that no one dares to pick 1."} {"rowid": 88, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Let's see if anyone else has the guts to do it... :) "} {"rowid": 89, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Who would choose the obvious answer?"} {"rowid": 90, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "I'm not going to win, but I'm making sure somebody else who thinks they're clever doesn't."} {"rowid": 91, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Eh, might as well try."} {"rowid": 92, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "It is the lowest positive integer, and maybe no one else will pick it."} {"rowid": 93, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Just in case"} {"rowid": 94, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Lowest positive integer "} {"rowid": 95, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Why not?"} {"rowid": 96, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Just a test to see if I can spam with a separate email."} {"rowid": 97, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "1 is the lowest positive integer. Since it needs to be the lowest unique integer, I'm assuming that everyone will consider 1 to be too obvious a choice and hence unlikely to be unique. Much like my strategy would be on The Price Is Right, I'll bet $1, Bob."} {"rowid": 98, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "May be overlooked"} {"rowid": 99, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "It's a super long shot but I'm hoping everyone just over thinks this and assumes that the lowest positive integer will be picked many times."} {"rowid": 100, "Your Number": "1", "Show Your Work": "Well, it's definitely the lowest. My hope is that everyone else is convinced that someone will pick 1 so they all move on to other numbers."}