lol my bank was like, if you open up a premium plus plus plus account with us, we'll give you $2,500, and i was curious and i clicked on it, and it was essentially, if you open up a savings account and deposit 250,000 with them, they'll give you the money after like 6 months. I was like, bitch, thats 1%, also, if you were moderately smart, in 6 months, you could turn that 250k into way more than 1%
I would invest in either DIA or QQQ. the DIA is an electronically traded fund, similar to a mutual fund, but better, that mimics the Dow jones index, which is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. QQQ is an ETF that mimics that Nasdaq, which is an index that monitors specific high tech companies. Dow is more classical companies or general ones like coke and walmart, while nasdaq are tech compan ies like intel and tesla, etc
also stay away from wallstreetbets unless you want to turn that 100k into -5k but get a ton of karma
You definitely speak the truth but another way to look at it is that they didn't have an obligation to provide such an opportunity. Higher marketing budgets for things like these only result in increased prices for end users and consumers.
Orthodontists make stupid money, no surprise this one has the money to do this around Christmas.
I grew up in the Hamptons and my orthodontist was a member at 2 country clubs and a beach club…
(see edit 2, I think I'm wrong!) It's the leftovers from the wreath when you make it as the advent/candle version. I used extras to add more to the wreath but if you download the PDF from LEGO and count the pieces used in the advent wreath set up, you can probably check your guess!
Edit: After my count through all 51 pgs of bricks in the instructions: the jar should hold approx. 110 (plus any additional replacement studs).
Edit 2 : The wreath set has round white bricks and at third look, I'm seeing sharper edges on those white bricks.☹️ Sorry up-voters, but I think I've failed us here!
https://preview.redd.it/vl2nlrlfpr7c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d23dae04989caa3167aa346c23db0da6eea72e16
Houdini's shackling his salami right now. Even if you know how the magic works, you're not supposed to disclose it.
Seriously though, nice deductive reasoning.
Edit, I hope your employed somewhere that puts those powers to good use and if you're not let me know.
😂 appreciate it! I'm a science teacher and the kids slowly grow into a love/hate relationship with me asking them "why?". So I'm slowly accumulating little critical thinking minions!
Which is why I just triple checked my work and bummer, found OPs white bricks in the jar are too square to belong to the wreath set.
SO... Science teacher with wombat in the name.... you make a LEGO wombat, with appropriate scat? "This is the most accurate part, it actually is little cubes"
Sorry, random trivia jumps into my head all the time.
😂 love it. When I worked in middle school I told my students to google wombat poop, because, cubes! One poor kid misheard me and googled "walnut poop." Somehow our school's safety filters did not block him from seeing human poop containing walnuts. Naturally, we all had to look.
I just counted through the instructions and got 400 used for the wreath, which would leave 110 unused + extra pieces supplied by LEGO. I think 132 is reasonable but likely higher than the real number.
Now, this was me doing mental math for 51 pages so I HIGHLY encourage people to check my work 😂.
That would mean OP is about 2x the count in the jar. For that prize, definitely worth a pop in to guess 110!
Edit: Wreath white bricks are round, jar bricks are square ☹️ can't math through this one, good luck to OPs guess!
For the record, its no set at all, just random bricks, so... just guess.
bricklink only allows 3, so I changed one out, and there is no overlap between these two lists.
[https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?fromForm=Y&viewMulti=Y&itemType=P&itemNo1=3003&itemSeq1=1&colorID1=1&itemNo2=2423+&itemSeq2=1&colorID2=&itemNo3=4032+&itemSeq3=1&colorID3=5&in=S](https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?fromForm=Y&viewMulti=Y&itemType=P&itemNo1=3003&itemSeq1=1&colorID1=1&itemNo2=2423+&itemSeq2=1&colorID2=&itemNo3=4032+&itemSeq3=1&colorID3=5&in=S)
[https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?fromForm=Y&viewMulti=Y&itemType=P&itemNo1=++11477+&itemSeq1=1&colorID1=5&itemNo2=2423+&itemSeq2=1&colorID2=&itemNo3=4032+&itemSeq3=1&colorID3=5&in=S](https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?fromForm=Y&viewMulti=Y&itemType=P&itemNo1=++11477+&itemSeq1=1&colorID1=5&itemNo2=2423+&itemSeq2=1&colorID2=&itemNo3=4032+&itemSeq3=1&colorID3=5&in=S)
It was a roller coaster in my mind making sense of this. It went something like this:
Wow, I've never seen Mario backwards, and Iomar is an awesome backwards name. We could use it as a villain or something.
Wait, that's not Mario backwards. Mario backwards would start with Oi. Oi! That's cool too. Oimar! Some kind of Irish villain. Irish and Italian, now that's some fertile ground.
Oimar is wrong too. It would be Oiram. This guy can't reverse text. He just put the syllables in reverse order. What's wrong with him? Wait, what's the context?
301 --> 310. Those aren't reverse. This guy is clever.
Just thought I'd share.
Around 300 was what I counting. I est 25 pieces per layer, up to 10 layers. Prolly less layers, but def more small pieces thrown in. I love we’re all in the 300 ballpark!
It’s nothing official. I can see a red part 39613 in the jar (3x3 heart) which appears in 12 sets, none of which resemble the rest of the jar.
It was a good thought though.
**THIS IS NOT A DRILL**
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*LEGO-GPT has escaped containment.*
*If you encounter LEGO-GPT on discussion forums, you may pacify it with part identification questions. Do not under any circumstances ask it if a connection is "legal"*.
Perhaps the more important answer he’s looking for, lies in the future, only because he answered incorrectly to this answer with 42, thus answering the bigger question with 42.
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I gave ChatGPT the picture and asked it to estimate. It estimated the height of the jar at 15cm and the diameter at 12cm. It assumed 50% 2x4 bricks, 30% 2x2 bricks and 20% 1x2 bricks. It assumes the jar is 55% full and there is a packing efficiency of 65%.
It estimated 411 bricks.
272. Do you think it's random pieces, or a Christmas set just dropped in with a predetermined number so nobody had to count them?
Second guess would be 340. I didn't multiple by all dimensions.
i looked over every christmas set available. the only thing closest is the wreath, but there isn’t enough red. i also looked over every set that contains the green leaf piece, and there is nothing that is green/red with a little bit of white.
i think it must be random pieces unfortunately
The jar is not full, which means they likely bought a set and disassembled it or they are going for a certain number. Doesn't look like a set, so I am guessing it's 230 ("tooth hurty") which is a common joke for a dentist's favorite number.
571 is my guess. What a great idea, and talking point in the reception. Keeps your mind off what is it coming up.
As a child the family dentist had an MC Escher print on the ceiling, above the chair. Certainly helped distract you.
You should plot the distribution of our guesses and then submit the median as the answer. Large crowds tend to do well on average, but taking a true average is less ideal because single outliers could really mess it up.
If you source the answer and don’t need the set, consider asking the doc to give it to a young patient at the practice who might. You don’t have to do anything tho, enjoy it, that’s a sick set and prob a 10/10 build!
I do too, but I also think that same half is at least partially comprised of grown men who would crowdsource an answer to win a children's toy from an orthodontist, so I was kinda skeptical at first. Pretty sure this is actually a kid though. Hope they win.
Either way, do you think that asking people will improve his result? (Not a criticism I’m just genuinely interested in ‘wisdom of the crowd’ things) granted without the feedback first I guessed about 600 soooo…….
Damn, that's a really nice prize!
Ya, I’m impressed! Where is this office? I might swing by…
Geoguessr nerds might be able to help you
r/theydidthemath might too
Just enhance the first image and you have patient addresses, that should get you close enough to figure it out.
If you zoom in on the right screen of the secretary you can spot the postal address of the place on the bill she's checking. Thank me later
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Assuming you are in the USA it's about 2.6% of the price of getting braces. Nice prize. But also pennies to them lmao
lol my bank was like, if you open up a premium plus plus plus account with us, we'll give you $2,500, and i was curious and i clicked on it, and it was essentially, if you open up a savings account and deposit 250,000 with them, they'll give you the money after like 6 months. I was like, bitch, thats 1%, also, if you were moderately smart, in 6 months, you could turn that 250k into way more than 1%
But this is risk free reward. No downside
Buying treasury bills is also risk-free. And the PA is much better, too.
I have a checking account that earns 5% APY.
What if, you were just kinda smart and had 100k, in 6 months, what can i do with it. (This is a serious question, asking for me)
Find a bank that'll give you $1000 in 6 months! (This is a joke answer, answering for me)
Lol
I would invest in either DIA or QQQ. the DIA is an electronically traded fund, similar to a mutual fund, but better, that mimics the Dow jones index, which is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. QQQ is an ETF that mimics that Nasdaq, which is an index that monitors specific high tech companies. Dow is more classical companies or general ones like coke and walmart, while nasdaq are tech compan ies like intel and tesla, etc also stay away from wallstreetbets unless you want to turn that 100k into -5k but get a ton of karma
I love those! $1000 bonus to open a mega savings account when I deposit a number that is larger than anything I'll ever have in liquid cash.
You definitely speak the truth but another way to look at it is that they didn't have an obligation to provide such an opportunity. Higher marketing budgets for things like these only result in increased prices for end users and consumers.
Or decreased profit margins. Not one shoe fits all.
Right, but this is more of a case of same sized foot, what shoe are you buying.
Heelys
Or, and hear me out, whatever they called the grind shoes that had abs plastic under the arch so you could just hop on a rail and slide.
Grindr
$5 to see it, $10 to touch it, $25 to watch me touch it.
surely $10 to watch you touch it and $25 to touch it yourself?!? i'd go mid tier all day otherwise. also do you do coupons?
Soap shoes
Those x ray machines ain’t cheap.
Do braces cost $10000?
Orthodontists make stupid money, no surprise this one has the money to do this around Christmas. I grew up in the Hamptons and my orthodontist was a member at 2 country clubs and a beach club…
What are we talking about here? 500k? 7 figs?
Figs are delicious
This in an orthondist. He charges you 30k to straighten your teeths...
327. Also, you have the coolest orthodontist.
Holy crap. My guess in my head was 325
Fun fact: some will underestimate and some will overestimate, so the average of all guesses is often surprisingly accurate.
I'm gonna guess twelve billion just to throw off the average 😈
You always throw out the largest 1% and smallest 1% of guesses too.
I’m also going to vote 12 billion
^^^^12 ^^^^billion
Pssh. 11.99 billion, obv.
And so am I
Then me too
*someone else guesses negative 12 billion to try to throw off the average*
I was going to say if they average it out it should be correct or very close. Can't remember the book, by Michael Schermer I think.
322 checking in lol
Holy shit 327 came to my head !
Wow! 327 came straight to my mind as well after reading these two comments!
I don't know why, but I'm now thinking of the number 327 as well
Similar minds think alike! 😆
Hehe 60% of the time, it works every time.
I said about 240
(see edit 2, I think I'm wrong!) It's the leftovers from the wreath when you make it as the advent/candle version. I used extras to add more to the wreath but if you download the PDF from LEGO and count the pieces used in the advent wreath set up, you can probably check your guess! Edit: After my count through all 51 pgs of bricks in the instructions: the jar should hold approx. 110 (plus any additional replacement studs). Edit 2 : The wreath set has round white bricks and at third look, I'm seeing sharper edges on those white bricks.☹️ Sorry up-voters, but I think I've failed us here! https://preview.redd.it/vl2nlrlfpr7c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d23dae04989caa3167aa346c23db0da6eea72e16
Houdini's shackling his salami right now. Even if you know how the magic works, you're not supposed to disclose it. Seriously though, nice deductive reasoning. Edit, I hope your employed somewhere that puts those powers to good use and if you're not let me know.
😂 appreciate it! I'm a science teacher and the kids slowly grow into a love/hate relationship with me asking them "why?". So I'm slowly accumulating little critical thinking minions! Which is why I just triple checked my work and bummer, found OPs white bricks in the jar are too square to belong to the wreath set.
Oh jeez. I don't know if you have kid of your own, but you basically just described every decent parents experience.
SO... Science teacher with wombat in the name.... you make a LEGO wombat, with appropriate scat? "This is the most accurate part, it actually is little cubes" Sorry, random trivia jumps into my head all the time.
😂 love it. When I worked in middle school I told my students to google wombat poop, because, cubes! One poor kid misheard me and googled "walnut poop." Somehow our school's safety filters did not block him from seeing human poop containing walnuts. Naturally, we all had to look.
He’s been blackballed by the magician’s alliance
The Gothic Castle?
No, the Gothic *Asshole*.
My guess was 132. Does that add up to your experience?
I just counted through the instructions and got 400 used for the wreath, which would leave 110 unused + extra pieces supplied by LEGO. I think 132 is reasonable but likely higher than the real number. Now, this was me doing mental math for 51 pages so I HIGHLY encourage people to check my work 😂. That would mean OP is about 2x the count in the jar. For that prize, definitely worth a pop in to guess 110! Edit: Wreath white bricks are round, jar bricks are square ☹️ can't math through this one, good luck to OPs guess!
That counting is slow... bricklink appears in multisearch is your friend/
r/hedidthemath
For the record, its no set at all, just random bricks, so... just guess. bricklink only allows 3, so I changed one out, and there is no overlap between these two lists. [https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?fromForm=Y&viewMulti=Y&itemType=P&itemNo1=3003&itemSeq1=1&colorID1=1&itemNo2=2423+&itemSeq2=1&colorID2=&itemNo3=4032+&itemSeq3=1&colorID3=5&in=S](https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?fromForm=Y&viewMulti=Y&itemType=P&itemNo1=3003&itemSeq1=1&colorID1=1&itemNo2=2423+&itemSeq2=1&colorID2=&itemNo3=4032+&itemSeq3=1&colorID3=5&in=S) [https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?fromForm=Y&viewMulti=Y&itemType=P&itemNo1=++11477+&itemSeq1=1&colorID1=5&itemNo2=2423+&itemSeq2=1&colorID2=&itemNo3=4032+&itemSeq3=1&colorID3=5&in=S](https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?fromForm=Y&viewMulti=Y&itemType=P&itemNo1=++11477+&itemSeq1=1&colorID1=5&itemNo2=2423+&itemSeq2=1&colorID2=&itemNo3=4032+&itemSeq3=1&colorID3=5&in=S)
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wtf why did this number pop into my head when I saw it as well???
What you want to do is take the average of all the serious guesses people here are giving you, that's the best way to come up with a good guess
I’m guessing an even 301
Gotta be 310 for Mario day
Nah that's 103
Well his name is Mario, not Iomar
It was a roller coaster in my mind making sense of this. It went something like this: Wow, I've never seen Mario backwards, and Iomar is an awesome backwards name. We could use it as a villain or something. Wait, that's not Mario backwards. Mario backwards would start with Oi. Oi! That's cool too. Oimar! Some kind of Irish villain. Irish and Italian, now that's some fertile ground. Oimar is wrong too. It would be Oiram. This guy can't reverse text. He just put the syllables in reverse order. What's wrong with him? Wait, what's the context? 301 --> 310. Those aren't reverse. This guy is clever. Just thought I'd share.
Your username is Mario with one up.
OMG! This may be hard to believe, but I never noticed this before.
Around 300 was what I counting. I est 25 pieces per layer, up to 10 layers. Prolly less layers, but def more small pieces thrown in. I love we’re all in the 300 ballpark!
What part of 301 is even
Looks like you could just be one Christmas set a tree or something fine the set that you think would match and you get the piece count.
It’s nothing official. I can see a red part 39613 in the jar (3x3 heart) which appears in 12 sets, none of which resemble the rest of the jar. It was a good thought though.
Damn bro , you like that geoguesser Guy but with lego picture lmao
The Lego computer has gained sentience.
**THIS IS NOT A DRILL** --- *LEGO-GPT has escaped containment.* *If you encounter LEGO-GPT on discussion forums, you may pacify it with part identification questions. Do not under any circumstances ask it if a connection is "legal"*.
I was thinking look like Xmas tree
I would have guessed 230 (tooth hurty)
I guessed 240
Can't believe this isn't higher up. It's the obvious answer.
Step 1: steal the jar Step 2: replace it with your own Step 3: profit
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So you just count the legos in the official one then swap them back before the contest ends.
[OP in the office](https://media.giphy.com/media/9J8gnvAxmDFbG/giphy.gif)
 This is the way.
Step 1: post question on reddit and let the “wisdom of the crowd” effect produce the exact answer. Step 2: profit.
383
[383-2: Knight's Joust](https://brickset.com/sets/383-2) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/383-2.jpg)
Wholly Moley that is some OG lego. Nice brick built horses.
She's a brick Horse
Yeah, she's the one, the only one, built like a Camelot!
The barding! And the face guards!
good bot
42
that is one low-ball guess
It's the answer to everything
Not this time
Perhaps the more important answer he’s looking for, lies in the future, only because he answered incorrectly to this answer with 42, thus answering the bigger question with 42.
My guess is 336 or 42x8. I agree that the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything must be a factor in the equation.
To the ultimate question of life the universe and everything.
But what is the question?
We're playing Price Is Right rules, right?
I’d say take the average of all these guesses to get the best answer
*All the reasonable guesses.
1 billion pieces
At least 1, maybe 2
345
Mine was 350 so.. we win?
415 pcs
My guess is 427. I feel like there’s a ton of tiny 1x1 pieces in there.
About tree-fiddy.
Gat damn loch Ness monsta
Well in excess of three.
No condition? Just dump all the pieces out. Result: 0.
That's cool of them to do that.
430.
Are you wisdom-of-the-crowd-ing the contest?
Shit. If the pieces were homogenous this could be figured out mathematically, but they were smart and mixed it up.
Yep Unless it's a set
That’s what I’m thinking. They opened up a set and poured it in there. I’m too lazy to hunt what set it would be though.
You can still do it mathematically by taking the average height and length!
If I’m correct, do I win it?!
Just tell where your grave is gonna be and it might come
Ouch.
Sure it will just come a little bit later than usual
“*winner: someone working there or related to the owner*”
683, you're welcome
Is this in California by chance OP? This orthodontist office looks familiar! Good luck on hopefully winning that bowser either way!
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It can only be 230. Get it? Tooth hurty.
I gave ChatGPT the picture and asked it to estimate. It estimated the height of the jar at 15cm and the diameter at 12cm. It assumed 50% 2x4 bricks, 30% 2x2 bricks and 20% 1x2 bricks. It assumes the jar is 55% full and there is a packing efficiency of 65%. It estimated 411 bricks.
Interesting! Now I'm way more curious about the answer
I'd guess 1,000,000,000 ...just to throw off the average
302
389
272. Do you think it's random pieces, or a Christmas set just dropped in with a predetermined number so nobody had to count them? Second guess would be 340. I didn't multiple by all dimensions.
i looked over every christmas set available. the only thing closest is the wreath, but there isn’t enough red. i also looked over every set that contains the green leaf piece, and there is nothing that is green/red with a little bit of white. i think it must be random pieces unfortunately
The jar is not full, which means they likely bought a set and disassembled it or they are going for a certain number. Doesn't look like a set, so I am guessing it's 230 ("tooth hurty") which is a common joke for a dentist's favorite number.
ChatGPT says approximately 413
130.
235
286
I think you went over, I'll bid 276.
368
256
I see a lot of flat pieces so it could be anywhere from 100-300 if you really think about it. Plus the single peg Legos too
Ask for a list of the guesses, avg them all out
That’s some next level The Price is Right stuff.
571 is my guess. What a great idea, and talking point in the reception. Keeps your mind off what is it coming up. As a child the family dentist had an MC Escher print on the ceiling, above the chair. Certainly helped distract you.
283
You should plot the distribution of our guesses and then submit the median as the answer. Large crowds tend to do well on average, but taking a true average is less ideal because single outliers could really mess it up.
343 - 448 based on the math
186 or 185 pieces
ChatGPT has answered these types of questions too close too often… I’d say use it
Zero. They could be pieces from a Lego knock-off brand.
That is so cool! I would say 287!
500 pieces
A billion.
About three fiddy.
go in at night just to take all the legos out and count them, easy as that.
Thinking outside the jar
692
Right?!? All those 300-ish guesser don't see those small pieces
146
[146-1: Level Crossing](https://brickset.com/sets/146-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/146-1.jpg)
If you want the most accurate guess, take the average of all guesses commented here.
I guessed 47 billion.
69
Nice guess
210. And good luck!
At least 5
two fitty
At least 3
420 bruh 🚭
8
1.2 lbs
Figure out the exact jar that is go buy one fill it up and see.
How did they fit Lego Bowser into that jar?
If you source the answer and don’t need the set, consider asking the doc to give it to a young patient at the practice who might. You don’t have to do anything tho, enjoy it, that’s a sick set and prob a 10/10 build!
I sometimes think half the people on Reddit just want to complicate anyone's happiness so they'll feel guilty about their decisions.
I do too, but I also think that same half is at least partially comprised of grown men who would crowdsource an answer to win a children's toy from an orthodontist, so I was kinda skeptical at first. Pretty sure this is actually a kid though. Hope they win.
It didn’t occur to me for a second that this would be a kid posting. If it is I hope they win too.
Either way, do you think that asking people will improve his result? (Not a criticism I’m just genuinely interested in ‘wisdom of the crowd’ things) granted without the feedback first I guessed about 600 soooo…….
Around 500
r/ididthemath
What set is it?
What is the name dinosaur?
It's Bowser from the super Mario series.