Guess how old Alex will be on Christmas Day
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Task brief
The task brief is presumably laid on the table in the living room. The brief for the task is as follows:
Work out how many days old Alex will be on Christmas Day 2024.
You must make eye contact with Alex throughout the task, and you may only give one answer.
The closest to the correct answer wins.
Task notes
- Alex is seated at the table next to the contestants for this task.
- According to Wikipedia, Alex Horne was born on the 10th of September 1978 (this date is based on his own disclosure on an old blog post). He would therefore have been 16,908 days old on the 25th of December 2024. However, in the studio, Alex states that the actual answer was 17,538, and that Emma was 293 days out with her guess of 17,223. 17,223 plus 293 is 17,516 (not 17,538). Emma’s guess was actually 315 days out from what Alex states is the correct answer. Interestingly, the actual answer, based on Alex’s self-disclosed birth date, is 315 days lower than Emma’s guess. It seems, therefore, that there may have been a mix-up about the direction in which Emma’s estimate diverged from the true answer. It’s not known, though, where the figure of 293 days difference came from.
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