I feel good after posting about my finding the 8-digit sequential dollar bill (and it was a $1 bill, which made me feel good about putting it away with my other lucky-number sequential bills. It would have been a bummer if it had been a $100 bill. I couldn't let a C-note waste away in a box, no matter how lucky/rare it is).

OK, here is a fun game that you Americans can play. It's called "Find Thirty-One 1's on a Dollar Bill".

The name also contains all the rules.

It's pretty hard. First of all, you almost certainly need a bill that was issued by the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas. Those bills have the number "11" in each of the four corners on the front. That's 8 ones!

You have to look close. There are more "ones"/"1's" than you might realize. You're going to need either some 1's in the serial number, or a couple in those little numbers printed on either side of the front, and in the lower middle on the back of the bill.

I count Roman numerals. There's a long one on the back of the bill, underneath the pyramid. It actually is a number than ends in "6", but a Roman numeral 6 is "VI". The "I" counts as a 1 in my book.

Back in the days when James A. Baker III signed the bills, it was easier to reach 31. I counted his "III" as three 1's. Also, bills issued in the 1900's are good, as well as bills issued in 2001. I can't wait until the 2011's come out - two extra 1's!

I believe my record is 40 1's.

There are numbers on dollar bills?

can i do this with a debit card?

Anxiety said:

No, I just looked.... Well, does the I in vIsa count?

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

if we were like ancient roman i think it would count. but they didn't have debit cards in ancient rome, so i can't rightly say.

Anxiety said:

I feel left out!

You two are being anti-American. I am going to report you to the Committee on Un-American Acts. Soon, a Freedom Officer will be dragging you to your Liberty Cell!





(That was a classic troll post on Yahoo, by a poster called church_of_bush. It cracked me up every time I read it. Unbelievably, every time (s)he posted it, several people thought it was a serious post.)

RodeoSchro said:

i love anti-american! i used to eat spaghettios all the time and sometimes i'd even eat their canned cheese ravioli! it sounds nasty, but if you're trapped in a basement for any amount of time at all, it's seriously really tasty.

Anxiety said:

How many years did you spend in the basement? Id like to know purely for scientific reasons!

Wait! I typed spaghettios into google images and this came up I sware!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

i truly do not want to know what bite size Os have to do with richard simmons

and i don't know how long i was trapped in a basement - i can't even find numbers on a dollar bill, you expect me to calculate time in the dark?!
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Finally, a chance to use one of the emoticons I do not use that often, personally;

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

DigMeNow, that is really cool info. Thanks!

The only one I've ever come close to finding is the near ladder, and that was three days ago. I never thought about looking for them on eBay.