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Imagine a red balloon tied to the doorknob of your hotel room. A balloon on a string looks like a number 9: now you can remember your room number. This is how a simple memory system works. The problem is, the system only goes up to 10; number 9 may look like a balloon on a string but what does number 23 look like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I found out that the Earth tilts at an angle of 23 degrees I was inspired to find images for numbers 1-100. My own system was born and a whole world of knowledge started opening up. Then my Danish friend Tine said: ‘I think this could be a game…’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine a red balloon tied to the doorknob of your hotel room. A balloon on a string looks like a number 9: now you can remember your room number. This is how a simple memory system works. The problem is, the system only goes up to 10; number 9 may look like a balloon on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jezalborough.com\/numberwondersgame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jezalborough.com\/numberwondersgame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jezalborough.com\/numberwondersgame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jezalborough.com\/numberwondersgame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jezalborough.com\/numberwondersgame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jezalborough.com\/numberwondersgame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/jezalborough.com\/numberwondersgame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jezalborough.com\/numberwondersgame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}