What is magic eight balls?
Magic Eight Ball® is a toy trademark that Mattel Toys, based in El Segundo, California. The toy is designed in the form of a black plastic ball with a browsing window, allowing the user to see a 20 -sided matrix printed with various messages that float to the top of the blue liquid cylinder when the ball is rotated so that the monitoring window is directed. Magic Eight Ball® is only able to answer yes or no questions, and it is one of many divinations, such as Ouija, which are quite popular in some parts of the world. The connection between the pool and the divination is unclear, but in 1946 designed Abe Bookman from Alabe Toy Company toy, called it Syco-Seer and connected it with clean crystal balls used by Fortune Tears. The toy was awarded the name Magic Eight Ball® and the rights were sold to Tyco Toys, a company later bought by Mattel.
Died inside Magic Eight Ball® is in the shape of icosahedron and is made of white material with increased script in ordinary Sans Serif font. When a floating into the observation window died, a thin layer of blue liquid settles around the inscription, causing white background to appear on the blue background. The user traditionally holds Magic Eight Ball® with a painted numeric in eight direction to ask YES or NO, and then overturns the ball and reveals the browsing window. After a while to die floating and the answer appears.
of 20 response options, 10 answers clearly means yes, for example "with most likely" and "no doubt". Five pages suggest that the answer is no, including "my answer is no" and "Don't count on it". The remaining five -pages are used for ambiguous answers, such as "HAZY answer, try again" or "Ask again later". Statistically, this means that The Magic Eight Ball® is likely to provide a positive answer to the question.
besides being a toy forChildren and adults, The Magic Eight Ball® also appears in popular culture, usually in the context of character consultations in a book or screen. Several variants on Magic Eight Ball® were also produced, including sarcastic eight balls, affirmative balls and love balls. Most toys and news stores are carried by the original Magic Eight Ball®.