Talk:Magic 8 Ball

message: How do you put 25 answers on an icosahedron (20 sided object)? I do NOT recall the last 5 "answers". LOL was never on mine from the 60s.
9:51 EDT 7/7/11
:Seems to be vandalism. Fixed now. Brted (talk) 18:47, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Currently claims 23 answers. -- Resuna (talk) 14:04, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: This is due to vandalism. Currently fixed. -Stelio (talk) 11:07, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Sides vs answer numbers

message: This is in regard to the following statement in the Design section of the article: "The die is hollow, with openings in each face, allowing the die to fill with fluid, giving the plastic die minimal buoyancy."
This doesn't make sense. To begin with, as I recall, no holes are apparent on any of the die's faces when viewed through the window.
More importantly, how can a "hollow" die "with openings in each face" and "minimal buoyancy" float to the top of the 8 ball? If the die does indeed have any of these properties, it would sink to the bottom of the liquid-filled chamber and therefore be unviewable.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TJ Dimacali (talk • contribs) 04:01, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Presumably, "minimal bouyancy" indicates that there is just enough bouyancy to float. As I recall, it being years since I've had my hands on one of these, the die comes up sort of slowly rather than popping quickly up (perhaps to give an impression of "thinking"?). I guess that whatever the die is made of has a low enough density to float on its own without needing a hollow interior to bouy it up. Wschart (talk) 20:12, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Minimal buoyancy?

message: I seem to recall the (1960's) text being 'answer hazy try again later' rather than 'reply hazy...'.  Any corroboration of this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.30.78.21 (talk) 15:23, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I am looking at a Magic 8 Ball estimated to date from the 1970s.  It says "Reply hazy try again", except that it uses small caps instead of lower-case letters.  In addition it lacks punctuation, so I will boldly remove the dash that is currently shown in the article for the "try again" answer.  Perhaps this modification counts as original research; if so, feel free to revert it. DavidHolmes0 (talk) 20:41, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Standard answers

message: I would like to know more about the creation of the M8B. Why did Abe choose an 8-ball to answer question?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.32.192.33 (talk) 18:31, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: I think the tyco thing should go in the first sentence.  But if you really don't like that you can move it again and i won't object.  --Heah (talk) 18:50, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Assorted comments

message: I see on the Toys R Us website that a High School Musical variant of the Magic 8-Ball is for sale. It should probably be listed in this article, but I don't know anything about it. Does anyone know it differs from the standard model? Pat Berry 19:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: High School Musical variant

message: Is there a way to get the Contents box to appear above the "Standard Answers" section?  Also, the formatting of the Answers table needs to be cleaned up.  Captain Infinity 18:38, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Contents box is above the "Standard Answers" section already, unless I misunderstand you... and I changed the formatting of the Answers table a bit to neaten it up a little. --Cadby (talk) 15:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Placement of Contents box

message: What is the liquid inside?  Is it colored water... or something more... sinister???  Can you drink it?  Someone find out!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.253.161.126 (talk) 13:55, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In order, the answers are: It's alcohol with dissolved blue dye, no, more sinister, ill-advised. PatrickLMT (talk) 11:33, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Liquid?

message: I reverted an edit which was unsourced. I spent some time performing a web search, and I was not able to find any mention of the information in the edit. If anyone has evidence that the information isn't just fiction, please feel free to re-add it to the article. --Ben James Ben 01:29, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a Sarcastic 9 Ball parody version. That's not what the claim was making. oknazevad (talk) 19:25, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magic 9-ball 

message: I have an Eragon Magic Eight Ball. It has the standard answers though. Should I add the Eragon version to the variants list? Secad (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 18:01, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eragon Magic Eight Ball Variant 

message: Attempts to turn this article into a link farm have been removed. If you would like to discuss these removals, you are invited to do so.⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 15:13, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ...this includes the online variations.⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 14:21, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leaving commercial linking out including online variations

message: This section begins by announcing a list of popular variations, but none of the varieties listed has achieved any degree of widespread adoption. Where sources exist they are dubious - to Amazon or other commercial sites - and by far the majority of these variations are not sourced at all. Lists of trivia are deprecated in Wikipedia and this one sinks an otherwise fine article. If no one objects I plan to delete the section. Alistair Stevenson (talk) 19:36, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal to delete variations section

message: This link: http://www.mattelgamefinder.com/demos.asp?demo=mb copied from the image box is down. It's a stupid flash site, so they probably don't know what permalinks are. 
-Eagleapex (talk) 15:57, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official site link 

message: Why does the article say 18 sides when an icosahedron has 20 sides?  The ball may have only 18 answers, if some are duplicates. If that is the case, it would be cool to know which are and fix the probability section accordingly.--Knulclunk (talk) 14:27, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: FIXED  Found the earlier correct version. It was changed by an IP just a few days ago. --Knulclunk (talk) 14:35, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  18 sides and answers? 

message: One retailer (Amazon) currently sells both a "Mattel 30188 Magic 8 Ball" and a "Magic 8 Ball Retro Edition" (also by Mattel).
The "Retro Edition" is about twice the price of the other one, and the lettering on its packaging appears to be more old-fashioned.
Other than these differences, are there any other differences?
Also: When I first came upon this novelty many years ago, the outer ball seemed to be made of glass, not plastic. Is there a version with glass still available?Daqu (talk) 18:50, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a discussion forum, the talk pages are for discussing how to improve the articles. There's a chance someone might see your question here, but this really isn't the best place to ask, and it's off-topic in any case. —ajf (talk) 19:32, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Differences between models?

message: 173.24.231.55 (talk) 18:31, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: fixed ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 21:28, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link is dead 

message: Why, when the icosahedron has 20 sides, does this article list 23 answers in the "Possible answers" section? --125.63.26.36 (talk) 05:10, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: This is due to vandalism. Currently fixed. -Stelio (talk) 11:07, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  23 answers? 

message: Hiya! I just looked over the article and made some changes. It was mostly copyediting, fixing sentence structure to make the article more readable, and I reorganized the Pop-Culture section chronologically. However, some glaring issues are still present with the article. Namely, a lot of claims are not coupled with sources. I do not have access to some of the sources listed, so I could not double-check with them. Also, do we want to consider adding a section about mysticism, or would it be to off topic? I thought everyone did a great job already, so big thanks!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mumpsoffun (talk • contribs) 00:45, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Things to watch out for. 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved   -- Vaulter 16:37, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Magic 8-Ball →  – Having just reverted a previous undiscussed and incorrect, but good faith, move to lowercase the B, a quick check of the official website shows that this trademark product contains no hyphen in its name. The hyphen is ungrammatical anyway as the "8" is not an adjective here. oknazevad (talk) 19:52, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

text: This is a contested technical request (permalink). oknazevad (talk) 04:33, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the hyphen is ungramatical. But names can be ungrammatical. And in any case, the article largely uses the version with the hyphen. Are you planning to remove the hyphen in the article? Dr. Vogel (talk) 22:22, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course. But I was waiting for the move first. The body is just as erroneous as the title, but the page should match the title until the latter is corrected. As for the name being ungrammatical, the actual name isn't. There was a previous move proposal where the opposers were mistaken in missing the distinction between the game eight-ball (which is so named because it's short for "eight-ball pool", an adjectival usage) and the number eight ball, which is what the toy is modeled after. oknazevad (talk) 00:37, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

text: This is not uncontroversial due to previous RM (and the above). Mdewman6 (talk) 00:50, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 3 May 2022 

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