Your shoes can tell your age

[JuST Peter]

Your shoes can tell your age - grab your calculator first! 
 
This is strange, and....the damn thing actually works!! !!!!
 
Your shoes can tell you your age, try this and see:
1. Take your shoe size.(only whole sizes)
2. Multiply it by 5.
 3. Add 50.
 4. Multiply by 20 ..
 5. Add 1013.
 6. Subtract the year you were born?

   The first digit/s is your shoe size, while the last 2 digits are your age..
 
 TRY IT? YOU WILL BE amazed!!

[Poppy Dave]

Don't know if it's me, the calculator or what but.........................

I'm 65 and I take a size 12 and it worked out at 125 ?

WHERE DID I GO WRONG ????????????????????

[Shiney]

Bang on the money... I'm 33 years old

Don't know if it's me, the calculator or what but.........................

I'm 65 and I take a size 12 and it worked out at 125 ?

WHERE DID I GO WRONG ????????????????????

Hope this helps Dave...

1. Take your shoe size.(only whole sizes)   12
2. Multiply it by 5.      60
 3. Add 50.      110
 4. Multiply by 20 ..      2200
 5. Add 1013.      3213
 6. Subtract the year you were born?      1265

   The first digit/s is your shoe size, 12 while the last 2 digits are your age.. 65
 

[Wombat]

does it work for other sizes 
Imperial maybe or metric 

 

[Couch]

Spot on for me as well!

[Biggles]

It's one of several circular arithmetic puzzles.  It's a very clever number manipulation, but you told the equation your age when you entered your DOB.  No need to look anxiously over your shoulder!   

[JuST Peter]

Where/when did we give our DOB?

[Biggles]

Where/when did we give our DOB?

1. Take your shoe size.(only whole sizes)
2. Multiply it by 5.
 3. Add 50.
 4. Multiply by 20 ..
 5. Add 1013.
 6. Subtract the year you were born?

[Couch]

      

Where/when did we give our DOB?

[JuST Peter]

Where/when did we give our DOB?

1. Take your shoe size.(only whole sizes)
2. Multiply it by 5.
 3. Add 50.
 4. Multiply by 20 ..
 5. Add 1013.
 6. Subtract the year you were born?

Aha! Obviously you're more than just a pretty face Bill   

[Biggles]

No one else thought it odd that step 5 involved the number "13"?  The puzzle usually comes out in November when 83% of people have already had their birthday (except Jesus, but he didn't have the internet).

[JuST Peter]

No one else thought it odd that step 5 involved the number "13"?  The puzzle usually comes out in November when 83% of people have already had their birthday (except Jesus, but he didn't have the internet).

It's handy having you around to show us how stuff works Bill