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Pi Eating Contest

The Pi Eating Contest will be a competition of both brain and brawn, stamina and smarts, deduction and digestion. The rules are simple. Each player will be placed in front of a table containing cupcakes with digits “0″ through “9″ frosted onto them. There will be approximately ten of each digit, meaning each contestant will have one hundred cupcakes in front of them.

Normally, an eating competition is to see who can eat a set quantity of food the fastest. Eating food quickly is boring. Each player will not only have to eat a bunch of cupcakes, they will have to eat the cupcakes in order of the consecutive digits of pi. So first you must eat a “3″ cupcake, then a “1″ cupcake, then “4″ cupcake. As you eat farther and farther, you may lose track of where in pi you are, or become so sick that you cannot remember the next digit. Since this is as much a contest of memory as stomach capacity, contestants will wear noise canceling headphones with loud music playing to prevent them from hearing the audience.

The winner is the one who can eat the most consecutive cupcakes without going out of the order of pi or becoming sick. The best part is, since pi isn’t uniformly distributed early on (http://www.mathwithmrherte.com/pi_distribution.htm), there are plenty of cupcakes for the spectators to eat afterwards!