Who hasn't gazed into the mystical Magic 8 Ball with her all-important yes-or-no question and wondered at its fortune-telling advice? The story of how the Magic 8 Ball, originally called The Syco-Seer, came to be is really interesting. The original fortune-telling device was encased in a crystal ball and didn't have the 8-ball packaging until 1950. The Magic 8 Ball is known to have 20 different answers, 10 of the which are affirmative, 5 are negative, and 5 are non-committal, according to the Wikipedia entry. Using the coupon collector's problem in probability theory, it takes, on average, 72 questions of the Magic 8 Ball for all 20 of its answers to appear at least once.
Materials: Magic 8 Ball toy favor, black plastic bead, black bugle beads, peacock blue and purple seed beads, iridescent purple E beads, silver wire
