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How to ask the 8-Ball

  1. Type a yes-or-no question and press Ask(or hit Enter). The answer appears in the ball's white window, colour-coded: green-leaning for yes, red for no, amber for the hazy replies.
  2. The last eight exchanges stay listed below the ball so you can look back at its guidance, and Clear forgets everything. Each draw is independent — asking twice changes nothing about the deck.
  3. The ball answers only within its fixed deck of twenty, so it will never say anything it has not said since 1950 — and never anything useful it has not said either.

The twenty-answer deck

The canonical Magic 8-Ball deck splits ten affirmative answers (“It is certainly so”, “Yes”, “Signs point to yes”), five negative (“Don't count on it”, “Very doubtful”) and five deliberate non-answers that bounce the decision back to you (“Reply hazy — try again”, “Concentrate and ask again”). One is drawn uniformly at random per question, in your browser, with nothing stored — the ball is a toy, and it behaves like one.

Also useful: Coin Flip, Dice Roller, and Spin Wheel.