Sadly, Peter Answers can't read your mind or see the future. So how does Peter Answers work? Well, you have to type in the answer you want Peter to give. To do this, enter a period into the petition field. Then, type the answer you want. Whatever you type, the field will display "Peter please answer the following question. When you've finished typing the answer, enter another period.
You can use as many periods as necessary to get the full petition text to display. In the petition field, I could type something like ". No, you will never find love, except in your dreams. Note the two periods on either side of the sentence, which are essential to process the trick, but they won't show in the actual answer. Move to the question field and type your question.
Once submitted, you will then see the answer you typed earlier displayed. To ask another question, click the plus icon. Obviously, you can't play this trick on yourself! Instead, use it to fool others. It works especially well if you're a quick typist and the other person doesn't watch your keyboard. Of course, after a while, your companion might cotton on, so it's good to have a lineup of victims to trick.
The Peter Answers website is optimized for mobile, so it works just fine if you want to pull it up on your phone's web browser. For the committed, there's an Android app. It's free, supported by adverts at the bottom, and works in entirely the same way. Simply type a period into the petition to disguise your answer. You can swipe from the left to reveal a menu, from where you get basic options: How to play , Share , and Rate this app.
In fact, the How to play page doesn't tell you the secrets of Peter Answers at all. So if you do forget what you need to do, refer to this article. Currently, there's no official app for iOS. In the past, there was a knock-off Peter Answers app for iOS, but it's no longer available. That said, it might crop up again in the future. Download: Peter Answers for Android Free.
If you want to take a peek behind the scenes, or perhaps take a shot at building your own version of Peter Answers, take a look at this GitHub project. It's a relatively simple bit of code, so if you have programming experience, then you can use this GitHub project to tweak it to your heart's content. Perhaps you want to change the petition phrase? Or add some new responses for Peter? With this source code, you can do exactly that. Related: What Is GitHub? An Introduction to Its Basic Features.
You might also stumble across Ask Jud , which is basically exactly the same as Peter Answers, but under a different name. However, if you have a particularly gullible companion, you could use this to trick them twice the same way. For something a bit different, check out Akinator. This is a genie that can guess anyone you're thinking of: real or fictional. It does this by going through a series of questions and using the previous answers to work out who the person is.
Download Article Explore this Article Steps. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Article Summary. Author Info Last Updated: August 10, Visit Peter Answers. There you'll see two text boxes: "Petition" and "Question. Ask someone for a question. This is what you'll ask Peter.
If you already know the answer, proceed to the next step. If it's a question you don't know the answer to, you can ask them for the answer, telling them that if they say the question and answer out loud, Peter will hear them with his psychic powers.
If you don't know the answer, you won't be able to follow the next step, and Peter will answer with a very generic statement like "You shall not doubt of me at all, keep trusting on me and soon I'll answer.
In the petition box, press. The extra periods will not appear in your secret answer. Press : to move the cursor to the question box. This is essential because it signals your secret answer is done.
Moreover, without the colon, you will not be able to proceed to the question box. You may have to agree to a liability release before you can move to the next step.
Watch for Peter's answer. He should display the response that you typed. If your audience doesn't know that you typed in the answer, they will be flabbergasted. You can probably keep them amazed for quite a while as long as they don't start paying close attention to what your fingers are actually typing.
Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. By using this service, some information may be shared with YouTube. Peter will accept and display answers that are longer than the petition phrase, but it will be pretty obvious something is up if you continue to type after the screen displays the entire petition phrase.
Nothing more will show up once you've reached the end of the phrase. Helpful Not Helpful You can also tell your viewers to stare at the screen so that they can correct any spelling errors that you might make. Peter is only as accurate as you are, so if you enter a typo, Peter will answer with a typo, and people will get suspicious pretty quickly.
If you think you made a mistake, you can backspace and start again at any point. If you delete all of what you entered, press Clear and start over; remember to enter a period again to signal to Peter that you're entering the answer. Note that deleting everything you entered is not a good idea because people will wonder why you're erasing a perfectly good petition.
Helpful 95 Not Helpful Helpful 50 Not Helpful If somebody asks a question that you don't know the answer to, it is best to just type "I cannot answer the following question. Helpful 69 Not Helpful As soon as you type a colon ":" the cursor will automatically jump to the question box, even if you haven't finished typing out the petition.
This will likely ruin the illusion, so don't accidentally type that colon too soon. Helpful 86 Not Helpful When you're typing in the petition box, it helps to NOT look at the screen, because it can throw you off and make you forget what you're typing.
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