John Conway’s trick for naming the weekday of any date, taught as an explorable rather than a wall of rules. It hands you the remainder idea first — throw away whole weeks, keep the leftover — then the anchor days, and it makes you answer each challenge before a clock ticks over rather than letting you scroll past. Written for kids, and quietly effective on adults who never asked how the trick works.
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