I Can Still Read Your Mind

Cable was out most of the day, so here is another mathematically inclined mind trick for you. Grab pencil and paper, or a calculator ... ready?

1. Pick a number between 1 and 9
   
   
2. Subtract 5
   
   
3. Multiply by 3
   
   
4. Square the number (multiply the number by itself)
   
   
5. Add the digits of that number together, for example, if your number is 83, you would add 8 and 3 and get 11.
   
   
6. If the resulting number is less than 5, add five, otherwise subtract 4
   
   
7. Multiply by 2
   
   
8. Subtract 6
   
   
9. Assign a letter to your number. A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, etc
   
   
10. Pick a country that begins with your letter
    
    
11. Pick an animal that begins with the second letter from your country
    
    
12. Think of the traditional color of that animal ...
    

While the Order of the Elephant is the highest honor of Denmark, you won't find many real grey elephants there (outside of zoos, that is).

Now, you may have really thought outside the box and come with a brown emu, or maybe even elk. If you were really slippery, you might have come up with a black eel. But, I'm fairly sure you wound up with Denmark ... though Deutschland (Germany) is a possibility.

No, you thought of a grey elephant in Denmark. ~.^