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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. 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.

Instead, look down as you type the answer. Only look up after you've typed the period to check how much of the query is finished. Helpful 78 Not Helpful When you're typing your answer in the petition box try not to make any mistakes, and try not to use the backspace as it could potentially ruin your answer.

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