First things first, I decided to invite my best friend, Karyn, over to my house tomorrow. Early the next morning, Karyn stopped by my house. "Hi, Karyn," said my mom, as she let Karyn in. "Joe's in his room." "OK, thanks." She went to my bedroom door and knocked. "Who is it?" "It's me. Karyn." I opened the door and Karyn walked in. "Are you going to tell me why you called me over here?" she asked. "Because I have a wishing ring." I said. "For real? But how has that have to do with anything?" she asked. "Because I wanted to try something out before I went to school. And I wanted you here with me when I did it." I said. "OK." What was Joe going to do? Karyn was interested even more now. "So, what are you going to wish for?" she asked. "Well, it's not like that. It's sort of an experiment and a game all in one." I said. "What are you talking about?" she asked. I scooped up two dice in the palm of my hand and said: "See these things?" "Yeah?" she said. "All last night, I thought of different characteristics that people could have and I wrote them all down on these dice." I gestured at other dice sitting on the floor. "There will be a time limit. Say a day. And I'll make everyone in town whatever I roll. It's a gamble, so you never know what you'll get. You can even mix them, to make things more interesting. Or weird." I said. "Why do it at all?" she asked "Because I can. Besides, we'll have tons of time to use the ring later." I said. "Good enough for me." she said. "OK, now for the wish." I closed the hand with ring and said "I wish that for as long as I like, everyone in town would become the characteristic of the die or dice rolled and I wish that the ones rolling and the ones near the ones rolling will remember how things were before the rolling of the die or dice." "You thought that out a lot, didn't you?" she asked. "I wanted to make sure it was specific. So, which one do you want?" I asked. "How about that one?" she asked, pointing to one of the dice. I held the die between my fingers. It was the one that had to do with ...