I’m a biologist, undergrad was tons of memorizing lists of vaguely related words. Since it’s an additive list and it’s literally the only thing I’d have to do, 100+ at least. 200+ if it forms any sort of coherent sentence. Every day, all I’d be doing is practicing the previous list and learning one new word.

Edit: for giggles, I calculated how much you’d earn at 100 days, then 200. The formula is T= 1000(n(n+1))/2 for anyone who is curious.

At 100 days, you’d have $5,050,000.

At 200, $20,100,000.

My neighbour plays this game with us. He has a pile of cards. Every card has a word on it. Short and long all mixed up. You shuffle the deck and he laysbdown the cards one by one. After he went throigh the cards he just szs the wordt in order from memory. He can get up to 150 card. He never rails before 100.

Honestly? I’m failing day one. Took me until my mid-twenties just to memorise the order of months.

I have a terrible memory, but for the money you’re giving, I would invest a decent amount of time into reciting this over and over for hours and make it into a game the best I can. Considering the potential of this making all my financial issues go away, it seems like a very easy solution.

As it sounds like there’s no risk involved (ie, if I get 5 days right and then the 6th one wrong, I still keep all the money from the 5 days), I think I could probably do this for at least 10 days and probably more. Which would work out at $55k, I think? Not too bad.

For anyone wondering, I think you’d have to keep going for 141 days to get to a million. Keep it up for a year and you’d win $66,795,000.

A billion would take 1414 days (3.87 years), and to pass Musk’s current total (480.1b, according to a quick search) you’d need to keep getting it right for… longer than I’m willing spend time on to make my spreadsheet calculate. I’m sure there a formula to work it out, but I’ll leave that to someone else :-)

Currently on day 197.

Whoops.

I’ve said too much.

I am very unsure. With your example, I think I could go for awhile, those particular words are pretty sticky, I could chant them mentally, make a tune & sing them. And I’d be motivated, first day it’s already it’s already more than I make at work, right? So this is the new job? I would try for a month, a cool half million would certainly fix our budget even after taxes.

Correct horse, battery staple

What I don’t know is whether I could avoid cheating - if my kids heard me singing these they would pick it up and they have wicked good memories. They would be chanting it the next day. And if I couldn’t say them out loud it would make it more difficult. So might be immediately DQ’d.

Memorizing the first 5 words would be the hardest, after that any mnemonic technique would allow you to keep going for a LONG time since it’s essentially memorizing one word a day.

Three tops

depends on how it’s delivered. If it’s all at once then around 7 as it would be my maximum for working memory. If I could make the input piecemeal then 100+ with great effort would be possible. For the first few days I would need to hit the research about mnemotechnics and learn it how to do it.

When I was busking I had about 60 songs memorised. The first few I learned took ages to cement themselves, but the more I learned the easier it was to learn new ones. Memory is like a muscle; the more you use it the better it works. I haven’t played in public in about ten years, but I’ve still got a couple of dozen songs I can remember, and it only takes a little brushing up to get back the ones I’m rusty on.

I think people would do better at this challenge than they expect.

I’d give it about a week before my cryptolalia betrays me.

I memorised 100 digits of pi 20 years ago so I’ll just use those, I can get $100k easy. Finally this will come in handy for something

In my youth I memorised some 50 digits of pi in a similar fashion for fun. Considering 1000 USD i could and should treat it as a full time job I’m guessing a month or so before my laziness gets in the way and I make a mistake.

Do a web search for “mnemonic technique memory linking”. There’s a technique for just this sort of application.

The pay is more than I make in my current job starting on day 1. 100 days would be over 5 million dollars, enough to retire on. I can devote 8 hours per day for 3.5 months for retirement level money memorizing a list of 100 words.