An 8-ball was used as a fortune-telling device in the 1940 Three Stoogesshort,You Nazty Spy!, and called a "magic ball"
The Magic 8-Ball is a hollow plastic sphere resembling an oversized, black-and-white 8-ball. Inside, a cylindrical reservoir contains a white, plastic icosahedron floating in alcohol dyed dark blue. Each of the die's 20 faces has an affirmative, negative, or non-committal statement printed in raised letters. These messages are read through a window on the ball's bottom.
To use the ball, it must be held with the window initially facing down. After "asking the ball" a yes–no question, the user then turns the ball so that the window faces up, setting in motion the liquid and die inside. When the die floats to the top and one face presses against the window, the raised letters displace the blue liquid to reveal the message as white letters on a blue background. Although many users shake the ball before turning it upright, the instructions warn against doing so to avoid white bubbles, which interfere with the performance of the ball itself.
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The 20 answers inside a standard Magic 8-Ball are:
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We gotta get Ron, Bob, Dave and Gerald admitting to the Yellowsand Reds and aware that their Greens are suspect or they might lose credibility as the chosen and all knowing shepherds of the sheep