The Oracle octopus has spoken again

Octopus oracle predicts a German soccer defeat to Spain

Paul the Octopus hovering over the Spanish plastic container
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Paul makes his selection by eating a mussel from one of two boxes
An octopus famed for his skill at predicting winners of World Cup soccer matches has selected Spain to beat Germany in Wednesday's semifinal. German fans will be hoping this is Paul the octopus' first wrong prediction.


With a 100 percent record in the 2010 World Cup so far, Paul the octopus has a perfect track record at predicting the outcome of Germany's games.

Housed at Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen, Paul has correctly predicted the four German wins and even the surprise group stage loss to Serbia.

On Tuesday, Paul was once again given the choice of picking food from two different plastic containers lowered into his tank - one decorated with a Spanish flag and one with a German flag. The container which Paul opens first is seen as his prediction.

Close up of Paul in his tank with a football in the backgroundBildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Paul has wrongly predicted Germany vs. Spain before

Paul initially went for the container marked "Spain" before moving around the tank and hovering over the German box. But he quickly headed back to the 'Spaniards' and selected the food from that box.

His selection has been met with groans of discomfort from German football fans.

Although his record has been faultless in the 2010 World Cup, Paul has been wrong before. In the European Championships in 2008, he had an 80 percent record, only getting one match wrong.

That time, he plumped for Germany to beat Spain in the final.

Author: Catherine Bolsover (AFP/dpa/Reuters)
Editor: Nancy Isenson

That octopus needs to be killed and smoked as barbecue. Where are the akwa ibom people?

why?it has pridicted all result correctly

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Although his record has been faultless in the 2010 World Cup, Paul has been wrong before. In the European Championships in 2008, he had an 80 percent record, only getting one match wrong.

That time, he plumped for Germany to beat Spain in the final.

Author: Catherine Bolsover (AFP/dpa/Reuters)
Editor: Nancy Isenson

So there you go.

I hope paul repeats his Germany vs Spain 2008 trick.

He seems to get confused whenever he has this match up. I hope he fails again.

Germany to win.

i guess the octopus was right this time!

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That octopus needs to be killed and smoked as barbecue. Where are the akwa ibom people?

seems the octopus was right afterall. ., i hope the calabar people can arrange you for their barbecue.rotflamo

octopus ko menopause ni, many people already predicted that spain was going to win. it was obvious if octopus want us to believe him, let him make a hard prediction maybe
nigeria vs spain not all these obvious rubbish.

Mehn the Octopus predictions dey gba sha!. This is the Sixth consecutively correct predictions by the octupus and they were all correct.
The removal of probability from the game will almost certainly kill it, if this happens to be very consistent then the game of football is getting close to its doom, as such predictions will take the enthusiasm which stems from wanting to know the outcome of a game. Imagine knowing the outcome of any game before it even begins, doom! Right? However, my Gambler friends here think otherwise, this is good for their own game. . .hahaha. . Heard a lot of ppl placed their bets on the Octopus predictions. . Hahaha. . Sadly, it only predicts games played by the german national team.

Octopus prediction will be what next? I hope he predicts spain to win the World cup

^^^he predicts 4 only germany

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octopus ko menopause ni, many people already predicted that spain was going to win. it was obvious if octopus want us to believe him, let him make a hard prediction maybe
nigeria vs spain not all these obvious rubbish.

Which hard matches? Can u put a bet Germany was going to loose to Serbia? D Octopus did, Can't u read?

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seems the octopus was right afterall. ., i hope the calabar people can arrange you for their barbecue.rotflamo

very funny. i said akwa ibom man and not calabar. know the difference. anyway, i think your flesh will taste nicer as suya to them