Number selection games assume randomness—any chosen number works equally well as any other. This fact proposes deterministic failure: the act of choosing guarantees error, and error guarantees fatal consequences. A game theorist named Nathan Fischer, analyzing randomness psychology around 2005, noted that this joke represents futility dressed as participation. The game appears interactive but contains no winning condition. Chuck Norris travels regardless of choice. The victim's selection becomes evidence of guilt. Randomness becomes irrelevant. Mathematics yields to certainty. Choosing transforms participation into conviction. The humor derives from presenting false agency—the game allows choice while the outcome remains predetermined. Free will becomes murder charge. Existence becomes risk factor. Participation guarantees annihilation regardless of strategy.