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Vanity: Alright, I'm freaking out over here. How does this work?
http://www.cyberglass.co.uk/assets/Flash/psychic.swf ^
Posted on 02/20/2003 5:25:52 PM PST by dead
This thing seems to work every time, and I'm befuddled:
The Flash Mind Reader
It's gotta be voodoo or something.
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posted on
02/20/2003 5:25:52 PM PST
by
dead
To: dead
The symbols change every time and the answer is always a multiple of 9.
To: Sir Gawain
Alright, now I get it. That's pretty darn clever though.
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posted on
02/20/2003 5:29:16 PM PST
by
dead
To: dead
I bet they simply have created a mathematical formula that works.
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posted on
02/20/2003 5:30:51 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
("We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." --Aesop)
To: dead
All the possibilites have the same symbol. Do the math with out touching the mouse then look at the symbol. All the different possiblities I've done have the same symbol.
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posted on
02/20/2003 5:31:30 PM PST
by
tonyinv
To: dead
My cousins used to pull this on me when I was a boy. I think they called it the rule of nine.
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posted on
02/20/2003 5:32:17 PM PST
by
Cicero
To: dead
definitely clever, but when they have you subtract a numer and do all that jazz, there is no doubt there is some cool math thing that is the reason for it, not true mind-reading...:)
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posted on
02/20/2003 5:32:18 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
("We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." --Aesop)
To: dead
It's a trick sequence ..... whatever number you think of minus the sum of its digits is tied to the sequencing in the list of symbols.
8
posted on
02/20/2003 5:32:21 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Take charge of your destiny, or someone else will)
To: dead
It didn't work for me. Try 12 and click. And click again. And again. It isn't always the symbol for the correct number (9).
To: dead
10
posted on
02/20/2003 5:34:08 PM PST
by
Jhoffa_
(Jhoffa_X)
To: dead
They are changing the symbol each time. There are only a certain amount of numbers that you will get if you take a two digit number and subtract the total.
So if you'll notice, 18 (which is one of the numbers that will be an answer) one time will be a circle, but the next time you try it, 18 will be a cross, and subsequently that symbol will show up in the circle
Hope that makes sense.
11
posted on
02/20/2003 5:34:12 PM PST
by
dawn53
To: Centurion2000
It was the fact that they changed the symbols everytime that was throwing me off. Pretty cool idea.
12
posted on
02/20/2003 5:34:29 PM PST
by
dead
To: John Jorsett
Oops, never mind. Now that I look more closely, I see that the symbols themselves are shifting around for each trial. Just a clever math trick.
To: dead
If you observe the various symbols they also rearrange themselves in the 1-100 sequence between various attempts.
Get a screen shot and check two different attempts to do this.
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posted on
02/20/2003 5:37:49 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Take charge of your destiny, or someone else will)
To: dead
The answer is always 0 or a multiple of 9, and they all will always have the same symbol on each round.
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posted on
02/20/2003 5:37:58 PM PST
by
StriperSniper
(Frogs are for gigging)
To: Sir Gawain; dead
Maybe, but it's a
different multiple of nine. 55 gets you to 45, 99 gets you to 81, two different symbols. How does it know which one you chose?
Too weird, dead. Has to be an explanation, but too weird. My 7yo and I did it, and it was right every time. Then we cheated: we came up with a combo, then a second one. He thought of the first, I of the second. It "picked" the second.
But how did it get it? We could have picked either symbol. Has to be an explanation, but... what is it?
Dan
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posted on
02/20/2003 5:38:01 PM PST
by
BibChr
To: dead
Thought the link on the
thread does not work, it's still fun to read, because metalbird1 is there.
To: dead
That stuff on your hands? It's too much time!
To: dead
I told you there'd be trouble sacrificing those goats to Satan, but would you listen? Noooooo....
To: dead
cool math trick, all the multiples of 9 are the same symbol. All variations of the formula are also multiples of 9. So whatever combo you come up with will be a multiple of 9 and you will get that symbol.
Great trick!
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