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AR15.COM
2/21/2003 1:21:15 PM EDT
Ok... Here's the deal:

I consider myself to be fairly intelligent.
I have an IQ of 171 and am a former member of MENSA. (left when I failed to encounter any conservatives in my local group)

My wife is a molecular geneticist who possesses several graduate degrees.


NEITHER of us could figure out why this damn thing works each and every time !

HELP!  I am about to pull out all of my hair. (including my back hair!) [:D]

[url]http://download.consumptionjunction.com/multimedia/cj_17068.swf[/url]
2/21/2003 1:22:56 PM EDT
[#1]
I can't access it because of the net nanny at work. If this is that idiot card thing, all of the cards change, not just the one you are looking at.
2/21/2003 1:32:28 PM EDT
[#2]
It's not the card thing... (I figured that one out fairly quickly..)

Give it a shot when 'ya get home !   Pretty please.  [:)]
2/21/2003 1:32:52 PM EDT
[#3]
Spoilers Below!
Look at it carefully - the symbols are repeated many times, but the same few numbers always have the same sign:
45, 36, 27, etc.
You might notice they're multiples of 9.

So take a two-digit number: N = 10T + U
T the tens digit
U the ones digit

Then N - T - U = 10T + U - T - U = 9T
So the number you get has to be a multiple of 9.

So they just took all multiples of 9, pick a random symbol to assign to them, and displayed it when you clicked.

It's an old card/numerology trick, updated with the help of flash.

The kick is that the symbols change everytime so you don't catch on.
2/21/2003 1:34:34 PM EDT
[#4]
You sir ---> are a GOD !     Thanks !!!! [:)]
2/21/2003 1:35:39 PM EDT
[#5]
It appears to be a simple math trick. I did notice that the symbols change every time you refresh (ie. 9=bell refresh 9=star)so thats why it appears to always guess correctly no matter what you choose.
2/21/2003 1:40:32 PM EDT
[#6]
I tried it one time and it gave me the wrong answer.

THISISME
2/21/2003 1:41:08 PM EDT
[#7]
Its not reading my mind at all.
I thought of only 69 and it never came up!
2/21/2003 1:45:32 PM EDT
[#8]
ok, took me a while, but here it is.

All 2 digit numbers,, minus the sums of those 2 digits equal only 1 of a few numbers.

The syymbols change after every time, thats why they disappear.  Look at the symbol for 0, 9, 18, 27,36,45,54,63,72 etc, see a pattern?

its always that symbol that comes up

there ya go, now take random 2 dig numbers, and it will come up with one of these.

TADA

TXLEWIS
2/21/2003 1:47:01 PM EDT
[#9]
damn, took me too long to type

txlewis