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UUUUURGH!!!!!!!! How the heck does this thing work?!?!?!?
http://bored.com/mysticalball/index.htm
IT'S BEEN DRIVNG ME NUTS!!!
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
While it appears that there might be as many as 100 possible answers, the mathematical reality is that there are only 10.
Regardless of which number you chose, the answer will always be in the group below:
0, 9, 18, 27,36,45,54, 63, 72, 81
How does it appear to read your mind? Each time you play the game, it changes the symbols to insure that the same symbol is found at those 10 numbers. So it can never be wrong.
- 1 decade ago
It's pretty simple, if you write it out as an algebra problem. You have one two digit number. Let the two digits be X and Y. So your two digit number is
(X * 10) + Y. (For example, if your number is 36, that means X is 3 and Y is 6. (3 * 10) + 6 = 36.
Now we're going to subtract from our two digit number the sum of the two numbers. that is:
(X * 10) + Y - (X + Y)
Distribute the minus sign over the parentheses:
(X * 10) + Y - X - Y
The positive and negative Y's cancel. That leaves us with:
10X - X
which is the same as 9X.
This tells us that the result of subtracting the sum of the two numbers from the original number will ALWAYS be 9 times the first digit. If you look at the chart on that page, the multiples of 9 are all the same symbol. That's how the program can "guess" that you have that symbol. It will never be anything else.
Source(s): basic algebra. - 1 decade ago
Think of a number between 1 and 10. Multiply it by 9. Add that two digit's numbers together. Subtract 5 from that number. Now, using a system A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, think of a corresponding letter. Think of a country that starts with that letter. Now, with that country's last letter, think of a color, now with that color's last letter think of an animal.
The only problem is... There are no orange kangaroos in Denmark.
It's just a math trick. :)
- Anonymous1 decade ago
it doesn't. It is sopposed to be a trick of the minid but it doesn't even work. Peice of ---boop---.