Psychic Flash Thingy

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Chris Corbyn
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Psychic Flash Thingy

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http://trunks.secondfoundation.org/files/psychic.swf

If anybody can tell me how this actually knows my answer every time so that I know I'm not going insane I'd appreciate it :P

/still wondering :?
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Every number is always divisible by 9.. every icon next to the numbers divisible by 9 are the same.
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Jenk wrote:Every number is always divisible by 9.. every icon next to the numbers divisible by 9 are the same.
Dammit... that's so much less interesting than I'd hoped :cry:
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As with most good magic tricks there are a couple things going on that combined that make it work. The basic math of the thing is the foundation, but then they use unusual, unmemorable symbols and rearrange them every time that the page is displayed. That way you can do it several times and get a different symbol -- even though the answers are in the same positions.
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