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Psychic Flash Thingy
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:41 am
by Chris Corbyn
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
/still wondering

Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:49 am
by Jenk
Every number is always divisible by 9.. every icon next to the numbers divisible by 9 are the same.
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:53 am
by Chris Corbyn
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

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:00 am
by Christopher
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.