Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The Flash Mind Reader - I Can Read Your Mind!


Very interesting and fascinating, isn't it? During one of my classes, my lecturer showed us this little flash game and asked us to figure out how the logic works. We were quite bored with the lecture so he decided to give us something challenging to refresh our minds.

Basically you have to choose a number from the schedule. For example, I choose 23. Then sum up the two digits of the number. Thus, 2+3=5. Next, subtract the original number with the sum of the two digits, that is 23-5=18 in this case. You click on the shining crystal ball and it will give you the symbol of the final answer, 18 in this case. You may try the game with any number in the schedule.

Eventually a new student managed to give the correct answer. In fact, the answer is simple and you can easily notice it after playing for few rounds.

Have you understood how it actually works? Give me your answer in the comment section!

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Posted by Su Sheng Loong at Tuesday, June 02, 2009
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6 comments:

  1. hehe, this is an old game.. i dun reli kno how it works.. but obviously it is just a statistical calculation.. if u noticed, everytime after u click the ball, n then u wana re-try it.. each number will be assigned a new symbol... so i guess, the game has been programmed in a way that for a particular time, wateva u choose, it will onli giv u a symbol... so, it's as though it can read ur mind.. but if u noticed, not all numbers work.. hahaha... my 1st try, it didnt work at all.. so, i guess there is a flaw to the programming.. hehe..
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  2. Indeed, Teddy got the point.

    Please pay attention on the symbol of number "9".

    No matter what 2-digit numbers you choose, number "9" will always have the answer to your results.

    So basically, you don't even have to choose any 2-digit numbers or whatsoever, not at all. Because the answer will forever be the same which you can get it from number "9".

    Unfortunately, I wouldn't know the inside technical stuff that creator set in. I have no idea what formula that creator used to build this thing.
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  3. 1 more thing, if you wanna follow the exact instruction by the creator. You "must" only choose 2-digit number as the single digit number won't work at all.

    Once you know the trick and spot it out, the answer is always there even though you don't wanna choose any numbers, LOL.
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  4. I forgot something, in fact the answers won't be only limited to number "9" but they will end up on these few numbers *only*. They are, 96, 81, 72, 63, 54, 45, 43, 36, 27, 21, 18 and then 9.

    So all the ending results of the 2-digit number you choose will have the exact identical symbol/answer. And the answer can only be derived from this group of numbers.

    Sheng Loong, what Mathematics is this? You know, I'm a complete idiot in this Mathematics thingy. o_O
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  5. TIME TO REVEAL SECRET BEHIND THE GAME!

    You guys realized that the answer must be something related to 9. In Mathematics, when u sum up the two digits of a number and subtract the original number with it, you will get a answer which is a multiple of 9. So the programmer/designer simply set the logic in which all the multiple of 9 will be the same symbol and changing every round.
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  6. oh, u kno the answer liao wan ah ShengLoong, just testing ur readers! hahaha
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