Mind Reading

maraxis · Post by **maraxis** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:46 pm 0

Try this out

http://www.flashpsychic.com/

hairy_pete · Post by **hairy_pete** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 6:11 pm 0

Duh.

Spoiler wrote:

Your number is has the digits n and m. The numerical value then is (10n)+m. The sum of its digits is (n+m).

The computation you're supposed to do is:

(10n)+m - (n+m)

which turns out to be 9n.

Now, in that table on the right, all multiples of nine (all possible 9n) have the same symbol.

There isn't much psychicness required.

It's amazing before you figure it out though

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 6:13 pm 0

Bloody hell, spooky or wot?

This actually works!!! Tried it out 3 times and 3 times I got the symbol I wuz looking at.

How the hell did they do this?

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 6:45 pm 0

Look at Hairy Pete's explanation... it's how I figured it out way before doing it too

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 8:27 pm 0

Yep, all clever maths.

t0ne · Post by **t0ne** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 8:43 pm 0

Class, I love silly things like that

... and my maths is soooo shite it would've taken me ages to work out

maraxis · Post by **maraxis** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 10:09 pm 0

It's actually two tricks rolled into one.

The multiple of nine thing, but the sneaky one is that the symbols change sequence each time you repeat the 'reading'.

I nice little flash anim.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 10:23 pm 0

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 10:53 pm 0

Good use of the Star Trek transporter noise, too.

Saint Sandy · Post by **Saint Sandy** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 4:47 am 0

...and I am reading your mind....

...waits....

euuurrrrghhhhhhhhhh run away!!!

the horror!...the horror!!!

ciacio · Post by **ciacio** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 4:42 pm 0

For the first 30 seconds, before having figured out, it was so scary!

Nice.

ciacio

Viscount Charles · Post by **Viscount Charles** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 9:54 pm 0

Computers cannot read minds. With that basic fact in mind, I had it figured out almost at once, and *spotted* what it was up to in time to make my own correct "prediction".

For the clever stuff, watch Channel 4 NOW.