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Wendy
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 Posted - 02/14/2005 : 08:46:02
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Have some fun with your friends. The Flash Mind Reader can read your mind! 
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 02/14/2005 : 10:28:38 [Permalink]
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Pretty cool Wendy. It did take me a couple minutes to figure out how it is done. I'll show it to my kids today. It should boggle their minds.... 
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2005 : 12:42:15 [Permalink]
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Thanks, furshur. It took me a little time, and ultimately it was a card trick I remembered that lead me to the solution.
My kids love math, so I'll be interested to see how quickly they realize how this works.
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/14/2005 : 13:10:32 [Permalink]
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| OK, I give. First I did it without any math. It was right a couple times and wrong a couple. Then I did it with the math - same result. It's weird when it was right but it wasn't always right. |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2005 : 13:18:43 [Permalink]
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| OK, I decided to be more scientific. I tried it a few more times with the math and it was correct 5 out of 5. It missed 3 of 3 without the math. I am totally stumped. |
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2005 : 13:20:41 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by beskeptigal
OK, I give. First I did it without any math. It was right a couple times and wrong a couple. Then I did it with the math - same result. It's weird when it was right but it wasn't always right.
It was right for me without fail. I've sent it to some friends and they say the same. I'll be the first to admit that I'm lousy at math, but math is half the key. I'm reluctant to post the solution here. I like to figure these things out for myself, and others may wish to do the same. Please feel free to PM me if you'd like though, and I will send you the solution.
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
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| Edited by - Wendy on 02/14/2005 13:22:17 |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2005 : 13:22:41 [Permalink]
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| OK, I see how it is done. But I don't want to spoil it for others. Don't post the answer, Wendy. It's more fun to be mystified. |
| Edited by - beskeptigal on 02/14/2005 13:23:45 |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 02/14/2005 : 14:17:05 [Permalink]
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| Hehe, I knew it already |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 02/14/2005 : 14:28:43 [Permalink]
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I love the good old Star Trek Transporter sound effect, when you click the crystal ball. I've seen this page before, but forgot about the sfx...
Thanks Wendy for making my night. |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2005 : 22:59:53 [Permalink]
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Showed it to my son. He had seen it and had sat around with another friend and his friend's family and figured it out. Well I'm glad he had some quality time with someone anyway.  |
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2005 : 08:41:51 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
I love the good old Star Trek Transporter sound effect, when you click the crystal ball. I've seen this page before, but forgot about the sfx...
Thanks Wendy for making my night.
My pleasure, Dr. Mabuse.  It was a hit last night at my house, too. |
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2005 : 12:34:04 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Wendy
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
OK, I give. First I did it without any math. It was right a couple times and wrong a couple. Then I did it with the math - same result. It's weird when it was right but it wasn't always right.
It was right for me without fail.
Well I figured out why it it was correct so often on the occasions I didn't do the math. And I must have been sloppy on the occasions I did the math and the 'mind reader' was wrong. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/15/2005 : 13:02:15 [Permalink]
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| This is much better than the card selecting version I saw. Same principal though. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2005 : 07:41:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
Well I figured out why it it was correct so often on the occasions I didn't do the math.
My husband played around with it without doing the math too. For him, that was the best way to figure out how it works.
I'm such a stick in the mud when it comes to following instructions, it never even occurred to me to try it without the math. 
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/17/2005 : 14:32:48 [Permalink]
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****More spoiler**** so don't scroll down unless you want the BIG SECRET revealed.
Basically, per Ricky's solution, you get a set of numbers. The SAME symbol is assigned this entire set.
Also, just to confuse you even more.... the symbol assigned to this set cycles through a group of symbols.
Proof? Look at the number 9. Click the orb. Try again (and note that the symbol for 9 will have changed). Everytime you click the orb, the symbol assigned to 9 will appear. |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
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