Somebody tell me how this works

[Kristie]

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so... why is it always right?

 

[IWasBored]

i don't know

 

[cell]

that is some freaky shit...

 

[IWasBored]

it was wrong!! it's not always right...it shuffleds the symbols around or something...

 

[The_Sweetest_Thing]

the symbols DO change, but how does it know what i'm thinking????

 

[kobayashi]

well for starters all the symbols are reused at some point...there aren't 99 different symbols but it is still creepyaccurate.

 

[IWasBored]

well for starters all the symbols are reused at some point...there aren't 99 different symbols but it is still creepyaccurate.

yeah, they are repeated, and there's probably some kind of math proof for why it works.

i bet my mom would know...

 

[The_Sweetest_Thing]

ALRIGHT! MELON, WHERE ARE YOU??

 

[Hallelujah Here She Comes]

Ok that's scaring me. Somebody figure this out, please.

 

[U2SavesTheWorld]

It HAS to be mathematical (obviously).

Even so, its irritating me.

 

[Angel]

ok. that's freaky.

I did it twice....... it was right twice........ that's enough for me.

 

[IWasBored]

ALRIGHT! MELON, WHERE ARE YOU??

that's what i was wondering...

 

[kobayashi]

it kinda works. clever really

spoiler...i am going to look like if someone proves me wrong

#s 10 - 19 all give you the same total: 9.
#s 20 - 29 all give you the same total: 18
#s 30- 39 all give you the same total: 27
#s 40- 49 all give you the same total: 36
#s 50- 59 all give you the same total: 45
#s 60- 69 all give you the same total: 54
#s 70- 79 all give you the same total: 63
#s 80- 89 all give you the same total: 72
#s 90- 99 all give you the same total: 81

so the only real options it must choose from are 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81. it changes the symbols beside each number every time but the symbols for these 8 numbers are always the same. so it always gives you the right answer.

another way to do it is to not bother with the math, just look at the symbol beside any one of these numbers and press the button, the symbol will come up in the crystal ball because it is the only conceivable answer.

 

[Hallelujah Here She Comes]

Damn you. I just figured that first part out. I think that's it, or part of it at least. That would also explain why it's occasionally wrong. But:

another way to do it is to not bother with the math, just look at the symbol beside any one of these numbers and press the button, the symbol will come up in the crystal ball because it is the only conceivable answer.

Umm...what?

 

[FallingStar]

it wasn't right for me



I'm such a dork

 

[kobayashi]

Damn you. I just figured that first part out. I think that's it, or part of it at least. That would also explain why it's occasionally wrong. But:



Umm...what?

look at the symbol beside one of those #s and press the button...
ie whatever the symbol for 9 is will appear

 

[IWasBored]

thank you kobyashi

reminds me of the number game where you start out with a 3 digit number, do fomr calculations and then you always get 4. you align your answer with the letter in the alphabet, meaning you get d. you're supposed to pick a country starting with that letter. 98% pick denmark. and then you pick an animal that starts with the last letter of your country. k. kangaroo. then a fruit starting with the last letter. and then the person says "you picked orange, didn't you"? and i said no, i picked apple because iguana ends in a. and djibouti (which i think i spelled wrong in the middle, but i know it starts with a d and a j and ends in an i) ends in i.

 

[Hallelujah Here She Comes]

look at the symbol beside one of those #s and press the button...
ie whatever the symbol for 9 is will appear

OOooooh. *gets it*

 

[Sicy]

ALRIGHT! MELON, WHERE ARE YOU??

That music scares me

 

[Hallelujah Here She Comes]

That music scares me

I turned it off.

 

[Kristie]

Re: it kinda works. clever really

so the only real options it must choose from are 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81. it changes the symbols beside each number every time but the symbols for these 8 numbers are always the same. so it always gives you the right answer.

but if it picks one of those at random, that's.. nine options, right?
But like, it's right far too much to be that random... I sat here and did it about 15 times and it was only wrong once, and that time I did the same number twice.
yeah, where the hell is melon?

 

[hippy]

umm... the first three times I did it it was right


but then it's been wrong for the past four times

still pretty freaky

 

[Hallelujah Here She Comes]

Re: Re: it kinda works. clever really

but if it picks one of those at random, that's.. nine options, right?
But like, it's right far too much to be that random... I sat here and did it about 15 times and it was only wrong once, and that time I did the same number twice.

All the nine options are the same any given time you do it. And then they all change when the whole thing resets.

 

[Stories for Boys]

um...if kobayashi is right...there's no way it'll be wrong...so maybe you added it up wrong...?

it's been right every time for me...

 

[Hallelujah Here She Comes]

that's what i'm thinking, laura. which would put me in solidly in the category of "can't add"

 

[~fairy_girl~]

thats bloody freaky

 

[melon]

LOL...this works because this formula ensures that you always end up with a multiple of 9--and all the multiples of 9 have the same symbol. If you notice, they change the symbols next to the numbers, so that's why you see different symbols.

Let's try a few here:

99: 9+9=18; 99-18=81 --> a multiple of 9 (9x9=81)
80: 8+0=8; 80-8=72 --> a multiple of 9 (9x8=72)
46: 4+6=10; 46-10=36 --> a multiple of 9 (9x4=36)
26: 2+6=8; 26-8=18 --> a multiple of 9 (9x2=18)

It is a pretty clever little program.

Melon

 

[IWasBored]

right...the 9 thing...i always forget about that...

 

[Kristie]

AH
well then.
I guess I was misunderstanding kobayashi

 

[hippy]

*puts fingers in ears*

MATH! I HATE MATH! lol

I'll just accept that it works sometimes