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Edited by Nazgûl, 06 October 2009 - 12:02 PM.

[Hel Gast]

Any two digit number can be written as ab, such that the two digit number is a * 10 + b. For an example, pick 98: 9 * 10 + 8. So the outcome of the calculation will be:
((a * 10 + b) - a) - b) = a * 9, for the example it will be 98 - 9 - 8 = 81 = 9 * 9.

Now look at any of these boxxes: 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90, 99

Edited by Hel Gast, 09 August 2009 - 10:35 AM.

[Fobbi]

that's really tricky ^^ when i made that first i got a little bit scared

[ttandchotmail]

Any two digit number can be written as ab, such that the two digit number is a * 10 + b. For an example, pick 98: 9 * 10 + 8. So the outcome of the calculation will be:
((a * 10 + b) - a) - b) = a * 9, for the example it will be 98 - 9 - 8 = 81 = 9 * 9.

Now look at any of these boxxes: 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90, 99

G'day Hel Gast

Sorry mate I'm not sure how this would apply to the quiz. I did it a few times with different numbers and it got it right every time. The boxes on the quizz are numbered 1 - 99 so I can't really tell how it does this.


How does this equation produce the number you have picked from 99 different choices?

[Hel Gast]

Well, there are 99 different choices you can make, but after the calculation you are forced to do there are only a few left (9, 18, 27, ...). All these boxes have the same item in it, so you would read any item in your box, and the program would just print the thing it had written to the multiples of nine boxes. Just take a look at the boxes 9, 18, 27, ... to see it for yourself. That's what I was trying to say with the line: Now look at any of these boxes: 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90, 99.

How does this equation produce the number you have picked from 99 different choices?

So to answer that question: the equation tells the system nothing about what choice you've made. But it does doe one other thing: it reduces 99 different choices to a handful (9, 18, 27, ...). After that it shows these choices littered in boxes filled with garbage to distract you, that combined with some alignment so that box 9 isn't next to box 18, isn't next to box 27. You would have seen the pattern way to soon if that was the case.

So the trick is: give someone 99 choices, reduce these choices to a few choices by some method (the equation for example), and then distract and confuse so that you don't see the pattern of the method to soon. And what do we have: Magic.

[ttandchotmail]

Holy crap that's fantastic Thanks Hel Gast that's awesome