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  • #1

    Here is something perplexing!

    Can anyone figure out how this thing works??? I'm at a loss!

    http://www.cyberglass.co.uk/FlashEx/mindreader.html
    Awake is the new sleep!

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  • #2
    caution: spoilers ahead

    it's pretty cool huh?
    the answer is that the symbol set changes each time. There's a finite number of solutions to the problem, so they just make all those the same symbol, but different each time, so it seems like the machine "knows"

    for those math geeks among you, a two digit number is 10x + y, where x is the first digit and y the second. so subtracting the sum of the two digits yields 10x+y-x-y, which is 9x, where x is between 1 and 9. So all you have to do is make every multiple of 9 between 9 and 81 the same symbol. If you check, I think 9, 18, 27, ......, 81 are all the same.

    Sorry to ruin the mystery
    Enabler of DW and 5 kids
    Let's go Mets!

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    • #3
      It didn't work for me! I followed the directions exactly and I didn't get the right symbol!
      Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
      With fingernails that shine like justice
      And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

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      • #4
        OK, I did it again and this time it worked - freaky!
        Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
        With fingernails that shine like justice
        And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

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        • #5
          Wow fluffhead--you sure are smart!!!
          Thanks for solving the mystery. I would have thought about that for days!
          Awake is the new sleep!

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          • #6
            awww shucks ma'am
            tweren't nuthin.
            Enabler of DW and 5 kids
            Let's go Mets!

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            • #7
              ? If you pick 96, the total of the two numbers is 15, it never comes up with that symbol?! I hvae clicked on if over and over for about 5 minutes, just to see if it would get that symbol!!

              I guess it just goes to show that my mind is a huge mess and needs to be cleaned in order to be read!

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              • #8
                Are you subtracting 15 from 96 and therefore looking at the symbol for 81? I.e. did you skip the last step?
                Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
                Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.

                “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
                ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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                • #9
                  Ok, maybe my mind can be read...it is just very sleepy!

                  Thanks for making me look at it again! Just didn't comprehend the instructions.

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