Friday Afternoon Puzzler

Nicole · July 2004

This is just too odd. Can any one figure out how it works? With what little brain power I have left this late in the week I have exhausted all possibilities.

Safe travels everyone and have a great weekend!

[url]www.mysticalball.com[/url]

System · July 2004

Yes, I figured it out.

Pricehcs · July 2004

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 07-30-04 AT 03:02PM (CST)[/font][br][br]The site instructs you to select any two-digit number, then subtract from that number the sum of the two digits involved in that number.

whatever the starting number is doesn't matter because it's going to be the remainder from dividing by 10 and subtracted out of our problem. So, what we're always going to have is a multiple of 10 with 1/10th of it taken away. That leaves 9/10 of a multiple of 10, which is what you'd get by dividing that multiple of 10 by 10, and then multiplying it by 9. In other words, no matter what number you pick, you're headed towards a multiple of nine.

So, the site paints the board with the same symbol in 0, 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, and 81, and in the magic ball once you reveal it. They put that matching symbol in a few other meaningless places so that the multiples of 9 pattern isn't too easy to spot. They don't know which of the ten spots with the "magic" symbol you're going to be stopping on, but they're sure as long as you do your math right you're going to end up in one of those ten spots.

#1 thing a consultant shouldn't say: "I could tell you the answer right now, but we're committed to a three month project..." #-o

Leslie · July 2004

Huh? Okay Sam, can you put that in layman's terms?

System · July 2004

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 07-30-04 AT 07:25PM (CST)[/font][br][br]No matter what two-digit number you pick, the answer will always be a multiple of 9. It could be 0, 9, 18, 27, etc. The first time you read the ball, the symbol will be the six-leafed flower symbol which matches the symbol next to your answer. When you try it again, look at the symbols alongside the numbers. They will change and all of the numbers in multiples of 9 will change to the same symbol, which of course will appear in the crystal ball. The other numbers scramble so that a viewer doesn't catch on.

rad · July 2004

Oh thank god! I was a little freaked out!

Don D · July 2004

This certainly proves you're not a true blonde!-

ScorpioHR · July 2004

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 08-01-04 AT 07:12PM (CST)[/font][br][br]Got it, was neat..Thanks for sharing :-)

jrzgrl · August 2004

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 08-19-04 AT 02:50PM (CST)[/font][br][br]Okay...how does *this* one work...baffles me!

[url]http://65.54.186.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=f1139d8531d4b2329374e4a4b8977634&lat=1092931304&hm___action=http://digicc.com/fido/[/url]

Hopefully this link works...

Edited to add a better link:

[url]http://www.digicc.com/fido/[/url]

Leslie · August 2004

It doesn't, at least not for me.

Pricehcs · August 2004

[url]http://www.austintech.com/archives/000010.html[/url]

#1 thing a consultant shouldn't say: "I could tell you the answer right now, but we're committed to a three month project..." #-o

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