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Postby Stone Fox » Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:47 pm

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Postby flyingvee » Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:22 pm

Arrgghh!!! that really spooked me - nice one! :evil:
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Postby Kabazz » Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:40 pm

WTF, how does it do it?
EDIT: ooohh i get it
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Postby Luke » Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:02 pm

show this to a stoner when they're blazed :D
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Postby Stone Fox » Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:32 pm

I was a little bit tired and a little bit drunk when I saw it, and spent ages trying to trick it by checking the right number then staring at the one to the right, or glancing at the number then closing my eyes till it told me the symbol...!

lol :D
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Postby Hang11 » Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:45 pm

Luke wrote:show this to a stoner when they're blazed :D


Yup.....still struggling......off to mow the lawn now and ponder it.
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Postby SDCali » Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:43 am

No matter what number you pick, you will always get a multiple of nine, so whatever symbol shows up is associated with the multiples of nine. It's one of those mysterious math tricks, I'm kind of suprised they didn't take it one step further so that your answer would always be nine, no matter what the original number was.
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Postby .Jen. » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:12 am

forget about that... check out the Forged Email Sender

http://www.milaadesign.com/emails.html

I've just send a couple of arsey complaints to my work from big account customers :twisted:

Gonna LOVE the reactions in the office tomorrow!!
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Postby long_man » Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:13 am

lovin your work Jen :thumbs:

how the hell did you find it though :?: :?:
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Postby Kabazz » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:13 pm

SDCali wrote:No matter what number you pick, you will always get a multiple of nine, so whatever symbol shows up is associated with the multiples of nine. It's one of those mysterious math tricks, I'm kind of suprised they didn't take it one step further so that your answer would always be nine, no matter what the original number was.

No, it just chooses the one that you put your mouse over lol
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Postby Johnny B » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:06 pm

SDCali wrote:No matter what number you pick, you will always get a multiple of nine, so whatever symbol shows up is associated with the multiples of nine. It's one of those mysterious math tricks, I'm kind of suprised they didn't take it one step further so that your answer would always be nine, no matter what the original number was.


Aye, spot on. I don't think that's the clever bit though. What's clever is the fact that the grid changes - to most, at least at first, inperceivably - so that it makes the participant think that they're in control of the outcome. i.e. the participant thinks that the number they choose determines what symbol will correspond. I like it.

Oh....by the way, inperceivably; apparently that's not a word (nor is unperceivably, unperceptably or inperceptably). How then would you say what I feel inperceivably describes quite aptly??
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Postby RJD » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:19 pm

If the same symbol came up time after time you'd easily sus it.

That it changes does make it look like its guessing.
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Postby thaya » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:05 am

Johnny B wrote:
SDCali wrote:No matter what number you pick, you will always get a multiple of nine, so whatever symbol shows up is associated with the multiples of nine. It's one of those mysterious math tricks, I'm kind of suprised they didn't take it one step further so that your answer would always be nine, no matter what the original number was.


Aye, spot on. I don't think that's the clever bit though. What's clever is the fact that the grid changes - to most, at least at first, inperceivably - so that it makes the participant think that they're in control of the outcome. i.e. the participant thinks that the number they choose determines what symbol will correspond. I like it.

Oh....by the way, inperceivably; apparently that's not a word (nor is unperceivably, unperceptably or inperceptably). How then would you say what I feel inperceivably describes quite aptly??


I had a go and was freaked out! I still don't get how it guess your symbol correctly. I did it 4 times using 11, 55, 84 and 25 and the corresponding symbols for each number were all different - yet it figured them all out correctly without my mouse going anywhere near the symbol.

Explain?????????????????????? :oops:
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Postby RJD » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:12 am

thaya wrote:Explain?????????????????????? :oops:


Whatever 2 digit number you pick and then subtract from ends up being a value on the 9 times table.

So the only end results are 9, 18, 27,36,45,54,63,72,81, 91

If you look closely ALL of those values have the same symbol at the end.

It switches that symol around every time to make it look like its a new one each time.
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Postby Hang11 » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:13 am

11 - (1+1)=9

55 - (5+5) = 45

84 - (8+4) = 72

25 - (2+5) = 18

9, 45, 72 and 18 are all divisible by 9

Whatever number you pick, by taking off the last bit, the answer will always be divisible by 9.

If you look at the game, all the numbers divisble by 9 have the same symbol, but the symbol for those numbers changes each time you play, but whatever it is, it will br the same for all the numbers divisible by 9
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Postby thaya » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:42 am

:oops: duh! thanks guys :thumbs:

I figured out the multiple of 9 thing, but i couldn't understand how it knew which one it was for each symbol, but now you've explained I can see that the symbols on the chart sneakily change each time, even though at a glance the chart makes it look like they are different but static, if you know what i mean!!!

I was too tired to figure it out! (that's my excuse anyway :wink: )
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Postby pkbum » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:55 am

There is a trick that say "look at it for 10 second" which makes you disregards the other symbol.
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Postby CheeZee » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:31 pm

Luke wrote:show this to a stoner when they're blazed :D
..lmfao bro ... show this link to a true stoner ..and he wont even bother clicking it because it sounds like too much thunking to me :wink: :lol: ...


i clicked the kettle on instead of following the link :wink: :lol:
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Postby Johnny B » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:10 pm

.Jen. wrote:forget about that... check out the Forged Email Sender

http://www.milaadesign.com/emails.html

I've just send a couple of arsey complaints to my work from big account customers :twisted:

Gonna LOVE the reactions in the office tomorrow!!


That thing is BRILLIANT!!!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

A little flare for writing and a bit of thought and you can cause some serious mischief with this!!



Pretty scary too though, this could also be used for very evil deeds! It just shows how easy it is for even joe average (sorry Mr Joe) to commit fraud and the likes!
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Postby Stone Fox » Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:32 am

The same people also have a public email spoofer which lets you send emails with the "to" field at you discretion.

Authentic looking, and with a spoofed IP.
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