This trick is doing my head in, anyone got any explanations? http://www.ebaumsworld.com/mindprobe.html

Oh dear god thats cool

*plays some more*

I will give you an explanation once ive had a play =)

I played it loads till I got bored, awesome trick though.

Ok heres another one, I'm not gonna post any more links else I'm gonna pack this thread as it's so tempting, but this one is really weird. Check it out http://www.ebaumsworld.com/magic/choosenumber.html

It didn't take me too long to figure this one out. All of the resulting numbers are divisible by 9. I wrote the proof out in a piece of paper and will post it soon. Pretty much, all results will be all numbers divisble by 9, so 9, 18,27 and so forth. Notice how the same symbol is asigned to all numbers which are divisble by 9, so you will always get the same symbol displayed. Say you chose the number 34. 34 - 3 - 4 = 27. 27 is divisble by 9, so this number and all other numbers divisble by 9 will be given the same symbol. And what you get is the correct symbol all the time. I will post the proof soon. I love math.

Attached is the proof I worked out real quick.

Thanks, makes sense now. I started to believe it was magic.

Didn't work for me. Tip don't use your mouse to find the symbol.

Edit* It worked now....

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If you view it in firefox its quite a lot harder so suss because it just loads characters and numbers, but IE loads them up as different symbols and the relationship between similar symbols becomes aparent

Although it did amuse me for a while!

It didn't work for me...

LOL, they could have at least set it up so that they didnt get an obvious diagonal for the character being used...I mean, even if you hardly glance at it, that diagonal REALLY stands out, and then the fact that your character is the same as those on the diagonal should be at least somewhat suspicious.

I remember back in 5th grade, my math and science teacher did something similar to this. I was kinda baffled back then and sort of obsessed over it for almost a week before I figured out what he was doing, lol.

Wow that test one was crazy. The first and last didnt get me because I had seen them before. The second one got me though. Hella strange.

Lol the second one was the only one that didn't get me. I thought of chocolate, even though that's not allowed.

On that one, it was only right on the hammer... the others were wrong for me!

And the planet chase ended for me on Jupiter, while he said I was on mars.... he's not always right!