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Location: closely held secret | The Ball
The Amazing Mind Reader |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | 
(that MindReader is freaky) |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | (that MindReader is freaky) "But, How do it know?" |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Wow. A couple of "my kids" were here, and I had each of them pick a number. If I picked a number while they did too, mine came up. If I didn't, theirs came up, even though I was controlling the mouse. They say that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Until it is understood.) THIS is magic to me! |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | I am sooo frustrated by the Mind Reader :confused: |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Notice on the "MindReader" all numbers that are a multiple of 9 share the same symbol.
If you do the math as they ask, your answer will always be a multiple of 9. |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | Of course!! Thanks Jeff - that rings a bell. You can do a lot of interesting things in maths with 9 :) |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Multiply 9 (or a multiple of 9) by any other number, then add the numbers of the answer together and you will get 9.
eg. 99 x 6 = 594
5 + 9 + 4 = 18
1 + 8 = 9
999 x 20 = 19980
1 + 9 + 9 + 8 + 0 = 27
2 + 7 = 9
9 x 4321 = 3889
3 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 9 = 36
3 + 6 = 9 |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | Excellent Muzz - do you want to help me with these budgets I am trying to quote on :D |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Thank you! Now I'll be able to sleep tonight! |
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Location: closely held secret | Robert Silverberg referred to 9 as a 'gosh' number... |
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Location: East Tennessee | Who's Robert Silverberg?
Does he play an Ovation?
:D :D :D :D |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by muzza:
Multiply 9 (or a multiple of 9) by any other number, then add the numbers of the answer together and you will get 9.
eg. 99 x 6 = 594
5 + 9 + 4 = 18
1 + 8 = 9
999 x 20 = 19980
1 + 9 + 9 + 8 + 0 = 27
2 + 7 = 9
9 x 4321 = 3889
3 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 9 = 36
3 + 6 = 9 My birthday is 9/9/1962.
1 + 9 + 6 + 2 = 18 , 1 + 8 = 9
so it's 9/9/9
I have many good things in my life that have to do with multiples of 9.
Not that I put much stock in that :rolleyes: but it's fun. |
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| That bloody ball is maddening! :mad: |
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Location: big island | try the leap frogs |
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| It was a very short drive for most. Some of us walked. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | You are all Sadists!! :D |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Leap frogs is cool. The #&@! ball doesn't change even when I do click on it. |
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Location: closely held secret | Sure it does. When you click on it. :D |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | "Pull" the ball straight up. Get your cursor under it. Click on the ball as it comes down past your cursor. Color doesn't change (the swine). |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I came to the same conclusion as Muzz, then tested it successfully numerous times. Fun in any event. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by wilblee:
"Pull" the ball straight up. Get your cursor under it. Click on the ball as it comes down past your cursor. Color doesn't change (the swine). Sure it does. Try to pull just hard enough so that the ball reaches the top right where your cursor is.
Not easy, just maddening. |
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Location: big island | i find it works best by giving a gentle pull on the string and dropping the cursor quickly to meet the ball halfway and clicking. i am using a trackball type mouse which is probably most conducive for this method. |
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Location: closely held secret | Good point, Randy, trackball here, too.
I forget most people are still using meeces.
I hear it's easier with a touch pad, but haven't bothered to try it on the laptop yet. |
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Location: Jet City | the ball was easy. the frogs are hurting my brain |
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Damon - I'll trade you the solution for your VXT. Let me know when you're ready...  |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I use this one with real people... |
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Location: closely held secret | Do they have to go in the water if they mess up? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Funny you should ask...
Years ago, I did make one with cut tree stumps placed in a swamp.
These days.... tiles, carpet squares, cinder blocks... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | It can't read my mind! I must have made a math mistake, as usual. And I defeated the ball. I feel like a genius! |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Damon - I'll trade you the solution for your VXT. Let me know when you're ready... |
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way OT - drive yourself nuts