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[FreezingDrizzle]

http://www.regiftabl...RobinPopUp.html

How does she do this?

Play the game with the sound on. I'll give the solution in a few days with a spoiler warning. FD

[NittanyLion]

Ha that was pretty clever but I figured it out. Took me a few times to see it.

[rgwp96]

it really isnt to hard to figure it out

[NittanyLion]

rgwp96, on Mar 4 2009, 01:03 PM, said:

it really isnt to hard to figure it out

It's like any of the number ones.

[FreezingDrizzle]

Solution -

The trick works by seeming to "know" the gift your calculation assigns. However, the number you calculate (with its corresponding gift) will always be from the limited set of numbers which are calculatable by what they tell you to do. That limited set of numbers always has the same gift assignment, see e.g., 45, 9, 27, and 18 (the example number); which, of course, the program "knows."

There are a few magician's misdirections.

The first part, choosing the number, is the first misdirection and has no effect whatsoever on being able to "know" your gift. The math simply limits the set of numbers to those calculatable by the computation they tell you to do (to enable the next two deceptions).

A second misdirection is that most of the numbers/gifts shown are dummies to make the amount of possible selections appear to be greater and to hide that limited set of numbers and like gifts. The other numbers are not calculatable from the math process they tell you to do.

A third deception is that it shuffles the gift-number assignment on each play, so if you play it multiple times, it appears to be able to "know" any one of the gifts that the calculation has assigned.

Of course, thinking of the gift has absolutely no effect, but contributes to the ruse.