These things really bug me because I cannot figure out how they work (why they are so accurate!)
Please play this short game and come back here and tell me and the rest of the FTR crowd how this thing works. Maybe I’m missing something, but this thing freaks me out!
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Brandon posting as Jack because I’m logged into his blog:
It’s the color on the first screen and the house choice. Each number on the front page has a corresponding color. You tell it the color. Then, when you get to the house page those 5 same numbers that are same color are spread out among each house. So, whichever house you choose matches the color you choose and that is your number. Make sense?
That is correct. The other screens (choose any color and choose any crystal ball) mean nothing. No matter what door you pick first, that is where the number appears based on the color and house choice.
There are 5 of each colored numbers and they are split up between the 5 houses.
It took me a few times through it to figure it out.
If that’s the case then how on the last site are there different numbers?
How does it know which door you will choose?
Liz
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Jack is correct. For the sake of simplicity, let’s look at it as a 3×3 (9 possibilities) instead of a 5×5 (25 possibilities). It could easily be a 256 number puzzle, if you had 16 colors and 16 houses.
The choices:
Red: R1, R2, R3
Blue: B1, B2, B3
Yellow: Y1, Y2, Y3
Say we pick “B2″ as our color, so we click blue. The system now knows that it’s either B1, B2 or B3.
The groups now get split among the houses:
House 1: R1, B1, Y1
House 2: R2, B2, Y2
House 3: R3, B3, Y3
In our case, we choose house 2. Now the system knows that it’s either R2, B2 ,or Y2.
The only one that came up in both clicks — B2!
The other random clicks and doors and stuff are just for show. The bottom line:
- Your first click cuts the choices from 25 down to 5.
- The second click makes sure that the five remaining choices are in separate houses, so it’ll know for sure which number is yours.
I hope that made sense.
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I’ll just add to Brandon’s explanation that the reason you’re having trouble figuring it out is classic misdirection. Saying the numbers out loud, choosing a color from the color blocks (the ones that don’t correspond to numbers), and clicking on the crystal ball have nothing to do with identifying the number–they’re just there to distract you.
As for the door thing, that’s a bit of simple Flash Actionscript that tells the browser to load the correct number into whichever graphic you click.
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I feel so cheated!
I knew there was misdirection involved and that some of the steps meant nothing. I just didn’t pick out that 5 box / color scheme. Now it seems freakin’ obvious lol.
This was all a distraction to cover for the fact that I didn’t finish a post I wanted to make today, so I understand the value of misdirection.
lol…it is a card trick that works almost the same way… the number is decided in the first couple of questions and everything else is all smoke and mirrors.
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Thanks for giving me a little laugh this morning, Jack. I’m glad to see the earlier responses because it would have completely baffled me. The magic of mathematics at work!
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Here is the more appropriate and more precise answer to the color and number equation:
This involves programming: looping or array but I prefer looping
On the first page you were asked to pick a number and click on the color of the number you have chosen:
Pink = 21, 22, 1, 14, 6
Green = 9, 23, 25, 16, 12
Blue = 4, 18, 17, 3, 10
Black = 11,7, 8, 24, 19
Red = 13, 15, 5, 2, 20
If you choose GREEN (9, 23, 25, 16, 12), just an example
So the second page to pick a color and the page to choose a crystal ball is just to make players confuse. Not included in the equation.
Now on the house A, B, C, D and E: each house has 6 numbers and 1 number is not included on the 1st page where you will choose a number. The color of the numbers also in the houses sometimes makes the player confuse.
In programming, the system already had picked the correct number you have chosen before you choose a door to open.
Remember the example is green.
It will make a looping statement that from the house you have chosen the numbers that are there belongs to different corresponding colors.
Is this colored green? If the answer to the first loop is NO, it will ask looping question again, until it gets a YES answer then that is the correct or your chosen number with the corresponding color.
If you have picked a color it will make a looping statement then it will show the correct number you have picked and that will be the number will show up on the door you will choose. Its not confusing but it you know how looping or array statements you will get the answer easily.
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Thanks for sending this to me Jack, it refreshed my programming skills….
I really did enjoy….
Have a great day everyone!!!!