How the hell does this work!!!

[Timmy!!!]

http://trunks.secondfoundation.org/files/psychic.swf

Can anyone work this out? It has been right every single time for me and I just cant work out how it does it!

[Timmy!!!]

Aha! I worked it out! I wont say though just to keep others guessing. Very clever stuff

[XA04]

This was posted... yesterday? if not the day before, and it's very old anyhow!

Yeah, seems like 'magic' but it's not when you think about it carefully.

[Timmy!!!]

was it? ah ok lol my bad. ignore if you have seen it already then, and yes it most probably is old but that doesnt mean everyone has seen it

[specofdust]

Ah, intriguing at first, and then just funny once you work it out

[Pennycook]

It's pretty simple, really.

If you add together the two digits and take them away from the original number, you'll always get nine times the first digit.

PROOF:
We can write a two digit number as 10a + b. We then take away the sum of a and b:

10a+b - (a+b) = 10a-a+b-b = 9a

If you look at the symbols, you'll see that every multiple of 9 has the same symbol. However, that symbol is chosen at random each time you load the flash or 'try again', so you tend not to notice it unless you're concentrating.

EDIT: And, of course, the symbol used for the multiples of 9 appears in other places as well at random, so as to throw you off. ^_^

[unreal]

I have a phobia of flashed based things with loading bars now, ever since the dominance of that screaming bloody woman that flashes at you :'(

[monkeyville]

I have a phobia of flashed based things with loading bars now, ever since the dominance of that screaming bloody woman that flashes at you :'(

Where is she..........ahhhh...........[hides in a corner].

Not funny when its done to you but funnier everytime you do it to someone else. Shame anybody with a PC has seen a varient now though

[smtkr]

it's very old anyhow!

Yeah, I would say I saw this about two years ago (albeit a different web site). It had a bunch of my flatmates in a tiff.

[XA04]

I sent some screaming woman thing to a female friend on msn, she was sat with her 2 year old daughter on her lap, I didnt realise, apparently the poor little thing freaked out

lol, yeah, I've tricked so many people into those things, work's everytime... mwuhahaha.

"Oh yeah, btw turn the speakers up because they talk really quietly, it's stupid".........

"!!"

[ajbrun]

Took me a few tried to figure it out. Could probably fool stupid people for ages .

[Anders]

The correct symbol is always displayed next to zero.

[autopilot]

Very clever! Amazed me until i noticed the symbols on the right were changing.

[Timmy!!!]

Very clever! Amazed me until i noticed the symbols on the right were changing.

Yeah me too!