Holy weirdness... (game)

Check out this shiz...

http://www.milaadesign.com/wizardy.html

The answer's always 18, they just move the symbols.

edit: nah, that's not it but it's something like that, I remember this thing from the early days of the interwebs.

editedit: The answer is always a multiple of 9, they line the symbols up on them.

I hate that game....I have played before, and have no clue how it works.
Someone on here must know how it works.

gotcha, the symbols....f*ck

That's not weird, that's just math.

Sick and ashamed and happy (and note the symbols for all multiples of nine...),
d.

I can see it being multiples of 9, but how does it know which multiple? Kiling me...

Doing this you will always end up with a number that's a multiple of 9. All those numbers (9, 18, 27, 36 etc) have the same symbol.

The symbols change each time you play, but the fact that all multiples of nine are the same symbol for each round is constant. No matter what number you pick, you will always end up on a multiple of nine. 46 will bring you to the same place as 47 because, though 47 is one higher, you are also subtracting one more (seven versus six). I'm sure there's a more technical way to describe it...

SaAaH (and not so nerdy),
d.

Aha... got it. Freakin witch...

Any two digit number can be represented as 10x+y, where x and y are in the interval [0 9]. Take the number 34. 34=3(10)+4.

So let's take our two digit number z, and represent it as 10x+y. z=10x+y, (and if you took x and wrote it next to y, you'd have written z.)

Now, do what the game says. Add x and y together, and subtract them from the original number for a new number, a. a=10x+y - (x+y) = 9x.

So, the final number a multiple of 9.

so that's what the NSA has been up to.