04-26-2004, 05:44 AM
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Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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Originally posted by scansinboy
This is what I get, when you take your first number and jumble it up, and then subtract the smaller from the bigger, all of the digits in the result add up to 18. So then, you take three of those digits, and then subtract from 18 and there's the number that you have supposedly circled. I don't know why the digits add up to 18 but they do. At least it works when the 4 digits are all different. I picked three sets of digits and it always does. So far as I can tell, it won't work if you repeat a digit and include a zero. But otherwise, it always adds up to 18, even if you do 5 or 6 digit numbers. Wierd.
It only took me about 5 minutes to figure this out, and I'm drunk!
Edit:
The numbers always add up to a multiple of 9. Either 9, 18 or 27, etc. Therefore, if the digits you enter add up to lower than 9 then it will subtract from that. if they add up to more 19 or higher then it' will subtract from 27. I'd type it out in more detail , but like I said, I'm drunk, and I hope that you all canb grasp the concept of what I'm trying to say.
Thank you for your time, that is all.
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Good job, that's exactly the pattern I was looking for. I figured it was based on multiples of 9 (most other Internet guess-games mostly work on multiples of 9) but I couldn't figure it out.
-Lasereth
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