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Subject: How does this work?

Written By: fishryc on 12/17/06 at 3:06 pm

These have been around for a while, but I still can't figure out how it works???????????????????

http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-magic-monkey.htm

Subject: Re: How does this work?

Written By: La Roche on 12/17/06 at 3:36 pm


These have been around for a while, but I still can't figure out how it works???????????????????

http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-magic-monkey.htm


.. he got mine wrong.

Subject: Re: How does this work?

Written By: Dominic L. on 12/17/06 at 3:42 pm

^ You added wrong. It's made so that any number being added together and subtracted, etc. will land on the same symbol. It doesn't matter which one you pick, it will land on the same one. Try it!

Subject: Re: How does this work?

Written By: Howard on 12/17/06 at 4:08 pm

Fish,It's all about remembering which number you thought of.

Subject: Re: How does this work?

Written By: Sister Morphine on 12/17/06 at 4:26 pm


Fish,It's all about remembering which number you thought of.



Not exactly Howard.

Subject: Re: How does this work?

Written By: MLB on 12/19/06 at 10:45 pm

Dam and a beaver with a cold! that monkey got me!

Subject: Re: How does this work?

Written By: whistledog on 12/19/06 at 10:48 pm

What that monkey is actually doing is giving you secrets about what Michael Jackson did to him all those years ago :D

Subject: Re: How does this work?

Written By: karen on 12/20/06 at 5:13 am


These have been around for a while, but I still can't figure out how it works???????????????????

http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-magic-monkey.htm


Somewhere on this board buried way back is the mathematical proof of this.  Basically this answer you get is always divisible by 9 and so in the chart all the muliples of 9 have the same symbol, though the actual symbol changes each time.

Subject: Re: How does this work?

Written By: fishryc on 12/23/06 at 4:17 pm


Somewhere on this board buried way back is the mathematical proof of this.  Basically this answer you get is always divisible by 9 and so in the chart all the muliples of 9 have the same symbol, though the actual symbol changes each time.


OK, but do you know what really made my hair stand up??
I did it with a number that I chose, and my wife did it at the same time, click per click, with a different number that she had in her head.
As it turned out, we both ended up with the same symbol, and it was "guessed" correctly.
Go figure...................................

Subject: Re: How does this work?

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/06 at 4:21 pm


These have been around for a while, but I still can't figure out how it works???????????????????

http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-magic-monkey.htm
I touch this type of maths on the course I did last year, let me find my notes on it.

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