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I have baffled students with this mindreading webpage. And then they have been so delighted with themselves when they finally figured it out.
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Trondheim-- someone posted something similar a while ago. It's a good one.
The only problem with this website is that the character distribution on the graphic gives the answer away. It's too patterned. What I would have suggested is to break the trick up into several pages-- the initial question, the numbers/symbol page (with random, throwaway numbers being generated along with the true trick answers, as well as changing the symbols per sessiong), and then the 'mind reading' page.
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Ok, Xav, that's what I did the first few times too... I don't know why it didn't work. Maybe I was looking at the wrong side of the number or something.
But WHY does it work??? Posts: 7877 | Registered: Feb 2003
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Raia, write down your NUMERICAL answer every time you do it. Should only take a few tries to figure it out doing that.
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It's also possible that the responses were sent in by people who 'got it' but thought it'd be funnier to email him a more creative solution, so while he didn't write them, the people who did didn't believe it either. It could be fun to write up a false explanation for it. Of course he would only choose to post those that had such off-the-wall explanations, and not any that really explained the trick. ( or if he did he hid them somewhere in the middle of that very long list, and no one ever reads the whole thing anyway, just the top and bottom.)
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That one was really obvious. Once I figured out how to get it to actually read my mind, it was easy to figure out the trick. (yeah, I did the whole look to the left of the number instead of the right).
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quote: Hi, How nice of you to write to me about the ESP test! Yes, you were very perceptive. Here's a letter I send to people who discover the trick or ask me questions about the test. Browse to this: http://tinyurl.com/282r
You'll learn at the site that this is part of an experiment and that all the "responses" on the page are real.
Um . . . *cough* , I know precisely what "the penny dropped" (and "goes") means. I was just teasing -- neither is common American English. (We would say, "the other shoe dropped" and "two tries.")
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The other shoe dropped? What was the first shoe doing? Careless shoe-dropping will be the end of us all, mark my words...
Rivka, I just figured better safe than sorry. There's been other terms I've used and recieved (virtual) blank looks in return. Now I just explain everything. Posts: 4393 | Registered: Aug 2003
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, I know precisely what "the penny dropped" (and "goes") means. I was just teasing -- neither is common American English. (We would say, "the other shoe dropped" and "two tries.")
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