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  • RednBlack
    Wood Hippie
    • Mar 2004
    • 2795

    #1

    Numbers Game

    I like puzzles, but for the life of me, I can't figure this one out. I'm not a Math wizard. http://www.mysticalball.com/ Probably some simple thing I missed.
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  • joey b
    • Feb 2004
    • 75

    #2
    they change the resulting symbol every time.

    18-->9, 18-9=9, but if you add one to 18, you are going to subtract one more.

    Now do simpler math

    18+1--->19

    19+(-1)[because you are subtracting one more this time around]=18.

    how about 17, one less for a sum of the 1&7 than the 1&8, yet one less you have to subtract.
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    • RednBlack
      Wood Hippie
      • Mar 2004
      • 2795

      #3
      What if I pick 4? 4+0=4. I subtract 4, I get 0. How does the puzzle know I pick 4?, or 99..18...99-18=81? Cunfuzed!

      I'm slow. I do know, it has nothing to do with numbers.
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      • bszopi
        Site Coder
        • Apr 2000
        • 9189

        #4
        That's the reason the 0 also has the same symbol as any multiple of 9. If you look at how they are doing it, whenever you add the 2 numbers, then subtract the sum from the original number, it will always end up with a factor of 9, or be 0 (which is actually 9*0, thus still a factor)

        74 --> 7+4=11 --> 74-11=63 --> 7*9=63
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        • RednBlack
          Wood Hippie
          • Mar 2004
          • 2795

          #5
          Them 9s! Told you I was slow! :P
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          • joey b
            • Feb 2004
            • 75

            #6
            Originally posted by RednBlackCutlass
            What if I pick 4? 4+0=4. I subtract 4, I get 0. How does the puzzle know I pick 4?, or 99..18...99-18=81? Cunfuzed!

            I'm slow. I do know, it has nothing to do with numbers.
            Sorry, kinda funny. You didn't notice that if you pick 5, 6, or 7 the resulting number is still zero?
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