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Community => General discussion => Topic started by: Polyphony on September 29, 2012, 03:19:14 AM

Title: Magic Gopher game!
Post by: Polyphony on September 29, 2012, 03:19:14 AM
Can anybody figure out how this works? I am very curious... it is correct every single time XD I would love to program a simple application to use the same algorithm, but I'm too dumb to figure it out lol

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/games/magic-gopher-central.swf
Title: Re: Magic Gopher game!
Post by: relax on September 29, 2012, 03:57:39 AM
sry but it dident say right awser to me
Title: Re: Magic Gopher game!
Post by: silenthunder on September 29, 2012, 04:26:50 AM
not the right answer for me either
Title: Re: Magic Gopher game!
Post by: Polyphony on September 29, 2012, 07:07:39 AM
It guesses mine every single time except when I "try" to win... I don't understand how I'm trying to win at a game like that xD
Title: Re: Magic Gopher game!
Post by: DangerousLlama on September 29, 2012, 01:35:53 PM
Didn't work for me.

But this guy always guesses right: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ (http://en.akinator.com/personnages/) xD
Title: Re: Magic Gopher game!
Post by: techb on September 29, 2012, 08:44:55 PM
Didn't work for me.

But this guy always guesses right: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ (http://en.akinator.com/personnages/) xD


Took it two tries to guess mine.
Title: Re: Magic Gopher game!
Post by: Zesh on September 29, 2012, 10:16:01 PM
Bitch, got it right the first time but the second time round, I when through it quicker and it got it wrong. Maybe its got something to do with time? :P
Title: Re: Magic Gopher game!
Post by: s3my0n on September 29, 2012, 10:51:28 PM
x and is an integer between 1 and 9 including.
y and is an integer between 0 and 9 including.

So (10x + y) is an integer between 10 and 99 including.
This is the integer that gopher asks you to chose.

The gopher then asks you to add the two parts of the double digit number together.
This is (x+y).

Then he asks you to substract your original number from this one.
That is:
(10x + y) - (x + y) = 10x - x + y - y = 9x

So now we know that this answer will always be a multiple of 9.

Now look closely at the symbol table. Every 9th symbol is the same.
And we know that our answer will always be a multiple of 9.
So the gopher just chooses the symbol that is at 0 or 9 or 18 or 27 and etc.

:)