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- compacho, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21A chia pet contains more magic than that.
- Paperthin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18It just sifts through all possible word combinations, finds which ones where actually possible from what you selected, and then just chooses that word and card b/c it's the only one that makes sense. They can make sure of this b/c the letters are arranged so that you cannot have two cards accidently spell two different words. If you put giberish then you won't get what you looked for.
At first glance i couldn't even figure out why this was magic...i thought is was quite simple, but well done :) - Rummey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20I must be an idiot, but I don't get it.
If I chose PORT, and Ace of Hearts, I just put the Ace under the P, hit red, move Ace to O, hit red, move Ace to R, hit red, move Ace to T, hit red then it spells "PORT".
What am I missing? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I just got it! It doesn't know what your card is.
One of my biggest "OOOOH..." moments. - Fungo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I like it. Whoever made this was smart enough to arrange the letters on the wheel on such a way that it narrows down the most likely combinations for every selection, and also has the letters in such an order that it's either impossible or near impossible to spell out two words on one turn.
- The1337Dude, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12How is this magic? You TELL it your card and your 4-letter word…
- IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well damn, it actually worked. Impressive.
- diggsIt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4She's a Witch!
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I tried GUTS and it didn't work.
- krazytom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I can make it say dirty words! .... and that's about the end of the amazement.
- Ben174, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You have to actually have half a brain to realize why this is indeed very cool.
- sunchild, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4YOYO doesn't work--it chose GAGA instead.
- xyqxyq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Comment abuse, but I think it's worth it.
*******You're not supposed to click on your card to turn the wheel. You can click anywhere. It won't impress you if you use your card to guide the wheel.********* - revmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3just tried that. it said i spelled peep.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It worked for me the first time, but the second time I tried it I used the Ace of Hearts and spelled BOOB. It didn't work.
- bmwboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, not 100% accurate by any means.
- gfixler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Quite, and I'm extra impressed that he's also the guy behind ColorPickr - http://krazydad.com/colrpickr/ -, and the Whitney Music Box - http://www.coverpop.com/whitney/ -, the latter of which got over 5600 diggs:
http://www.digg.com/design/The_Most_Hypnotizing_Website_Ever
Even if you don't like the card trick, it's hard not to admit that he has a lot of cool things going on over there. - Dracura, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's quite remarkable.
- joelmole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38 of Spades?!
- SuperPuppet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2An example:
public class test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String alphabet = "abikqylnugxrvjhwtdcsemozfp";
int[] index = index(alphabet);
String word = "duck";
for(int i = 0; i < alphabet.length(); i++){
System.out.println(shift(word, index, alphabet, i));
}
}
public static String shift(String word, int index[], String alphabet, int shift){
int length = word.length();
int alength = alphabet.length();
char[] nword = new char[length];
for(int i = 0; i < length; i++){
int nindex = (index[word.charAt(i) - 'a'] + shift) % alength;
nword[i] = alphabet.charAt((index[word.charAt(i) - 'a'] + shift) % alength);
}
return new String(nword);
}
public static int[] index(String s){
int index[] = new int[26];
for(int i = 0; i < 26; i++){
index[s.charAt(i) - 'a'] = i;
}
return index;
}
}
The possibilities:
duck
cgsq
sxey
erml
mvon
ojzu
zhfg
fwpx
ptar
adbv
bcij
iskh
keqw
qmyt
yold
lznc
nfus
upge
gaxm
xbro
rivz
vkjf
jqhp
hywa
wltb
tndi - wetdirtmud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's the word list.
http://sseann.googlepages.com/words.txt
It won't find anything besides these. - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How did you tell it what card you wanted or what word you wanted? There's 26 cards on the screen, did you actually tell it that you chose the Ace of Hearts at any point?
- chmod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Well, it's obvious that it's not magic, but did you consider that you never actually *told* it which word or card? You spun all of the cards simultaneously, and there are quite a few different words you could choose. So the computer has to track every card and try to discern which card *you* were tracking."
I hate to break it to you, but 24 four letter words is an insanely small number for a computer to keep track of. Or was that a really, really poor attempt at humor? - pbfreak453, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5you don't tell it your card...
- redheadguy719, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it only works for common words i'm pretty sure, i tried my name, and got something completely wrong (word and card) but, for the most part its pretty interesting, so stop being so damn pessimistic, "thats not magic!" of course its not ***** magic.
- katanna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2lol, so did I! It was just the first one I looked at...
Matthew - redheadguy719, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i think it might actually use "subtle hints from movements of the mouse" because if u try just moving it randomly, it will reset and won't give an answer
- pmhesse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where the hell are the diamonds?
- mangina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I used Ace of Hearts as well. I don't know why.
- joelmole, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No you don't....well, you do, but not in the way you're thinking. From the "trick's perspective", all it knows is that you're spinning the wheel to four different positions and clicking the red button between each turn. You're not supposed to click on the card and rotate it to the letter, but use the handle so it doesn't "know" which card you picked.
The reason I say that you really ARE telling it the answer is basically Paperthin's explanation. - Fungo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's probably because those letters are located in such a way that both are possibilities when the letters for BOOB are selected.
- Deranged, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2you dont specify which card you're thinking of.
My guess is that it creates a 26x4 array(one for each card it has), and stores the letters in the array, and finds out which one makes a word against their dictionary. - kyleh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2boob came up as peep....
- Eyeooga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2queen of hearts and BOOB and it sez: ace of spades and PEEP
- Jergens, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I love it when "CRAP" makes the front page.
- EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*****
And the Ace of Spades.
It's a witch! Burn it at the stake! - chmod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not really about knowing more words with the example you suggested. Both words may have been in its dictionary. There will be a lot of collisions like that for many possible four letter words.
- bigpoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's cool, wonder if there are possibilities of some kind of double match though.
- tr0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, hayes321, You should learn that digg comes with a nifty reply button, buddy.
This magic trick is quite... eh - NitroGrimmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mine was PISS with the 2 of hearts ... it didnt work
- marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It gave me "ISIS".
- keyj63, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It NEVER works for YOYO no mater what card you pick it always says you were thinking GAGA but if you notice when you pick yoyo each time you match yoyo you also match gaga. There are probably other combinations like this that it will guess wrong.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Try LMAO
- brisance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not that magical really... the arrangement of the letters plays an important part. The English language doesn't produce a uniform distribution of consonants and vowels in a 4 letter word, taking a large chunk out of the 26^4 possibilities. Cryptologists have known this for years.
- askldjd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Note that there are 26 × 26 × 26 × 26 or
456,976 possible card+letter combinations! "
The fact that they say there are 456,976 is a complete lie.
In reality, since your card don't change, after 4 moves, there are a table of 26 words for the program to choose from. Think about it, if the program just record each card's movement, it will get a table of 26 words.
Now the program just pick an English word out of 26 choices. I would assume that it chooses by popularity in case of more than 1 word are English. That's why it does not work all the time. - redheadguy719, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2to everyone that doesn't get it, you are supposed to use the handle so you aren't clicking on your card. then it doesn't know what card you're using
- thealliedhacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Disk produces Germ
- rafaelcapanema, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"...think of your favorite 4-letter word..."
- radu79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not really..
I tried a word in a different language, and it worked just fine.. - radu79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1On the other hand, I tried "radu" and it didn't work.
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