Hey, you computer whizzes, how does this number game work?
http://www.quizyourprofile.com/guessyournumber.swf

Choosing the color on the first page narrows it to 5 numbers, and choosing the house with your number narrows it down to one. The other stuff is just there to distract you.

Yes. But there is still a choice of three doors on the last frame - all of which have different numbers.

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all of which have different numbers

I wonder. My guess is that the number you chose appears behind whichever door you click on. Later clicks on the doors will load different numbers simply for the sake of confusion.

Arnie, I thought that was so blindingly obvious it wasn't worth even mentioning. Of course whichever "door" you click on reveals the number you thought of. The program will animate the door to do just that and then animating the others will reveal different numbers.

I did wonder whether that was the case after I'd chosen a door at random. Obviously I couldn't choose a door with my house number since my house has no number.

Yeah. I can see all that..ahhhh...I think. But, tell me this: why are there five houses of six numbers each rather than five houses of five numbers? The numbers 26 to 30 don't appear in the first selection, only in the last. Lemme guess..it's more symmetrical and more confusing!

I'm sorry, but that's not even well done. I feel offended as a mathematician that they didn't try to put any math into it.

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Originally posted by Seanahan:
I'm sorry, but that's not even well done. I feel offended as a mathematician that they didn't try to put any math into it.

Rejoice that they left you out! As a carpenter, I feel offended by the look of those chintzy little houses.