Vom Beobachten des Beobachters der Beobachter

Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Der Auftrag

a book that I can only recommand ... So weit an den Rand des Abgrundes aber hat sich keiner gewagt wie er ... [Klara Obermüller - Die Weltwoche]

the secret of ... Magic Ball - Magische Zauberkugel

there was [one upon a time] a Internet page www.messe-ideen.de/upload/magische-zauberkugel.swf.
Don't look 4 it, it dissapeared [some call it - it was deleted].
What did it do?

Imagine any two-digit number.
Add then 2 figures and subtract
the result from the original number.
Search then the symbol fitting to the result
in the table and you concentrate upon this.
Click then the crystal ball. .....
and it will show you the symbol .....

Example:
your number: 32 >> 3+2 = 5 >> 32 - 5 = 27
the symbol is a kind of "M" with a tail.

Than a new table is presented. You repeat it
and again [an other] the corresponding symbol
is appearing on the blue ball!

You can repeat it again, and again ... and it
will never fail.

and HOW IS IT DONE?
there is NO magic program behind it ... only a simple program and some math.

let's start lifting the secret: we stop on a screen and choose not one number,
but 11, 12, 13, 14, ... , 98, 99 [all of them]. It does not matter what we choose, as following the instructions we will find out a couple of numbers. For each one there is the same symbol in the table. The symbol that will be generated in the blue ball.
Next screen will have an other symbol [just 2 confuse the russians ;-)] in all this same positions and the magic blue ball will show this time this symbol.


In german it was telling [see the pic]:

Denken Sie sich eine beliebige zweistellige Zahl.
Zählen Sie dann die 2 Ziffern zusammen und ziehen Sie
das Ergebnis von der ursprünglichen Zahl ab.
Suchen Sie dann das zum Ergebnis passende Symbol
in der Tabelle und konzentrieren Sie sich auf dieses.
Klicken Sie dann die Kristallkugel an.
Das Symbol wird in der Kugel erscheinen!

Beispiel:
Ihre Zahl: 32 >> 3+2 = 5 >> 32 - 5 = 27

Dann wird ein neuer Bildschirm präsentiert. Sie wiederholen es
und wieder das entsprechende Symbol [diesmal ein anderes]
erscheint auf dem blauen Ball!

Sie können es wieder, und wieder ... versuchen und es
wird nie versagen.

und WIE WIRD ES GETAN?
es gibt KEIN magisches Programm dahinter ... nur ein einfache Programm und ein bischen Mathematik.

wollen wir anfangen, das Geheimnis zu lüften: wir halten einen Schirm an und wählen nicht eine Zahl, sondern 11, 12, 13, 14..., 98, 99 [alle Zahlen]. Es ist nicht von Bedeutung, was wir wählen, als im Anschluss an die Instruktionen werden wir finden
dass in der Tabelle ein und das selbe Symbol erscheint. Dieses Symbol wird auf dem blauen "magischen" Ball erscheinen.
Folgender Schirm wird ein anderes Symbol [um die Russen zu verwirren ;-)] in all dem zuvor ermitteleten Positionen haben und der magische blaue Ball dieses Mal dieses neue Symbol anzeigen.

Lifting the ... illusion of David Copperfield.

In a moment you will enter a magical world ...
In just a moment...
... You will witness something really strange
You will witness ...
An amazing illusion...
Although this is a common program, you will see that...
I can, through the monitor, see your mind.
You can see 6 different cards.
Think on one.
Just think on it.
Do not touch it
Do not click on it.
I will find the card on your mind

Now look straigth into my eyes and think on your card...
I do not know you,
I could not see the card you have chosen…
...but I know exactly the card that is on your mind...
¡Look!
¡¡Your card is gone!!

¿Surprised?
If you take a close look at the initial cards and at the final cards ... you will find the explanation that is based on lack of human memory ... nothing more ... ;-)

problem solving - thinking out of the box - 4 3's

It's not impossible, you just need to think outside the box a little.
Here goes:

How is it possible to plant four trees so that the distance between any two given trees is the same for any pair of trees. That is, if the distance between tree A and B was three feet, the distance between B and C, C and D, D and B, etc. would all be three feet.

email me ... 2 get the solution/help

Problem resolution - mission impossible

Getting to marry my son ...



Father: "I want you to marry a girl of my choice"

Son: "I will choose my own bride!!!"

Father: "But the girl is Bill Gates's daughter.."

Son: "Well, in that case...ok"



Next the father approaches Bill Gates.

Father: "I have a husband for your daughter...."

Bill Gates: "But my daughter is too young to marry!!!!!"

Father: "But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank."

Bill Gates: "Ah, in that case...ok"



Finally the father goes to see the president of the World Bank.

Father: "I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president."

President: "But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!"

Father: "But this young man is Bill Gates's son-in-law."

President: "Ah, in that case...ok"