For the Mystic within?

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<p><a href=“http://trunks.secondfoundation.org/files/psychic.swf[/url]”>http://trunks.secondfoundation.org/files/psychic.swf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>See if you can figure it out, it took me 9 times;)</p>

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<p>I started to do this, and then it occurred to me that this might be Karl Rove up to one of his mind control tricks. I became too frightened to continue.</p>

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<p>OK, I give. What’s the explanation? I only did it about 6 times, but I must be too tired to figure it out. Good thing I’m not taking an SAT today.</p>

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<p>POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT (although these are just suggestions of how to figure out the answer, not the answer itself):</p>

<p>Pay very close attention to the symbol in the answer table for the one particular answer you just used, then push the button 3 or 4 more times (as if you’d used the same input number, just looking at the same answer symbol) and watch what happens to that answer in the table. Then stare at the answer table some more and do in your head a few more 2-digit combinations without actually pushing the button and see if you don’t notice a pattern emerging…</p>

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<p>Driver, jmmom, mootmom (lottsa moms),</p>

<p>I already gave you a hint in my first post. Putting aside mind-melding with Karl Rove, keep this in mind:</p>

<p>It took me</p>

<p>9 times;)</p>

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<p>look at the 0, that is the symbol that will always show up. Why…:)</p>

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<p>try doing it with 10, then 20, then 30 …see if you see the pattern</p>

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<p>POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT 2 FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO FIGURE IT OUT THEMSELVES:</p>

<p>Ok, guys, I’m awake now. I knew it would have something to do with “nines”, as my fifth-grade teacher taught us a few “nine” tricks in math/arithmetic class.</p>

<p>I just didn’t notice the table “morphing” at first.</p>