[Omaha.pm] RE: figure this one out

[Jay Hannah]

From: Patrick Baker [mailto:bakep at cox.net]
> 
> http://www.mrgoodbeer.com/games/wacko.shtml
> 
> Woah.



-spoiler attached- 


Play the game above first if you want to. 



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(I spent about 8 minutes on this.)

Run the math on all possible choices:

#!/usr/bin/perl
foreach $pick (10..99) {
   ($a, $b) = ($pick =~ /(\d)(\d)/);
   $result = $pick - ($a + $b);
   print "$pick: $result\n";
}

No matter what number you pick, there are only 9 possible results. If you look at the pictures associated with those 9 results, they're all the same. The game changes which picture will be the answer for each run, but there's only 1 possible answer, and that's the result it "guesses".

j