# Oh my God, how does this work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 17, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-how-does-this-work/13888 "2000-02-17T22:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-how-does-this-work/13888/1 "2000-02-17T22:54:00Z")
How does this page work?? Does it work for any of you?? It _never_ fails for me. Why?? How does it work?? [http://www.seanet.com/~lacas/magic.html](http://www.seanet.com/~lacas/magic.html) * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-how-does-this-work/13888/2 "2000-02-17T22:56:00Z")
You are gonna be mad when you figure it out. Haha. pat ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-how-does-this-work/13888/3 "2000-02-17T22:57:00Z")
Am I? I’m so dumb, I just can’t. * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-how-does-this-work/13888/4 "2000-02-17T22:58:00Z")
Ha. I ain’t so dumb 🙂 * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-how-does-this-work/13888/5 "2000-02-17T22:58:00Z")
Sorry, I didn’t mean to laugh at you. I had the same problem the first time I saw it, once I figured it out I had to laugh. As a hint. Compare all of the cards to the cards that are left. pat ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-how-does-this-work/13888/6 "2000-02-17T22:59:00Z")
It works like this. You concentrate on the card that you pick. You fail to concentrated on ANY of the other cards. NONE on of the cards on the new screen were on the old screen. Pretty neat psychological trick, though. Tinker P.S. A friend and I noticed this when we each picked a different card and the “trick” worked for both of us. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-how-does-this-work/13888/7 "2000-02-17T23:01:00Z")
Hint - I think Sparky’s using both barrels of a double barrel shot gun. 😉 Don’t know how he does it with those fins! * * * …in a state so nonintuitive it can only be called weird… ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-how-does-this-work/13888/8 "2000-02-17T23:01:00Z")
humph! Simulpost! Sorry to give it away. Tinker ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-how-does-this-work/13888/9 "2000-02-17T23:01:00Z")
Yeah, I got it when I decided to pick two cards instead of one. Sheesh, now I feel like a boob. Can’t wait to scare some of my conspiracy-minded, techno-phobe co-workers though 🙂 * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-how-does-this-work/13888/10 "2000-02-17T23:02:00Z")
Haha, I told ya you would be mad. pat