How the hell does this work?

[Beta-brain]

It's reading my mind, it's reading my thoughts, I bet it knows I went to one of those kind of web sites last night (http://www.quizyourprofile.com/guessyournumber.swf):redface:

[AmEv]

Man, they blocked the source code!

OK, I'm betting it's based on the first and the "houses." The rest are distractions.

Think of keyboard mesh. Send the voltage on one line, recieve on the other, perfect match.

[NightrainSrt4]

The rest are distractions. There are 25 numbers evenly divided into 5 colors. 5 for each color.

The houses each have 6 numbers, for a total of 30. Each house has one number from each color, plus a number that wasn't in the list originally. You told it which color, then which house. There is only one number of that color in that house, so that must be the one you chose, assuming you didn't lie.

[slaveofconvention]

You are all no fun - tell him the truth!!!!

Since 1992 all monitor and laptop screen manufacturers have secretly installed a mind-reading chip in all LCD panels and CRTs - this website is simply reading the data from that chip.....

*grins and ducks*

[dr.walrus]

The rest are distractions. There are 25 numbers evenly divided into 5 colors. 5 for each color.

The houses each have 6 numbers, for a total of 30. Each house has one number from each color, plus a number that wasn't in the list originally. You told it which color, then which house. There is only one number of that color in that house, so that must be the one you chose, assuming you didn't lie.
This.

You pick a colour, identifying five potential numbers. One of each of those numbers is in each of the houses later on, identifying which one of those five you clicked. That number is put behind the first door you click on.

[Beta-brain]

You are all no fun - tell him the truth!!!!

Since 1992 all monitor and laptop screen manufacturers have secretly installed a mind-reading chip in all LCD panels and CRTs - this website is simply reading the data from that chip.....

*grins and ducks*

Yeeh, I new it! They can't watch me any more though as now I always wear my tin foil pyramid hat that I made, I found the plans for it on a brilliant web site run by the love children of alien abducties and they swear by it 8)

[Beta-brain]

Thanks for that info makes perfect sense now it's explained, It's kept my mates 8 and 10 year old kids (who are way too smart for their age) amused for about 30 seconds, now if I'm real clever I can win their pocket money off them :D