Interactive Trick with Batman - General

Kind of a cool trick. Does it work for you? [video=youtube;F8popBoakJ0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8popBoakJ0[/video]

Ended on the black mask... same for others?

This is such a cheap way to make you get to Black Mask. But, he was right nonetheless

I've seen something similar years ago on tv.

Simple, but clever. [sp]Unless you did something wrong, it's impossible to not get it where he wants you to[/sp]

There's got to be at least a little psychology in this. Eg it's perfectly possible to end up on [sp]the cop[/sp] (in case you haven't watched the video yet, in which case do) who gets faded out first, but I guess people just subconsciously don't want to land on him? [editline] 5th November 2013 [/editline] Oops, I was wrong

[QUOTE=Jamsponge;42768270]There's got to be at least a little psychology in this. Eg it's perfectly possible to end up on [sp]the cop[/sp] (in case you haven't watched the video yet, in which case do) who gets faded out first, but I guess people just subconsciously don't want to land on him?[/QUOTE] I'm p sure you can't land on the cop if you did it correctly. You can't move diagonally.

[QUOTE=RautaPalli;42768366]I'm p sure you can't land on the cop if you did it correctly. You can't move diagonally.[/QUOTE] This is correct. The entire motion of this exercise can be proven mathematically. If someone was more dedicated than I was, they could make a hierarchy of diagrams showing all mathematically possible choices. Given the starting diamond shape, the number of motions allowed per cycle, and the order in which he removes pictures, there is only one choice mathematically allowed by the end of it, which is the Black Mask. However, I don't have the patience to diagram all the choices out or drudge up the proof for it.

[QUOTE=Jamsponge;42768270]There's got to be at least a little psychology in this. Eg it's perfectly possible to end up on [sp]the cop[/sp] (in case you haven't watched the video yet, in which case do) who gets faded out first, but I guess people just subconsciously don't want to land on him?[/QUOTE] How?

[QUOTE=Xonax;42768421]How?[/QUOTE] Wait, crap; I went over it and forgot you had to pick one of the initial four. Never mind then, just me not watching the whole video the second time I went through. [editline]5th November 2013[/editline] Yeah, was just me being a retard. Did it again the whole way through and you can't land on the cop.

mixing of the characters and adding some more later on is what makes it more confusing.

This is actually basic graph theory, where the amount of moves he specifies correlates with the constantly changing # of possible movements. For example, in the first setup(where you can pick one of the four before the other characters get filled in), you're given four moves. No matter where you start from, you could never possibly end up on the security guard(furthermore, you could never end up on any corner character.) As a result, you could only land on one of the four original characters. The next move set requires 5 moves, and as a result, landing on the right-center would have been impossible. A clever trick to most, but easily assessed through mathematics.

I actually fucked up because I thought he said that it was my choice whether or not to move so I just stood still and was in a removed square in no time.

As aznz888 says, it's based on graph theory. But I think it shows that math is not always boring. There is in fact number of tricks which can be done just by knowing certain math principle.