I hate things like this.  There is obviously a logical reason for how it works, but i can never figure them out!! 

Zaph or Olly ... they will know

(They are cleverer about this sort of thing than the rest of us)

dunno but i put the boots app on my phone, the eyesight thing

i need glasses

does that help?

Witchcraft !!!

C'mon............you clever peeps can sort this surely  

i tried and it got it wrong 

Ello you    What do you mean?    did the puzzle get it wrong?

Sandra Happy NY et all ... haven't seen you for a million years - hope you and yours are well

I haven't looked yet, but Mr C got a card thing like this sent to him last week, and I figured it right away. I'm sure it's because it gets you to focus on a colour and the number.  So when you get the answer they have changed all of the numbers from the original ones you look at, but you are only looking for your number and don't realise all of the numbers are different.

I will go test my theory.

*cough* did you get that Pam?

could you like, explain it to me in words of one syllable??

Hmmmmm, scrap my theory 

Yes, it's all about re-distributing the numbers and using colours to narrow down your choice. The selection of the colour from about 9 (i can't remember exactly) I think is a red herring and does not have a bearing on the outcome.

Will do   

Phew

I kinda thought it had something to do with the colour but.............

I don't know what happened, but I've just done it again, and it got it wrong, all the numbers had changed.  I'll keep investigating.

I officially give up.  Plus my pen has ran out 

Oooooo! 

See, I nearly had it worked out, but then my pen ran out too

Or summat

PMSL! you two! 

Ahhhh I hate things like this, I end up playing them for ages just to see how many times it gets it right.  I was introduced to http://uk.akinator.com/ recently and have spent ages trying to beat the idiot.

I'm back with a sharpened lipstick, this WILL NOT beat me 

*waits behind Cinds*

By jove I've got it......it think 

I'm not even going to click it Ells ... I'm really not, not ever. Nope

Ells, I'll save that link   and ROFL Cinds!  

Right, c'mon........we're all agog! 

So here we have it.  Forget the crystal balls and the doors the answer lies within the colour of the first number, and the house your number sits in.

In my last try I chose number 21 (which is a pink colour).

So the numbers sit in these colour groups. (they never change)

Green numbers are: 9 12 16 23 25 

Pink numbers are: 1 6 14 21 22

Black numbers are: 7 8 11 19 24

Blue numbers are: 3 4 10 17 18

Red numbers are: 2 5 13 15 20

(So there are 5 numbers in each colour group. When you click the colour of your number you have just narrowed it down from 25 numbers to 5)

After you have clicked the colour group of your number it asks you to choose a colour, this is a distraction tactic.

You are then given a choice of 5 houses, each containing 6 numbers, so the range of numbers has changed from 25 to 30.

The houses contain these numbers (and that never changes either)

House A: 1 4 11 12 13 30

House B: 2 9 10 21 24 26

House C: 8 14 17 20 25 28

House D: 3 5 19 22 23 27

House E: 6 7 15 16 18 29

So if you look, no number that appears in each colour group, appears in the same house.

I chose 21 a pink number (pink numbers are 1 6 14 21 22), the other bits they ask are irrelevant, number 21 appears in house B (numbers are 2 9 10 21 24 26).

So by telling them the colour and the house, because additional numbers were added, they know your number. 

Call me Sherlock, Sherlock Cinds 

It took me ages to type it.  Plus I was crying over my ruined lipstick 

Call me Tired, Tired Rexi

I will look at this in the morning ... it looks far too complicated to attempt tonight

 But, but I spent so long.......

Night Rexi. 

I probably did it wrong but it didn't get mine right ................i'm off to try again!

hya and a happy new year to you and yours ................ 

I'll have a look and let you know!

It#s quite simple really. Most of it is irrelevant.

So:-

Pick a number, (there are 25 numbers and there are 5 colours. Each colour has 5 numbers) then click the colour of that number, The program now knows which group of 5 your number is in.(all the instructions to say or think so many times are just to confuse) You then click on a coloured rectangle, again this is to confuse, All it does is take you to the next page.

The next page has 5 houses with 6 numbers in each.

Each house has one erroneous number (over 25) and ONLY ONE number from each colour group. So as soon as you tell which house contains your number, the program can match it to the colour that you clicked on originally. Hay Presto, it will be behind whichever door you open. and it is of no consequence which door you choose. If it appears to get it wrong, then I'm afraid that means YOU have made a mistake.

Thanks Cinds and Fluffers. I think I get it now