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From: rob@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Wallen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: 3in3 spoiler wanted...
Message-ID: <3138@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Date: 4 Mar 91 08:22:03 GMT
References: <3137@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Reply-To: rob@murtoa.UUCP (Robert Wallen)
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <3137@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> rob@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Wallen) writes:
>Well, I have got most of the way thru 3in3 but am now stuck at 'Learn your
>A.B.Cs' -- you know, the letter game where you have to determine the rules as
>you go.  I dont have the first foggiest idea about even what sort of pattersn
>I should be looking for.  Does it have to do with the patterns on the letter
>'card's?  Or the typeface used?  Or possible word forms?

And of course about an hour after having 'given up' I worked it out with some
choice example hands and a table of results being drawn up.  The answer to
the above questions is (are?) NO, NO and NO.  Its all in the letters.

Thanx to Chang.P.Woo@dartmouth.EDU for a hint which didnt get here in time to
make a difference.

*** A hopefully obscure hint lurks behind this ^L

Sum of the digits of a multiple of nine is a multiple of nine.