[H-GEN] A clever puzzle

[Frank Brand]

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>Read this message ONE LINE AT A TIME and just do what it says.  You will 
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>glad you did.   If not, you'll feel like an idiot and wish you had
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>1)      pick a number from 1-9
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>2)      subtract 5
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>3)      multiply by 3
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>4)      square the number
>(multiply by the same number-not square root)
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>5)      add the digits until you get only one digit
>(i.e. 64 = 6+4 = 10, 1+0=1)
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>6)      if the number is less than 5, add five.
>Otherwise subtract 4.
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>7)      multiply by 2
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>8)      subtract 6
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>9)      map the digit to a letter in the alphabet  1=A, 2=B, 3=C, etc...
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>10)     pick a name of a country that begins with that letter
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>11)     take the second letter in the country name and think of a mammal 
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>12)     think of the color of that mammal
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>(keep scrolling)
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>DO NOT SCROLL DOWN UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE
>ALL OF THE ABOVE
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>Here it comes, NO CHEATING or you'll be sorry.
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>You have a grey elephant from Denmark.

-- 
Frank Brand
E-mail: fbrand at mailbox.uq.edu.au
Homepage: http://www.uq.edu.au/~zzfbrand
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