Gene Guess

It appears to trigger just on the color selected by the person.....

Top 2 are female, bottom 2 are male.

I want my 10 seconds back.

I just tried all the choices (Since I had some time to kill)

Apparently, you're right. Answering the first answer for question one leads to an error message.
The answers for questions 2 and 4 don't affect the outcome at all.

However, if you pick one of the two shades of pink in the third question, it will say you're female and if you pick grey of dark blue it will say you're male. So you're theory about the color choices is correct.

It said I was male. And yes, I picked one of the darker colours.

It also said I was male. I also think it's the color qeustion because I don't see how the other questions would help them detrime your gender.

The first question was 'which bar is thicker'. Unless you're lying you'll always answer B, and if you choose A it stops.

The second and fourth are optical illusions of movement. I doubt that this illusion is dependant on sex.

The third is simply to pick a pink or gray box.

Seems rather unworkable to me. And it guessed wrong.

And it's not just the color question. It seems to be either random, or dependant on your answers to the last three.

It got it wrong for me. It said click on the colour you least like so I clicked the gray box (which is true) and it called me a woman!! I too would like my 10 seconds back!!

I'm a man, baby. 😛

So I'm going to have to change the status on this thing. Apparently it's a magic trick that doesn't work. Thus, a hoax.

Something must be -really- wrong with me because 1) all the balls are black! and 2) it says I am male.

Mine guessed wrong....

Well, since it's getting everybody wrong he just needs to switch the male and female text. Then it would be correct.

first time said i was male the second time i changed answer to question 3 and it said female

you all seemed to have a different question 3 to me, i had to click a red ball to make it disappear, said it was to test mouse then i had a picture of a man and woman with two black balls beside them and had to choose which one appealed, i chose the man the first time and the second time the woman

My husband and I did it together. We agreed on everything and are both therefore female!

The site picked me as male. Despite my chromosomal oddity, this is probably right.

I'm not sure about the visual illusions, as many more males are supposed to be seeing movement in such illusions than females; But then, the barin is not always gender-specific, as some people show many aspects of the opposite gender in their menatl operations that others. It's a spectrum of behaviour that varies from individual to individual. One of the reasosn I hate it 😉

Same as moonzgirl, no color question but subtly different shaped balls next to pictures of a male and female. Tres it twice, both times was (correctly) deemed male.

The 3rd question is different now (random?), but it still is the key, click the balls near the woman = female, click the balls near the man = male.

Also, if you click the female or male picture when it tells you not to, the black circle you choose doesn't matter.

If you click the female, when you finish it'll tell you that you're male. If you click the male, when you finish it'll tell you that you're female.

Since I'm really bored, I inspected the HTML code in the pages.

Question 2 takes you to the same page no matter which you select.

Question 4 takes you to male or female based on which one you clicked previously, no matter which one you click.

Therefore, the only question that matters is question 3. There are 4 pages that you will arrive at based on whether or not you click one of the pictures. As others have pointed out, if you clicked one picture or the other, then it selects you as the opposite sex. Otherwise, it picks you as the same sex as the balls you select.

No magic at all.

It claimed I was female
I didn't get a different colour box question
my third question was to choose between a number of black balls (didn't see any balls either just circles)


I can do the same thing more accurately with just 1 question.

1) Are you male (Yes/No)
A.1) If you answered Yes you are male
A.2) If you answered No you are female

Unless you lied in your answer my question will determine your sex accurately. Thank you 😊

From what you all are saying, this sounds sort of like a robot version of a "cold reading" like a "psychic" like Sylvia Browne might do. The 50% of people it guesses correctly may spread the word about it among their friends; the 50% it gets wrong will tend to dismiss it as simply a waste of a minute or two and forget about the whole thing. Therefore, those who hear about it at all will tend to be those who hear that it was correct, making it sound like some amazing thing when it's actually just random.

I once read about a great scam that worked in a similar way. You obtain an email list of people who are interested in, say, football betting.

You pick an upcoming game. Half of them you tell that Team A is going to win this week. The other half you tell Team B is going to win.

After the game, you discard the half who received the incorrect prediction. You then pick another upcoming game and do the same thing with the remaining people.

Each week, you repeat this process. After a few weeks, you have reduced your list to a smaller number of people who have received an accurate "prediction" for each of the past several weeks. As far as they can see, you're a freaking wizard (especially if some of your picks were teams that were expected to lose).

You then announce that you are going to make one final prediction, for which you are charging a special price. Many of those people, based on the "predictions" they have seen up to that point, will happily pay for your "wisdom." Win or lose, since you've gotten their fee up front, you cash in Big Time.

It's a great scam. Only the hits count; the misses mean nothing.

Maybe they did away with the color question because people figured out the trick? I tried several times and always ended up with the "pick a ball" question.

There's another website out there that can "analyze" a piece of writing and try to use keywords to determine whether the writer is male or female. It's always wrong though.

You can see a great deal if you set your browser to "View source" and look at the html code for each page. Also, drag your mouse over each choice without clicking and you'll see the next page to be called up with that choice appear in your browser window. If you click on the woman you are automatically directed to choices that always pick male. Vice versa if you pick female. The balls next to the female always direct you to pages that always select you as male and if you select the balls next to the man you are always directed to pages that pick you as female. I also see only black balls. I am betting all Mac users see only black balls. I have an idea on how it works but need more study and trial and error to be sure.

Now the picker question is something about special ducks. Um, okay.

the illusions are very interesting ....

The "special duck" question really takes the cake. Looks like it's new, and they didn't really put too much effort into it. There are many ducks in the image, but TWO are "special," not just one. One is next to the woman in a bikini, one is next to the man in a swimsuit. Pick the woman, you're a man. Pick the man, you're a woman. Not random at all.

I think absolutely any system for predicting gender is going to be right at least 50% of the time. Even if you're a hermaphrodite, Alex, the guess would have to be 50% right.

So I'm profoundly unimpressed with this stunt.

Now its a "Which of these is not like the others puzzle" if you click the duckie near the woman then it says you are male if yo uclick near the man you are female

the whole "clicking near the man/ woman" thing seems more like a test for sexuality than gender

"the whole "clicking near the man/ woman" thing seems more like a test for sexuality than gender"

True. Although what it says about their sexuality in that they determine it through ducks, I don't want to think about. . .

the ducks are now missing !

Here's my Q's on the site, no color Q's etc.

Which line below is thicker ?
If A is thicker , click here
If B is thicker , click here

Relax and look at the optical illusion below :
Do the objects appear to turn slowly ?
Click one:
Yes
No

Look at the optical illusion below:

Which wheel appears to move a bit more?
Click one:
None appear move a bit
A appears to move a bit more
B appears to move a bit more

Below is another optical illusion.
Does the wheel appear to turn slowly ?
Click one:
Yes
No

The third picture is now two circular optical illusions where it asks which moves a bit more, neither, A or B. Just glancing at the url when you hover over the links tells you what it is going to guess. You will see a link with 'xy' and a link with 'xx'. Obviously, clicking the link with 'xy' will be male and 'xx' will be female.

At the end, if you click that the site has guessed incorrect and then click to try again, the next time through it will always pick the other gender. You can tell because of the extra '/surexy/' or '/surexx/' in the urls.

it is coded now so it is difficult to decode it.
th eillusions are facinating though ...

I have discover true... in second question there are 2 hyperlinks on every answer. so, I guess is totally random.

check by yourself