#dalbang

Tonight's episode of DalBang was jaw-locking. Literally. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That's what you get when you play with your friends. HAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHHAAHAH.

I really enjoyed tonight's episode. 🥹

So for fun I did the name compatibility thing from this week's ep to see if I could find out some thieves! It took way too long, but I am a scientist and I must find things out

Wild speculation below!

Quick recap on how it works:

You combine two names by alternating syllables, e.g. Namjoon and Jungkook would be 김 전 남 정 준 국 (Kim Jeon Nam Jeong Joon Kook)

Then you count the no of strokes in each syllable:

7 7 8 6 7 6

Then you add each no together until you get two numbers. Anything w two digits, take the second number, so for our example:

7 7 8 6 7 6

4 5 4 3 3 (14 15 14 13 13)

9 9 7 6

8 6 3

4 9%

(or if you put their names the other way around, starting w JK's first syllable it's 90%)

Not sure if all 3 thieves (p sure there are 3) can be found w this or 2/3, since the rules (and the glimpse of the book we got) suggest you can only combine 2 names at a time.

SO, THE KICKER:

According to Tae, the number the two names need to get is 79

BUT!!!

NONE of the pairs, according to my calculations (please correct me if I'm wrong amd you also did them, it's 1am), add up to 79??? So he's either worked out the percentage wrong (since he had to do the other puzzle to get it), or he's lying to the camera!

I combined each pair both ways as mentioned above, e.g.

김 전 남 정 준 국

전 김 정 남 국 준

Because reversing the order usually makes a different score.

The closest pairs to 79 (or at least, those in the 70s) are TAEJOON (72), JIKOOK (77) and JINMIN (77). If the number is actually 77, there's three people who both have 77 (though JINKOOK doesn't score 77 so this theory is probably also a dud, they only get 17 regardless of combo)

Incidentally the most compatible names are SOPE (98), congrats to them

In conclusion, I have no idea but I spent a lot of time adding numbers together not to write this post! Science is about writing your experiments down, after all!!