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Heads or Tails ★★
Take two coins and secretly draw an
‘X’
on one of them with a felt pen (see the first
blue figure below). Place this coin on the table with the
‘X’
facing downward. Hand
the other coin and the felt-tip pen to a volunteer and ask that person to draw an
‘X’
on it. While you place this coin on the table, you must quickly and secretly rub off
the
‘X’ with your finger.
The audience will think that you have placed the coin on
the table with the
‘X’
face downward. Ask the audience if they know the position of
the coin with the
‘X;’
as you do this, slowly move the coins around. Ask the
audience again if they know the position of the coin with the
‘X.’
They will always
be wrong. Be sure to conceal your ink-smudged finger(s).
The Magic Paper Clips ★
Effect: Attach two paper clips to a dollar bill and fold the bill. Suddenly pull open
the bill and the paper clips jump out clipped together!
Performance: Fold a dollar bill lengthwise and slide two paper clips onto the bill
about half an inch apart, making sure that they are correctly positioned. Fold the
right end of the bill under the left paper clip. Turn over the dollar bill and repeat the
action. (Observe the diagrams below.) Now pull the two ends of the bill and the
paper clips will jump from the dollar bill and become linked together!
Mind Reading ★
Ask a spectator to think of a number between 1 and 100, and to keep it a secret.
Now, using a calculator, take your age, multiply by 2, add 5, multiply by 50, and
subtract 365. Next, leaving that number from the last step on the calculator, hand
the calculator to your volunteer, and tell that person to add the secret number, then
add 115. The first part of the resulting number is your age, and the rest of the
number is your friend’s secret number!
Mind Reading II ★★
For this trick, choose a volunteer who you know is pretty good at math and
geography. Ask a volunteer to secretly pick a number between 2 and 9. Then ask
that person to multiply that number by 9. Next, tell the volunteer to add the two
digits of the result, and then subtract 5. Tell the person to think of the letter of the
alphabet that corresponds to that number (1 is A, 2 is B, etc.). Tell the person to
think of a country that starts with that letter. Now tell him/her to pick the next letter
of the alphabet, and an animal that starts with that letter. Finally, tell your volunteer
you know what he/she is thinking, and that it is “Elephants in Denmark”…Most
people will come up with that answer. If your volunteer somehow comes up with
something else, tell the audience you clearly heard the person thinking of elephants
in Denmark!