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i love math/"psychic" tricks

Ooooh. I remeber one that goes something like "Pick a number between 1 and 100 that is not divisble by 5 and does not have repeated numbers and the second digit is greater than three" and the result, most of the time, comes out as something like 67. I forget how it goes, but it is a nice trick.
 
The kids at teh shelter taught me a game called 'black magic', which is a common 'psychic trick'.

The seer leaves the room or is blindfolded or somesuch, they have a conspirator, who is the one that will ask the seer "Is it this object?", at some point the consiprator will ask "Is it this object?" and the seer will say "Yes."

And bingo it is the object that the stooge chose.


The object preceding the correct object will be black in color.
So any object pointed to will be "No.", until the one after a black object.


The kids laughed at me very hard.
 
rjh01 said:
I know one close.

1. You have a group of people, one of whom is your stooge.
2. They all write something on a piece of paper.
3. They fold it and put it in a hat you provide. Your stooge does something so that his paper is drawn out last.
4. Now comes the magic part. You take out one piece of paper and without looking at it say what it says.
5. Your stooge confirms that is correct.
6. You then read the paper. Confirm that is what it is written.
7. Draw out the next piece of paper and before reading it say what was on the previous piece of paper.
8. Someone confirms this is correct.
8. Repeat steps 6 - 8 until there are no more papers left. The last piece of paper to be drawn out is your stooge's paper.
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Yes, that is the same mechanism. That one looks good.
 
Not really a math "trick":

Tell someone that you have eleven fingers. Place your spread fingers out and count your fingers starting at the left hand pinkie. "One, two, I'll skip these three." At this point, start counting the right hand pinkie and say, "Four, five, six ... eleven."

Here's a quick chart of how you'll count
1...2...11...10...9...8...7...6...5...4 (You'll "skip" counting 11, 10, and 9)
 
Little 10 Toes said:
Not really a math "trick":

Tell someone that you have eleven fingers. Place your spread fingers out and count your fingers starting at the left hand pinkie. "One, two, I'll skip these three." At this point, start counting the right hand pinkie and say, "Four, five, six ... eleven."

Here's a quick chart of how you'll count
1...2...11...10...9...8...7...6...5...4 (You'll "skip" counting 11, 10, and 9)
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No, that is not right. You start counting slowly on your fingers, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5. So now you have counted the fingers on one hand. You now point to the other hand and say "and 5 makes 11".

But before you do that count your fingers normally. When you finish you say you must have made a mistake. Then do the above paragraph. Will fool a small child.
 
Careyp74 said:
I can't remember the specifics, but there was a trick I used to do when I was little involving three small pieces of paper. You would ask a question, have the person think of the answer, and write it down on the paper and fold it up. Then you ask the person what he thought of. You do this three times with three different questions. Then you open the pieces up and show him that you wrote down those three answers.

The trick was that the last question you already knew the answer to, and that is what you wrote down first, and then after asking the second question, you write down what his answer to the first question was.

Does anyone remember the specifics to this one?
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Reminds me a little of this one:

-Pick a number between 1 and 10.
-Mutiply it by 9.
-If you get a two-digit number, add the digits together. if not, use the one digit number.

(At this point, everyone will have the same number: 9.)

-Subtract 5 from your number.
-Assign your number to an alphabet letter: 1 is A, 2 is B, and so on.
-Think of a European country beginning with your letter.
-Take the last letter of your country, and think of an animal beginning with that letter.
-Take the last letter of the animal, and pick a color beginning with that letter.

Tell them, "Denmark, kangaroo, and orange". I've amazed people with this one. It helps if your target's intelligence is somewhere between "not so aware of number tricks" and "knows that Denmark is a European country".
 
Pretty simple one but should work fine with kids

Tell them to pick a 4 digit number
Subtract 2 and stick a 2 in front and write the result down

Tell them to pick a second 4 digit number
Write your own 4 digit number underneath but make sure each digit is 9 – their digit in that spot

Repeat the above

Tell them to add all 5 numbers, then show them the number you wrote down previously. It should match.
 
Three men are driving late at night and their car breaks down near a resort, so they go in and look for rooms for the night. It turns out there is only one available but it costs $300, but since it’s only $100 each they take it. A little while later the bellhop comes up and tells them the manager mad a mistake and it’s only $250, and gives them $50 back. That turns out to be to hard to split so they take $10 each and give the bellhop the other $20. The hotel got $90 from each of them and the bellhop got another $20 for a total of $290, what happened to the other $10?
 
lomiller said:
Three men are driving late at night and their car breaks down near a resort, so they go in and look for rooms for the night. It turns out there is only one available but it costs $300, but since it’s only $100 each they take it. A little while later the bellhop comes up and tells them the manager mad a mistake and it’s only $250, and gives them $50 back. That turns out to be to hard to split so they take $10 each and give the bellhop the other $20. The hotel got $90 from each of them and the bellhop got another $20 for a total of $290, what happened to the other $10?
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hookers and blow
 
lomiller said:
Three men are driving late at night and their car breaks down near a resort, so they go in and look for rooms for the night. It turns out there is only one available but it costs $300, but since it’s only $100 each they take it. A little while later the bellhop comes up and tells them the manager mad a mistake and it’s only $250, and gives them $50 back. That turns out to be to hard to split so they take $10 each and give the bellhop the other $20. The hotel got $90 from each of them and the bellhop got another $20 for a total of $290, what happened to the other $10?
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I see what you did there. Sneaky!
hotel has 250. Bellhop has 20. Customers have 30 =300

Or Hookers and blow...or blown by Hookers.

I checked it in sterling and it still works. :)
 
lomiller said:
Three men are driving late at night and their car breaks down near a resort, so they go in and look for rooms for the night. It turns out there is only one available but it costs $300, but since it’s only $100 each they take it. A little while later the bellhop comes up and tells them the manager mad a mistake and it’s only $250, and gives them $50 back. That turns out to be to hard to split so they take $10 each and give the bellhop the other $20. The hotel got $90 from each of them and the bellhop got another $20 for a total of $290, what happened to the other $10?
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I'm a little embarassed that this threw me for a loop for a while. :)

One issue, technically, this statement is a lie.
The hotel got $90 from each of them and the bellhop got another $20
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Obviously, the rest of the statement makes it clear, but there's something inelegant about including a lie when a misleading statement would work.

If instead of "The hotel got $90 from each of them", which is untrue, you phrased it as "They each paid $90" the confusion is preserved without making any false statements. In my mind it makes the trick better.
 
Cavemonster said:
I'm a little embarassed that this threw me for a loop for a while. :)

One issue, technically, this statement is a lie.


Obviously, the rest of the statement makes it clear, but there's something inelegant about including a lie when a misleading statement would work.

If instead of "The hotel got $90 from each of them", which is untrue, you phrased it as "They each paid $90" the confusion is preserved without making any false statements. In my mind it makes the trick better.
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when I first heard this it was three people buying a television and was told as you suggest.
 
Boy, inflation has sure made the value of money go down. When I heard the three-guys-in-a-hotel puzzle about 40 years ago, the hotel room was $30 and they each paid $10.
 
My fave is to get someone to draw a bird then get them to point at the beak, the wing and the tail saying its name out loud.
They do this a few times then you point at the wing and ask them to remember it but don't say it.
You then fold the paper, roll it up and get them to extend their index and little fingers (aka: Metal Horns) and put the paper tube over their fingers. Then ask them to say the name of the last thing they pointed at three times.

"wing wing wing"

Then you pick up the paper tube and hold it to your ear like a phone and say: "ello"

(I hope that made sense)
 
My favorite:

Billy's mom has three kids, Penny, Nickle, and...
 
You tell some one you can make them say "fourteen". You emphasise: "Fourteen....one, four....OK?"

You then ask "whats five add five?" they answer "ten"

Ask "what's ten add ten?" they answer "twenty"

Lastly, "Twenty add twenty?" they answer, of course, "Forty".

You point a finger looking victorious and smug and say something like "Ahaaaah!"

They invariably come back with a puzzled "but you said fourteen!"

:-]


Compus
 
There's a similar one to that where you tell someone you can make them turn their hands over. You get them to hold out their hands and tell them "not like that, the other way" :D
 
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