Even-odd and the mysterious addition of coins. Effective trick and its solution

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Even-odd and the mysterious addition of coins. Focus Secret

Spectacular tricks and their clues

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This trick is based on elementary arithmetic beginning. Nevertheless, it often leads to great perplexity even to persons with more than ordinary insight.

You take a handful of coins or tokens and invite one of the spectators to do the same and count to himself whether he is holding an even or odd number of them. You ask the audience to pay attention to the fact that you, without asking him a single question, nevertheless have the opportunity to penetrate into his most secret intentions.

To prove this, you take a certain number of coins, add them to those that he holds, so that if the former number of his coins was odd, then now it would become even, and if it was even, it would become odd.

After asking him to put his coins into a hat held high by another spectator, you pour a certain number of your coins into it.

Then you ask the first spectator whether the number of his coins was even or odd, and when the coins are counted again, it turns out that the total number, as you announced beforehand, is the opposite of the first.

The experiment is repeated again and again with a different number of coins, and the same result is obtained.

Focus secret:

The secret lies in the simple arithmetic fact that by adding odd to even you get odd, and by adding odd to odd you get even. It is only necessary that the number you add, whether large or small, always be odd.

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