Psychic test using a magazine. Effective trick and its solution

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Psychic test using a magazine. Focus secret

Spectacular tricks and their clues

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Focus Description:

The magician shows a sealed envelope and one of the latest issues of a well-known magazine, explaining to the audience that he wrote one word on a white card in advance and put the card in the envelope. It is this envelope, the one with the card, that he immediately passes to the volunteer (hereinafter referred to as the first viewer). The magician invites the second spectator to go up on stage and assist him in demonstrating the magician's ability to "foresee future events."

The magician hands the second viewer a magazine along with a pencil or felt-tip pen. To prevent the magician from influencing the viewer's free choice of a random word in the magazine, the viewer is offered to hold the magazine behind his back and mark the random word with an X. After the closed magazine is returned to the magician, he asks the first viewer to open the envelope and read the predicted word aloud. Then the magician opens the magazine on the page where the mark X is made. The audience is amazed: exactly at the intersection of the X lines is the word written on the card.

Focus secret:

(A) Take one of the latest issues of the magazine. Unfold about the middle and draw a large X on the right page. Place the mark so that its center is directly on the word, as shown in the figure. Hereinafter, this word - the word "news" - we will call the "Forced Choice Word".

(B) First try to mark the word by holding the magazine behind your back. We recommend making several trials to make the X look similar to the cross that the viewer should get as a result of the same procedure. When you think you're ready, copy your cross into a magazine that you'll take with you on stage. The cross should be drawn in uneven lines, taking into account the fact that it will be drawn behind the back. Never place the center of the cross exactly in the middle of the "Forced Choice Word". Let the center either hook on the end of the word, or lie a little higher or lower, not close enough for everyone to agree - the word is marked just that.

(D) Last step: prepare an analog pencil (or pen) that does not write. Consequently, the viewer will not be able to make notes in the journal. The pencil or pen must match exactly with the pencil or pen that you are to mark in the journal.

1. Show a sealed envelope with a card containing the predicted word. Hand it to the audience in the audience. Take a magazine and demonstrate how the viewer should mark a word on one of its pages. Tell the viewer that it is desirable for him to flip through the magazine, holding it behind his back. When he chooses a page, show him how to fold the magazine with the left side page down. Thus, you will force him to make a note on the right page of the journal. Don't call the pages "left" or "right": just show what the viewer needs to do when they mark and it ends up on the right page.