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The magician, turning his back to the audience, asks them to make a column of three dice, then add the numbers on two adjoining faces of the upper and middle dice, then add to the result the sum of the numbers on the adjoining faces of the middle and lower dice, and finally, add another number to the last sum on the lower face of the lower bone. In conclusion, the column is covered with a scarf.

Now the artist turns to the audience and takes out a handful of matches from his pocket, the number of which turns out to be equal to the sum found by the viewer when adding five numbers on the faces of the cubes.

Focus secret:

As soon as the viewer has added up their numbers, the demonstrator momentarily turns his head over his shoulder, ostensibly to ask the viewer to cover the column with a handkerchief. In fact, at that time he manages to notice the number on the upper face of the upper cube. Let's say it's six. There should always be 21 matches in your pocket. Grabbing all of his matches, Showing, taking his hand out of his pocket, drops six of them back. In other words, he pulls out all the matches without as many as the number at the top of the column. This number of matches will give the sum of the numbers on the five faces.

The fact that the viewer is adding the numbers on the adjacent faces of adjacent dice, rather than the mutually opposite numbers of the same dice, serves as a good disguise for the application of the seven principle.

Focus with cubes and matches
Rice. 1. Clockwise movement

This trick can be demonstrated without using the principle of the seven. You just need to notice the numbers on any two faces of each of the cubes. The fact is that there are only two different ways of numbering the dice, and one of them is a mirror image of the other and, moreover, all modern dice are numbered the same way: if you hold the die so that the triple 1, 2 and 3 is visible, then the numbers it will be located in the reverse order of the clockwise movement (Fig. 1).

By mentally drawing to yourself the relative position of the numbers 1, 2, 3 and remembering the principle of the seven, in order to imagine the location of the numbers 4, 5, 6, you can look at the column from the side (the top face of the top cube is first covered with a coin), correctly name the number on the top face of any cube. With good spatial imagination and a little practice, this trick can be shown with amazing speed.

Author: M.Gardner

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