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The magician enters the stage. "For this trick, I need an assistant. I will ask one of the ladies present to come up to the stage." When the assistant enters the stage, the magician offers her a chair. “I need to keep an extremely secret package until the end of the trick, and since no one knows how to keep secrets better than women, I invited you,” with these words he hands her a package sealed with sealing wax. "I ask you not to open the package until my instruction and keep it so that it is in full view of the audience at all times. Thank you!"

"I need another assistant who can count well. It could be a man." The artist seats this assistant at a small table, near which there is a shield with a sheet of paper impaled on it. On the table is a jar of paint, there is also a small brush.

Taking out a notebook and a pencil (or a self-writing pen) from his pocket, the magician descends into the auditorium. Approaching one of those present, he gives him a pencil and asks him to write any seven-digit number on the first page of an open notebook, which the magician is holding in his hands; then the pencil is passed to another spectator and he writes any other seven-digit number, exactly below the one previously written. So the artist walks around six people sitting in different rows, and each writes one seven-digit number.

Then the magician goes up to the stage and, tearing out a piece of paper with written numbers from a notebook, passes it to an assistant sitting at the table with a request to calculate the sum of these numbers. The notebook is hidden in the pocket. While the result is being summed up, the host goes to the forefront and talks to the audience, asking them to keep quiet so as not to interfere with the work of his assistant spectator. After a few seconds, the numbers are added up, about which the artist is informed by his voluntary assistant. After checking the result, the magician asks to write the amount received in large on the shield, for this there is paint with a brush on the table. The assistant writes 25 400 674. Then the artist offers to open the "secret" package; from it the assistant takes out a folded paper tape, on which the same number is written large and clearly, in this case - 25 400 674.

The public is amazed. The host thanks his assistants, and they descend into the hall.

Focus secret:

The first half of the secret is in the notebook. This is a regular notepad with loose-leaf paper and a smooth cover with no inscriptions. If you cannot buy such a notebook, it is easy to make a similar cover for it from colored paper. It is better to have two such identical notebooks.

Our magician wrote down six seven-digit numbers one below the other on the first page of the notebook in advance, in our example:

3 825 324

5 337 685

1 238 456

7 622 833

4 127 384

3 248 992

They were written with the same pencil or fountain pen, which was then used by the audience. When the artist wrote the numbers, he changed his handwriting all the time so that the numbers seemed to be written by different people. Having calculated the sum of these six numbers on a separate sheet, the magician knew that it was equal to 25. He wrote this number clearly and large on a paper tape, which he put in a bag, sealed with sealing wax.

When the artist entered the hall, he opened the notebook from the opposite side, and thus the audience wrote down their numbers on the last page of the notebook; so that the trick was not noticed, the magician did not let go of the notebook from his hands. Returning to the stage, he closed the notebook, and then tore out and gave to the spectator-assistant for counting the sheet that he had written in advance.

The magician has a second notebook for replacement in case, after the trick, one of the spectators wants to examine the notebook. That's the whole secret of this number.

Author: Bedarev G.K.

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