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Guessing one of 16 cards. Focus secret

Spectacular tricks and their clues

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The magician guesses one of the sixteen cards that was chosen by his absence.

Focus secret:

It takes two to do this. The secret of this trick lies in the secret of your interaction with the assistant.

You allow spectators to shuffle the deck. After that, lay out sixteen cards face down or face up, four cards in each row. You and your assistant must memorize the words: animal, plant, mineral and verb, which mean one, two, three, four.

While the spectators choose a card, you leave the room and your assistant stays. After selecting the viewers, the assistant selects from the book suggested by the viewers a passage that will be a clue for you. The first of the four conditional words will indicate the row in which the card is located, and the second of the conditional words will indicate the place in the row. For example, your assistant suggested the phrase: "The jumping dragonfly sang red summer."

The first word from our category - dragonfly (animal, means one), indicates that the card is in the first row. The second word - sang (a verb means four), indicates that the card is the fourth in a row. If the first phrase of Hamlet's monologue "To be or not to be" was proposed, then this means that the card is the fourth in the fourth row.

The beauty of this trick is that it can be continued indefinitely until the audience gets bored.

Author: Louis Hoffmann

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