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I used to walk around with a queen of hearts in my pocket and, as a party trick, ask a female friend or acquaintance to "name a card, any card, just not ace of
by cyco130 5y ago
I used to walk around with a queen of hearts in my pocket and, as a party trick, ask a female friend or acquaintance to "name a card, any card, just not ace of spades, everybody picks an ace for some reason". If I got it right, I'd produce the card, otherwise I'd blurt out some "character reading" bs based on what card they picked as an "out".
I learned the trick from a Derren Brown book in which he describes a much more elaborate version. You would be amazed how well it worked. It's just one of those things: A number between 1 and 5? 3. 1 and 10? 7. 1 and 20? 17. And the famous "red hammer" trick. Humans are lousy PRGs.
Of course I could hide several cards in several pockets to increase my chances but that would be "cheating".
- vidarh 5y agoIt works so well that my boss came back from lunch once and described excitedly how some guy had stopped him and run a routine to get him to pick a number and a colour, and as he described the prompts the colour blue and number 7 popped into my head. And they were the right ones.
- memsom 5y agoI just tried the number game on my wife and she got, 3, 7 and 16. I would call that a success. Especially as I had to repeat the last one which gave her more thinking time.
- pmoriarty 5y ago"Of course I could hide several cards in several pockets to increase my chances but that would be "cheating"." All "magic" is cheating. Why not increase your chances and increase the odds of your audience enjoying themselves? As long as you don't claim to have real magic powers and make it clear that it's "just a trick", I don't see a problem with this.
- MisterTea 5y agoI wonder if Alice In Wonderland along with Disney helped make the queen of hearts a memorable card face enabling people who are not as familiar with cards to recall the character.