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Wouldn't that trick work equally well by just learning your friend's number and actually dialing it? I don't see where the phone thing comes into play here.
by corin_ 13y ago
Wouldn't that trick work equally well by just learning your friend's number and actually dialing it? I don't see where the phone thing comes into play here.
- taejo 13y agoThe name is chosen by someone who isn't in on the trick.
- corin_ 13y ago> then pretend to dial and ask for that name, your friend says something "Yes, that's me, who are you?" As long as I tell my friend "I'm going to call up, pretend you are whoever I ask for", then when I call up and say "hello is Mr X there?" it's irrelevant whether I just dialed my friend, or whether he was sat on the line waiting for me to fake dial.
- criley2 13y agoYou've missed the point of all of this. The person being duped provides a name and a number. You leave your line open with a friend. Then you dial the new number, which doesn't work because the line is open, but it appears to work, fooling the person being duped. Dialing the new number is a required part of the illusion so the person you are duping believes you are calling the person they provided the info for. If you just dial your friends number and don't use the fake number... and they see you doing that... then that's stupid and your friends would have to be exceedingly trashed to fall for what is essentially you just dialing a friends number and talking to them.
- lmm 13y agoWhere does the person being duped get the number from? I thought the whole point of the trick was that they would give you a name and you'd come up with a number for it.
- arh68 13y agoThe trick is that you (or even the audience) actually dial Mr. Smith's number in front of them. The trick is no good if you dial your friend's number openly.