Mind Reading a Card–By Phone

Ask someone to name any card.  Then you call Mr. Wizard on the phone, and he tells the person their thought-of card!  How? Read more »

Divining Someone’s Favorite Book

Ask someone to jot their favorite book on a slip of paper, then cover it with their hand, so you can’t peek.  With a little concentration, believe it or not, you can tell them what’s on the paper!  How? Read more »

Mind Reading A Thought-of Word from a Book!

Tell a spectator the word they select in a book! Read more »

What’s Unusual about these Sentences?

Some men interpret nine memos.
Too bad, I hid a boot.
Madam, I’m Adam.
A man, a plan, a canal – Panama!
Doc note, I dissent.  A fast never prevents a fatness.  I diet on cod.

Read more »

Pick an Animal Trick

Introduce your assistant, the great mind reader.  Send her out of the room.  Show a sheet with pictures of 9 animals, with their names beneath the pictures.  Ask a spectator to select any animal.  Invite the mind reader back in.  She correctly reveals the chosen animal!  Want to learn to do this?  Read more »

Can You Make a Pear Disappear?

Here’s a fun bit to show a library patron, or an audience while they are waiting for a program to begin.

Ask your audience if they can make a pear disappear.  Let them think about this.  After a minute or two, show them the secret:  Read more »

Alphabet Soup

Read the following paragraph only once, counting the number of F’s in the paragraph.  How many F’s are there?

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

Answer: Read more »