Mind Reading A Thought-of Word from a Book!
Tell a spectator the word they select in a book!
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Dropping a Card on Edge?
“When you drop a playing card on the table”, you demonstrate to a spectator, “it lands on 1 side or the other. Can you drop it, from a height of at least 1 foot, so it lands on its edge?”
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Floating a Silver Ball!
Make a silver ball float!
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Half of 8 is…3?
Half of 8 is 3, you claim. And you can prove it! Do you know how?
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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.
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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?
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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:
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Dog Jaw Gag
Complain that your neck has been hurting. Mention that you think you might have a case of Dog Jaw. Ask the person you’re showing this to if they’ve ever heard of Dog Jaw?
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Levitating the Queen!
Show a deck of cards. So you can’t do anything sneaky with them, you place them in a paper (or styrofome) cup. Upon your command, the queen rises out of the deck! Would you like to learn to do this one?
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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 WITHTHE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. Answer: Most will find 3 F’s. Few will find all 6!
