Baking for the Holidays

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? 

A murder was committed in the haunted mansion.  The spectator’s job is to determine which of the 12 rooms it happened in.  “I understand”, you explain to the spectator, “that you are an excellent detective.  Is that true?”   The spectator makes a series of random moves on the above board, and winds up in one…