An entertaining routine
where the audience are impressed with your mind reading skills
Effect : The magician is seen to
write something down on a paper note pad and does not allow the spectator to
see what he has written. The magician announces that he is about to ask
the spectator a question and because he can read his mind, already knows the
answer that the spectator will reply back with. The spectator is then asked to
think of a number between one and a hundred or a simple shape such as a
triangle, square or rectangle and reveal this out loud. The note pad is
then shown to find that the magician had written the same number or shape down
on the note pad!
Method : Make a
gimmick by taping a small piece of broken pencil lead to your thumb, ( Use
clear adhesive tape such as Sellotape so that the spectator and audience will
not see it and remember to keep the sticky side facing out ). Initially write
nothing on the note pad, ( only appear to be writing something ) and when
you hide the face of the note pad from the spectator, do so with your thumb
facing the side of the paper that you had supposedly written something on ( See
picture 3). When your victim says the number or shape that they have thought
of, simply write it on the note pad with your thumb and then show it to them as
your prediction.
This trick is really
convincing but depends a great deal on the magicians performance. Try your hand
at acting, look as if you are really concentrating and that the trick requires
real mental effort on your part. This will reinforce the illusion that you
really can read minds.
