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A Psychic Number Trick
GRAB A PEN AND PAPER
Now think of an important event in your life.
You can pick any event you like, as long as it has a deep meaning to you. It could be a birth of a child, your wedding day, the day you got your first car. Anything, as long as it has meaning to you.
Got one? Good. I’d like you to visualize it in your mind. Close your eyes if you want. Make the pictures large and bright and clear, make the sounds loud and vivid.
Open your eyes and write down the year that the event happened.
Now, I want to to move on in your mind. Visualizing all the years since that event, all the things that have changed as a result. Imagine it like a montage in a movie, with little snippets from here and there, until you reach the present year.
Now write down the number of years that have passed since this event.
Have you had a birthday yet this year?
If so, I want you to picture that day in your mind. If you had a party, remember that. If your birthday hasn’t happened yet this year, I want you to project forwards in time to your party, imagine what you want to do and who you want to be with.
Now open your eyes and write down what age you became (or you will become) on that birthday. Count the candles on the cake if it helps.
You now have four numbers written down. Add them all together.
Did you get 4018?
Want to know how it works? (more…)
Magic Macaw Rocks The Geocities Look
SINCE I’M IN A RETRO MOOD, I thought I’d link to Magic Macaw, which has a very small selection of interactive predicition tricks.
They’re not great, they’re easily guessable, but check out the wallpaper! That’s some seriously nostalgic HTML.
That bird has some serious Geocities styling going on.
Three Rows Card Trick
ONLINE CARD TRICKS have been around for many, many years.
You can tell this because there’s a site called eCardTricks — seriously, who’s started a site with an “e-” name since 2001? Nobody! It must be an old site.
But it’s a good one, with a selection of eight or nine prediction effects that work through your web browser.
Head over there and try out their “Three Rows” card trick. I’ll give you five seconds to figure out how it’s done.
New iPhone Trick From Richard Wiseman
RICHARD WISEMAN, the noted psychologist and magician, has released a new app for the iPhone called Telepath.
It’s been getting good reviews, including this one from none other than Derren Brown, who said it “genuinely triggers that ‘wow – how did you do that?’ response” which has to be a good recommendation.
It looks like the app was designed and/or programmed mainly by Sarah Angliss.
She says: “Telepath can also be used to predict numbers, cute animals, cards and dates — so can even improve your love life.”
Here’s a video of Richard and his friend demonstrating it. (more…)
Marco Tempest’s Mindcam
IN MY LAST POST, I mentioned techno-magician Marco Tempest, so I thought I’d link to what, in my opinion, is his greatest effect, Mindcam.
In this effect, Marco seemingly psychically projects the image of a card onto a digital photo we saw him take moments earlier. It’s a really stunning trick.
Marco’s web site has videos of a few more performances. In each one, the chosen card is different. I’d love to know how he does this.
