2Guess a magic vegetable. This silly trick works almost every time. All you need is some paper and pens, and several gullible audience members. First, place one scrap of paper in your left pocket that says “celery” on it, and place another scrap of paper in your right pocket that says “carrot” on it. Remember where you’ve placed this paper. And you’re ready to begin your trick:[5]- First, hand out paper and pencils to all of your audience members.
- Ask them to complete several easy mathematical tricks, about ten of them, such as multiplying 2 x 2, dividing 10 by 5, adding 3 and 3, and so on. You can say that this is getting their minds ready for mind reading.
- Then say, “Quick, write down the name of a vegetable!” Make sure that people do this as quickly as possible; don’t let anyone “think” about it for too long.
- Call on a random audience member to say what vegetable he wrote down.
- If he says “celery,” pull out the piece of paper in your left pocket that says “celery.” If he says “carrot,” then pull out the piece of paper that says “carrot.” Tell the audience that you have such strong mind-reading powers that you were able to predict what they were going to write down before the trick even began.
- People in the US and Canada pick one of these two vegetables 80-90% of the time. If the person doesn’t say one of the two vegetables, then oh well, you’ll have to move on to another trick! If you’re in a different country with different popular vegetables, then you have to try to find your own “magic vegetable.”
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