Instructions / Assembly

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11. NUMBER MYSTERY
Read someone’s mind by guessing the number they are thinking of!
PROPS USED: 6 Number Cards
SUPPLIES NEEDED: Paper and pencil
THE SECRET: Adding the numbers in the top left-hand corner box on selected cards will give you the
number the person is thinking of.
SHOW:
1. Now you get to show your math wizardry! Ask a volunteer from the audience to think of a number
from 1 to 63 and write it on a piece of paper. Tell the volunteer to show the number to the audience
but not to you.
2. Hand the volunteer the six cards. Ask him to give back any card on which the number appears.
3. Look at the numbers in the top left-hand corner box on each of these cards. Add these numbers quickly
in your head. This will be the most difficult part of the trick, but you can do it. The sum of these numbers
will be the number the volunteer chose.
4. For variety, you can ask a volunteer to think of a number that is the date of their birthday, the age of a
parent or brother or sister, etc.
12. CRAZY COINS
Four quarters disappear from a cap held in one hand and magically reappear in the other hand!
PROPS USED: Crazy Coin Cap, Double-Sided Tape
SUPPLIES NEEDED: 5 quarters
SECRET: An extra quarter is taped to the bottom of the cap. You turn the cap over and secretly slip out the
four quarters, but it still looks like the quarters are in the cap.
SECRET SETUP: Stick a quarter in the space on the bottom of round cap using a piece of double-sided
tape.
SHOW:
1. Say, “Keep your eyes on my hands, because the hand can be quicker than the eye!” Place the cap in the
palm of your hand with the secret quarter hidden on the bottom of the cap. Show the audience that your
other hand is empty.
2. Have a volunteer place four quarters in the cap. When they are finished, close your hand – and as you
close your hand, secretly turn the cap over. See FIGURE 1.
3. With the cap in your fist, shake the cap near someone’s ear to show that the quarters are inside. Bring
your hand back and open it. The side with the single quarter will be up, but the audience will think they are
seeing the top of a stack of four quarters.
4. Lift up the cap with your other hand. As you do so, curve your hand around the four quarters that will be
left in it and make a fist. See FIGURE 2.
5. Make a fist with your other hand turning the cap over again as in FIGURE 1, but this time the empty side
of the cap will be up.
6. Open your hands and show the empty side of the cap up in one hand and the quarters in the other. The
quarters will seem to have jumped from the cap to your other hand! See FIGURE 3. Your audience will be
very impressed.
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