If you like the idea of convincing a room full of people that you have powerful psychic skills, then this trick is for you. It requires only a couple minutes of set up, and it will powerfully demonstrate your incredible skills of psychic projection. Most everybody will quickly be convinced beyond a shadow of any doubt that you have massively powerful Jedi mind skills.
Here’s how the deception will seem to your soon to be extremely impressed test subject. You tell them you have a deck of cards, and you will take each card off the top, and focus on the color, red or black. Then you will shoot the color into their brain, and they will instinctively pick the right color. You systematically go through the whole deck, projecting either black or red into their head.
When you are finished, you will have two stacks of cards. Each time they guess red, you put the cards to the left, and when they guess black, you put the cards to the right. You explain to them that according to the laws of statistics, two or three in a row is hit and miss chance, but more than five or six in a row is evidence of something deeper, something strange. You ask them to pick which to check first, black or red. Then pick up whichever stack is that color, and ask them how many cards in a row would convince them of your powers. Typically they’ll say somewhere between five and ten.
You then carry on to flip ten cards over, all the exact color that they predicted. You have verified your capacity to persuasively project your thoughts into their brain, and they will never look at you the same way again.
Here’s how to do the trick. Ahead of time, you’ll need to divide out all the red and black cards, put them into the deck. So you’ll have 26 black cards on top of 26 red cards. When you are “projecting” the card color into their brain, you’ll go through all the black cards, and all of the red cards. Since they’ll likely choose erratically between black and red, after the first half the trick is over, you’ll have two stacks, with black on top of red, on either side.
They, of course, will assume one stack is utterly black, and one stack is fully red. So when you ask them which stack they’d like to look at first, just keep in mind which color is on top. If they pick red, show them ten cards in a row from the bottom, and if they choose black, present them ten cards in a row from the top. You’ll need to be chatting when you pick up the precise stack, and turn it over in your hands a couple times to keep their awareness off which side of the stack you pull the cards from. This trick always amazes them, and will sway any skeptic beyond a shadow of a doubt of your clairvoyant projection abilities. Have fun.
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