A Madam-Psychic Card Trick Over The Telephone
© 2010 By Ed Glassman
Taken from his book:
“Family Magic I & II: 105 Easy-To-Do Tricks For My Family”
Available from Amazon.com and from his website http://www.offbeatbooks.net
Baffling pretend-psychics abound in the magical world of card tricks. All are tricksters who entertain and amuse. I chose this trick for my new book: “Family Magic I & II: 105 Easy-To-Do Tricks For My Family” because it is quick and totally mysterious.
THE TRICK
Consider this supernatural & strange magic. I ask a spectator-volunteer to call out a card, any card. I go to the phone, call my friend, the psychic, say hello several times, and give the phone to the spectator-volunteer, who reports that the psychic told her the identity of her mentally Chosen card. WOW.
How did that happen? It may help if you answer the following questions:
How did the psychic know the card the spectator-volunteer called out?
Why did I say hello twice?
How did I communicate the mentally chosen card to the psychic?
The wizard knows all. I did the trick this way...
THE SECRET
People suspect elaborate codes account for this trick. Not this one. As soon as the ‘psychic’ lifted her phone to her ear, she slowly counted from 1 to 13. When she said the value of the card, I said, “Hello.”
Then she said the suits slowly. When she said the correct suit, I said, “Hello.”
In this way, I conveyed the mentally Chosen card the spectator-volunteer called out to the psychic. A simple mind-boggling trick, to be sure.
TELEPHONE-PSYCHIC TRICKS
Telephone psychic tricks abound. They are similar to the blindfolded magician who knows all and sees all while his eyes are covered. Most such magic acts use elaborate codes so the magician can transmit lots of information to the ‘psychic.’ Such elaborate tricks don’t fit here.
I chose this trick because it involves a minimal secret interaction between the magician and the ‘psychic’ cutting down on the amount of time and labor.
NO HANDS CARD TRICKS
In my two Family Magic books (I & II), I discuss the concept of the ‘No Hands Card Tricks,’ tricks so easy to do that the magician does not touch the cards. Instead, he gives the deck to the spectator-volunteer and coaches her to do the trick. ‘Family Magic II has over 50 tricks of the ‘no hands’ type.
Not only did I not touch the cards during this ‘psychic’ trick, no one else did either. The identity of the card was conjured up in the mind of the spectator-volunteer. Please send me questions about magic through my website: http:www.offbeatbooks.net
©2010 by Ed Glassman
Ed Glassman has been an amateur magician since his teen years, As he puts it: “I wrote Family Magic I & II to bring magic into the lives of my family.”
He now lives in Moore County, NC, where he wrote a column on “Creativity At Work’’ two times a week for the Citizen’s News-Record and a column on “Business Creativity” for the Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh.
A Professor Emeritus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he lived in Chapel Hill, NC for 34 years and wrote several books on creativity at work.
He founded the Program For Team Excellence and Creativity at the university. He led problem-solving creativity meetings and creative thinking workshops-seminars for many large and small companies.
He was a ‘Guggenheim Foundation Fellow’ at Stanford University and a ‘Visiting Fellow’ at the ‘Center For Creative Leadership’ in Greensboro, NC.
He can be contacted at his website: http://www.offbeatbooks.net
© 2010 By Ed Glassman
Taken from his book:
“Family Magic I & II: 105 Easy-To-Do Tricks For My Family”
Available from Amazon.com and from his website http://www.offbeatbooks.net
Baffling pretend-psychics abound in the magical world of card tricks. All are tricksters who entertain and amuse. I chose this trick for my new book: “Family Magic I & II: 105 Easy-To-Do Tricks For My Family” because it is quick and totally mysterious.
THE TRICK
Consider this supernatural & strange magic. I ask a spectator-volunteer to call out a card, any card. I go to the phone, call my friend, the psychic, say hello several times, and give the phone to the spectator-volunteer, who reports that the psychic told her the identity of her mentally Chosen card. WOW.
How did that happen? It may help if you answer the following questions:
How did the psychic know the card the spectator-volunteer called out?
Why did I say hello twice?
How did I communicate the mentally chosen card to the psychic?
The wizard knows all. I did the trick this way...
THE SECRET
People suspect elaborate codes account for this trick. Not this one. As soon as the ‘psychic’ lifted her phone to her ear, she slowly counted from 1 to 13. When she said the value of the card, I said, “Hello.”
Then she said the suits slowly. When she said the correct suit, I said, “Hello.”
In this way, I conveyed the mentally Chosen card the spectator-volunteer called out to the psychic. A simple mind-boggling trick, to be sure.
TELEPHONE-PSYCHIC TRICKS
Telephone psychic tricks abound. They are similar to the blindfolded magician who knows all and sees all while his eyes are covered. Most such magic acts use elaborate codes so the magician can transmit lots of information to the ‘psychic.’ Such elaborate tricks don’t fit here.
I chose this trick because it involves a minimal secret interaction between the magician and the ‘psychic’ cutting down on the amount of time and labor.
NO HANDS CARD TRICKS
In my two Family Magic books (I & II), I discuss the concept of the ‘No Hands Card Tricks,’ tricks so easy to do that the magician does not touch the cards. Instead, he gives the deck to the spectator-volunteer and coaches her to do the trick. ‘Family Magic II has over 50 tricks of the ‘no hands’ type.
Not only did I not touch the cards during this ‘psychic’ trick, no one else did either. The identity of the card was conjured up in the mind of the spectator-volunteer. Please send me questions about magic through my website: http:www.offbeatbooks.net
©2010 by Ed Glassman
Ed Glassman has been an amateur magician since his teen years, As he puts it: “I wrote Family Magic I & II to bring magic into the lives of my family.”
He now lives in Moore County, NC, where he wrote a column on “Creativity At Work’’ two times a week for the Citizen’s News-Record and a column on “Business Creativity” for the Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh.
A Professor Emeritus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he lived in Chapel Hill, NC for 34 years and wrote several books on creativity at work.
He founded the Program For Team Excellence and Creativity at the university. He led problem-solving creativity meetings and creative thinking workshops-seminars for many large and small companies.
He was a ‘Guggenheim Foundation Fellow’ at Stanford University and a ‘Visiting Fellow’ at the ‘Center For Creative Leadership’ in Greensboro, NC.
He can be contacted at his website: http://www.offbeatbooks.net
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