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You will need:
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specific card
but make their
decision appear
random?
We rely on our senses to tell us about our surroundings.
However, our senses can be fooled, and we can easily
miss a trick if our brains are concentrating on something
Step 1
Secretly place the Queen of else. Magicians distract their audiences to take attention
Diamonds so that it is the third away from what is really going on. Try these tricks to find
card from the top in the deck out if you, too, can fool the senses.
of cards. Write down the name
of the card on a piece of paper
and put it in an envelope.

Step 3
Ask your friend to point to two
cards. If the first two cards are
chosen, remove them and go to
Step 4. If the first and third cards
are chosen, remove the middle one.
If the second and third cards are
chosen, remove the first one. Then
ask your friend to choose another
card—whichever one is chosen,
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the
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make sure you remove the one
mak
that isn’t the Queen of Diamonds.
Step 4
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Ask your friend to turn over the
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r remaining card and then open
t t he envelope to reveal how your
a
amazing prediction came true.
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your friend to deal out the top
six cards into two rows of three.
Watch to see where the Queen of If you perform in a confident
Diamonds lands. Ask your friend manner, your friend will be
to point to a row and confidently convinced that you are doing what
take away the row that doesn’t he or she has asked you to do.
have the Queen of Diamonds.
In fact, you are doing exactly what
you need to do in order for the
Queen of Diamonds to be picked.
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