Who saw the Today Show this morning
 

There was a guy on there who did a trick and I want to know how he did it.

I am talking about the last trick he did using the calculator. Just click the link below and see what I mean.


I figured GFY would know since the smartest people in the world are here :)

I just posted the link. It is 100 times better than trying to understand what I just said.

he gave them a fake calculator, which has been programmed to always give that answer... (the give away is that in 2nd step she typed in 500, which clearly is not a divisor of the final number they got)... and the $20 bill was the only one in the pile.... so the numbers matched...

Pretty cool trick!

Mind bending it is! :thumbsup

She used her phone. I know how he made him pick the only 20 dollar bill on the table. That was the easy part. I can't figure out how he made them pick that number.

Maybe the trick ends differently if they pick some other number... I dont know actually lol

Tricks
 

I took a small course in faking psychic powers and read several books about tricks like this. One mentioned that when you ask humans to pick numbers, there are certain numbers they pick more than others by a significant amount. He could have changed the variable from 500 as he saw the picked number.
Same way when they ask you to draw a picture. people almost always draw a tree, a house, a horse or stick people.
One cool trick I learned is the newspaper article trick. You have cut out a long newspaper article and start cutting of a 1/2 inch or so of the bottom. Ask a person while you cut more to say stop. You stop, drop the article to the floor. Ask them to pick it up and read the last sentence.
You ask them to pick one of the words in that sentence. When they do, you pick an envelope out of your jacket pocket and that word is written on on a piece of paper in the envelope.
Trick is you cut the article from the headline, then hold the article upside down, relative to the headline. By holding the article away from your audience they don't realize the article is upside down. So when they pick a word, they are actually picking from a sentence you have already determined.
The word in the envelope. A standard line in a newspaper article has 5 or 6 words other than "a," "the" or "and." People will pick a bigger word. You have those words stuffed in various jacket pockets. Just have to remember which word is in which pocket.
James Randi, Joe Nichols and others have written articles and books on how mentalists pull off their tricks.
Nichols books are fascinating. He dropped out of college to become a carnival fire eater when the eater got burned. Gave away a lot of trade secrets.

If you have a mind, Yes :Graucho

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So you are saying he used her phone and did this and gave it back to her to do the trick? They would know if he was playing with her phone first

Thanks :)
He must have set it up on her phone. Makes sense now and I know it was the only 20 dollar bill in the pile. He pretty much told him to pick it. That part was easy but I didn't know the iPhone did that. Now I am going to amaze some people

Love it, neat

lol
 

:thumbsup oh that was weird




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