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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:52 pm
by fafner
I am a very rationalist person, so the following experience disturbed me...
I was waiting for my bus, when a man with a turban stopped before me, looked at me, then said me I was marked with luck :huh: I was waiting for the bus anyway, so I let him telling my fortune. Suddenly he wrote something on a paper, folded it, then put it in my hand. He then asked me to choose a number between 1 and 5, then a flower among 3. Of course, that's the disturbing part, what he had writen on the paper was exactly what I had chosen :o I had the paper in my hand during all the experiment, so no chance he could have put another one.
I know many sleight of hand, some very impressive (like transmitting informations with "telepathy" to a person kilometers away), but this one is unknown to me. I still have no idea how he did it.
Do someone here knows the trick? ...before I surrender to supernatural :P

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:12 pm
by fafner
I just realized that I have created the discussion in the wrong area :o
I sure was disturbed to make such a trivial error :P

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:42 am
by jeffbert
Originally posted by fafner@Aug 3 2004, 03:12 PM
I just realized that I have created the discussion in the wrong area :o
I sure was disturbed to make such a trivial error :P

You will pay dearly for this insolent act! :angry:

Let me see if I can quote the line from Lost in Space. The setting is that Dr. Smith has just lost his shirt to an intergalactic slot-machine, and having informed it that he has no money (his last bets were on credit), it informs him:

You have violated intergalactic law. You will be destroyed! :lol:

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:30 am
by ozfiz
this is a good mind reading trick

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mind.php

follow the rules to do it correctly

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:21 pm
by fafner
WARNING: SPOILER FOR PREVIOUS POST

It took me 3 seconds to guess it, and about 1 minute to demonstrate it mathematically:

Here are the 2 digits to choose: X and Y
the number writes: 10*X+Y
you substract the sum of the digits, X+Y: (10*X+Y)-(X+Y)
10*X+Y-X-Y
10*X-X+Y-Y
9*X

Therefore, any number you choose ends up as a multiple of 9. Guess what? All the multiple of 9 had the same symbol :D
And when you try again, the symbols are not ordered the same way ;)

This one was easy B)

Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:15 am
by ozfiz
yea it took as a little bit to figure it out ... but it is still a pretty good trick