Impress Your Friends With Simple Mentalism

A well performed magic trick is one of the most impressive things to do on your friends,  especially one that doesn’t require preparation or any special props or apparatus.  Mentalism is one of the easiest and impressive tricks because you can literally do it in the spur of the moment and so it looks like you really have special powers.  Here is a simple mentalism trick you can learn and perform tonight with your friends or family.

Before we begin, remember two very important rules of a magician:  1) practice makes perfect, and 2) a magician never reveals his tricks!

The only difficult part of this trick is developing your patter.  Once you have that down, you will be able to perform this trick anywhere and everywhere.  First, you need an audience.  A dozen people is a good number but you could do it for fewer if the circumstance is such.  Pass out pen and paper to everyone there.  And then tell them that you are going to project your thoughts into their minds.  Tell them to write down the first thought that pops into their head when you tell them too.  This will eliminate them thinking too much about their answer.

Now, tell them to write down a single digit between 1 and 9.  On your piece of paper, write down the number 7.

Next, tell them to write down the name of a vegetable.  On your paper, write CARROT.

Next, have them write down the name of an animal that lives in the jungle.  On your paper, write LION (Ok, not a jungle animal, but just go with us on this one).

Now, have them write down an odd number with two digits that are not the same (ie: 51, 47, etc).  On your paper, write 37.

Next, have them write down an even number with two digits that are not the same.  ON your paper write 68.

Now you are ready to reveal the results!  Show the audience your answers and have them produce theirs.  You will be blown away at how many of them match!  It is simply human nature (call it marketing or programming) that has these particular answers come up first for people.  They will be shocked!  Try it tonight, you will be too!

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