Amanjit Singh - Be My Friend 1

Be My Friend by Amanjit Singh Instant Stooging Method Effect: You are with your group of friends/colleagues/relatives etc. You choose someone to perform this trick to. You instruct them that in a moment you are going to leave the room for a minute, and while you do that he/she should choose a number from 1 to 5. You exit the room. He/she chooses a number. You enter. You look deep into their eyes and reveal the number. Explanation: You have one of your friends/colleagues/relatives working as a stooge for you (we’ll refer to him as Bob for explanation purposes). As soon as you exit the room, the person you had asked to choose a number chooses and tells everyone in the group. It’s completely natural for someone to discuss something with the group he’s in when asked to choose something. If he doesn’t, then your stooge (Bob) can casually ask him and find out the number. Then you enter the room. From now onwards all work is done by Bob (i.e. conveying you the secret number). Before you do the reveal and the entire dramatization, Bob asks you a question out loud casually; just as a random person would ask a magician when he’s performing in a group of people. Now, the way Bob asks the question, the phrasing of his sentences will help you determine what number your spectator is thinking. Your spectator only has 5 possible options to choose from (since he’s thinking of a number from 1 to 5). So, Bob’s questions are like this: The spectator chooses 1: He doesn’t ask anything. The spectator chooses 2: “Which one?” The spectator chooses 3: “What’s he thinking?” The spectator chooses 4: “What is he thinking?” The spectator chooses 5: “Which number is he thinking?” All you have to do is count the number of words in Bob’s question. For example, if Bob asks,”What’s he thinking?” you immediately know that your spectator is thinking of the number 3 since there are three words in Bob’s question. It’s important to wait for sometime before doing the reveal, because Bob doesn’t ask you anything when the spectator has chosen 1. So if Bob doesn’t ask you a question in the first 5-6 seconds after you enter the room, then you know that it the number 1.

NOTE: You can also make you spectator choose a playing card from a packet of 5 random cards. But it’s important that both you and your stooge know the order of the cards before you leave the room, so that he can ask you the appropriate question.

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