Mental Magic 1- Predicting Birthdates

© Dhaval Bathia

© Dhaval Bathia

Using this technique you can find out a person’s birthdate without him telling you !

Whenever you are in a party, picnic or a groupgathering you can impress many people using this technique

You can try this stunt with your family members, friends, relatives etc.

© Dhaval Bathia

Here are the steps :

a) Ask the people to take the number of the month in which they were born (January is 1, February is 2, December is 12 and so on…)

b) Next, ask them to double the number c) Add 5 to it d) Multiply it by 5 e) Put a zero behind the answer f) Add the date of birth (If a person is born on 12th March, he must add 12)

After the steps are done, ask him to tell you the final answer. And lo ! Just by listening to the final answer you can tell his date of birth !! © Dhaval Bathia

THE SECRET !! From the answer that you get from each member of the audience : • Mentally subtract 50 from the last two digits, (the number that is left on subtracting 50 is the date on which he is born !) • Subtract 2 from the remaining number. (the number that is left on subtracting 2 is the month number on which he is born)

In this way you can find the birth-date of anybody © Dhaval Bathia

Suppose a member of the audience had his birth-date as 20th May

This is how he would have worked out the steps:

(A)Take the month number = 5 (B)Double it

= 10

(C) Add 5 to it

= 15

(D)Multiply it by 5

= 75

(E) Put a zero behind the answer = 750 (F) Add your date of birth

= 770 (750 plus 20 is 770)

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Thus his answer would have been 770

Now, let us see how to deduce his date of birth from 770

7

70

2

50

5

20

From the last two digits, we subtract 50 and get the DATE as 20 From the remaining number we subtract 2 and get the MONTH as 5 Thus, the date is 20 and month is 5. It is 20th May The technique is verified

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On similar lines, if the total was 1076, 865 and 1251 the birth-dates would have been 26th August, 15th June and 1st October.

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10

76

2

50

8

26

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8

65

2

50

6

15

-

12

51

2

50

10

01

With this technique you can predict the birth-dates of hundreds of people simultaneously.

© Dhaval Bathia