The Colourful Card Tricks

By Teoh P oh Yew www.creativewizard.com.my Email: teohpy@creativewizard.com.my Procedure 1. The Magician Magician hands over 7 pieces of colourful cards (with numbers numbers printed on one side) to a spectator.

2. The spectator is to select one of the the numbers numbers and remember remember it. 3. The Magician M agician then asks the spectator to to arrange all the cards in random order on the table table with the colourful sides facing up so that the Magician cannot see the numbers.

4. The Magician Magician then then starts starts to tap on the colourful cards cards with his magic wand. wand. Following the the pace of the Magician’s tap, the spectat s pectator or is to mentally mentally spell the number that that he has chosen, one letter for one tap. 5. At the last last letter, the the spectator will say, “S “S top!” 6. When the Magician flips over the card that that his magic wand wand touches when spectator spectator says “Stop!”, it is the number that that the spectator spectator has chosen! chosen! How How does the trick trick work?

Magic Revealed

Card color

Number

Spelling

Letters

5

Five

4

8

Eight

5

12

Twelve

6

15

Fifteen

7

13

Thirteen

8

17

Seventeen

9

24

Twent Fou

10

1. The Magician prepares the cards based on the sequence of the number of letters of the numbers on the card. And this sequence is marked following the sequence rainbow colours. 2. The number with the least number of letters is “5” (which spells “FIVE”, 4 letters). 3. The Magician can tap on any 3 cards for the first 3 taps because the spectator will not say “Stop”. 4. At the fourth count, the Magician must tap on the RED card because if the spectator chooses “5”, he will say “Stop” now. 5. If the spectator does not say “Stop”, the Magician will continue to tap following the sequence of the rainbow colours until the spectator says “Stop”. 6. If you cannot remember the sequence of rainbow colours, here an interesting acronym to help you:

R O Y

Gives B irth In

Vietnam

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

Template  You may print out this page on a piece of thin card. Cut out the rectangle (the number side and the colourful side in one piece). Fold into half and stick the two sides together with glue and you will have 7 pieces of cards ready to play this trick.

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