Long Distance Telepathy

What seems to happen

Long Distance Telepathy You spread out a deck of cards face up, and ask a spectator to choose any one at all. When she has done so, ask her if she wants to change her mind. nine When she has finally settled on a card ( for example the nine of spades ) you announce that you absolutely knew in advance which card she would take. In fact you even told a friend.

You ask the spectator to pick up the phone and call your friend, Phil Taylor, and ask him what card she chose. When she does so, your friend Phil answers: Why you took the nine of spades, didn't you?

How it works

Long Distance Telepathy Obviously, you need a buddy who can be anywhere in the world, and who is at home or has a cell phone.

Either copy or print out the chart below. Your buddy has a copy. Your copy is in your black book of phone numbers. Once you know she has decided on a card, say the nine of spades, you fake out your black book to get the phone number, supposedly. But really you are looking for the key name for the nine of spades. (Actually, if you study the chart, you can have it emorized in a few minutes and then you never need to look nine anything up!)

The first name corresponds to the value; therefore nine equals Phil. There are four last name, one for each suit. In this case, spades equals Taylor. So when you tell her to call your buddy Phil Taylor, you are really giving the code for the card she selected. She calls the number you give her, and asks for Phil Taylor. Your buddy looks up his chart ad instantly knows she took the nine of spades!

Obviously you cannot repeat the trick for the same crowd!

	CLUBS	HEARTS	SPADES	DIAMONDS
	ANDERSON	HENRY	TAYLOR	DAVIS
ACE	LARRY	LARRY	LARRY	LARRY
2	RAY	RAY	RAY	RAY
3	DON	DON	DON	DON
4	JERRY	JERRY	JERRY	JERRY
5	ADAM	ADAM	ADAM	ADAM
6	TODD	TODD	TODD	TODD
7	ARON	ARON	ARON	ARON
8	MIKE	MIKE	MIKE	MIKE
9	PHIL	PHIL	PHIL	PHIL
10	JOHN	JOHN	JOHN	JOHN
J	NICK	NICK	NICK	NICK
Q	RICK	RICK	RICK	RICK
K	ED	ED	ED	ED

Rules For Performing Magic

Magic is truly a special art form experts ay it is the oldest of the performing arts. It is alhobby that your friends will enjoy (they may not all be fascinated with your stamp collection but they all love to be fooled)

Every magician know three great truths: You won't believe them even though I am telling yu will have to learn the hard way. And these three are:

1.) NEVER tell them how it is done. Truth is, most magic secrets are simple (it took some magic creator a lot of time to creae the secret, but the secret itself is usually quite simple). If you tll them how it is done. they will think less of you.

2.) NEVER S tell them what you are going to do before you do it. This is very important. One of your greatest weapons is surprise. If they don't know what is coming they won’t know what to look for, and once the trick is over they cannot reconstruct the steps you took.

3.) NEVER repeat a trick. This is the same as telling them what you have done, because if you repeat a trick they know what is coming.

FOLLOW these rules and your chances of success will be improved 1000%. As you can imagine, appearing on network television is a great challenge because viewers have DVR or VCRs - they can record the program and watch it again, so magic on TV must be VCR-proof! Should mention one last thing: practice, practice and practice. Every beginner makes the same mistake. They learn a trick and go out and try to do it without practicing it. The simple secret does not mean it is simple to do. It takes work. But every great magician in history practiced for one reason: he or she loved to practice magic.