This is one of the ways that some magicians perform a feat which always gets a great response; the “Giant Memory”. That’s where they get the names of about 100 assorted objects from their audience and have a volunteer write them against the numbers from 1 to 100 on a whiteboard. It is interesting to hear the sort of objects which are named – some audiences have wilder imaginations than most magicians!
Then, while standing where they cannot see what has been written, they ask for anyone to call out either a number from 1 to 100 or any of the listed objects.
They then pretend to concentrate deeply before saying the corresponding object or number and, sometimes, mentioning the object on either side of that number for good measure.
A tip which will be very useful if you decide to do this stunt later on. You don’t have to use 100
items. Get yourself tested with, say, 25 and, so long as you don’t sound over-confident or boastful, your friends will still be impressed.
However many items you decide to use, just get about 5 or 6 called back to you because the
“excitement” will fade pretty quickly after that.
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