Magic trick 12 series#

But we might as well call entertainers in that sphere magicians, since fictional characters such as Harry Potter who can do 'real magic' usually prefer to be called wizards. People like David Copperfield or the late Paul Daniels do not do 'real magic', no, because 'real magic' is confined to fantasy fiction. What Paul Daniels et al do are definitely tricks, but not magic. That sort of thing could have been saved for P for Paranormal. I'm just a bit dismayed at how much of the 'Occult' episode was taken up with mentalism. I'm devoted to the occult, and I love mentalism. (Whether they remember it is a different question.) Sandi's routine helped to obscure the maths slightly, since she didn't predict the number itself, but a word based on it - the final impression on the audience was about two words matching, not about the number itself.

The 1089 quirk is found in just about every 'mathematical fun' book ever, so I'll bet a large proportion of the QI audience has encountered it at some point.

A basic example is a stage illusionist having his lovely assistant hidden in a piece of equipment that's been shaped and decorated to look too small to conceal a person. A lot of magic tricks centre around little-known physical properties of objects, or using objects with physical properties that can be obscured. A surprising amount of mentalism and card tricks are based on mathematical principles. I thought the mind reading trick at the start was pretty obvious too.ĭid the panel really not understand how that was done, or were they just playing along for the sake of making good TV?Įvery magic and mentalism trick is based on something the audience is unaware of. They use entirely understood, basic physics to do stuff, but hide what they are doing in such a way as to make people think they are doing something else. Is electricity magic to someone who's never experienced it? Is anything a trick if it just involves doing something that the subject doesn't understand? This is why the QI people had to make sure, on the recording, that all three members of the audience gave a different single digit. The only exception is if the first and last digits of the original three-digit number are the same then you'll only get 0. If you add each number to its reversed version you will always get 1089. Example: 843 reverse the digits and subtract, and you get 99×(8−3) = 495. 99 times the difference between the first and last digits (the middle digit is unimportant). When you take a three digit number, reverse its digits and subtract the two numbers, the result is always divisible by 99. Secondly, isn't it annoying when you know how a trick is done.

Magic trick 12 series#

Finish the trick by counting out the stacked cards until your reach the eleventh one in the deck, then reveal it to the audience and announce that you’ve found the card.View previous topic | View next topic Series O, Episode 12: The Occultįirstly, does anyone know what Russell's score was? Stack the cards once more, with the third column in the middle. The third time you lay out the columns, the audience member’s card will be fourth one down in the third column. Push the columns back into piles, then stack the pile containing their card between the other 2 piles. Once the cards are shuffled, lay them out in 3 columns of 7 cards each, and instruct the audience member to point to the column their card is in. You can also ask the audience member to shuffle them for you. After they’ve done that, have them return the card to your hand, then shuffle the cards. Ask them to remember what the card is and show it to the audience, but not to you. Next, fan out the cards face-down and ask someone to pick any card. Start by pulling any 21 cards out of a standard 52-card deck. A 21-card trick is a classic magic trick in which you have an audience member pick a card, then move it to the eleventh position in the deck so you can find and reveal it.