How to Guess a Color

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Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Colored Crayons
• Crayons
• 6 Index Cards
• Colored Pencils
• Crayons

1. Take six index cards and write the name of a different color on each one. Use the colors red, cyan, green, yellow, magenta and lavender (note that the colors have 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 letters respectively).

2. Arrange the 6 cards face-up randomly on a table.

3. Ask for a volunteer from your audience.

4. Ask the volunteer to choose a color but not to point to it or say it out loud.

5. Ask the volunteer to spell the color in his or her head as you point randomly to the cards. Each time you point to a card, the volunteer should think of the next letter in the color.

6. Ask the volunteer to say "stop" when he or she finishes spelling the color.

7. The first 2 cards you point to can be any color.

8. Point to red for the third letter, blue for the fourth letter, green for the fifth letter and so on until the volunteer finishes spelling.

9. When the volunteer says "stop," you'll be pointing to his or her color.

Tips & Warnings

• One of the most important rules of magic is to never reveal how a trick is performed. If you do, your audience will be disappointed, and everyone you know will start doing your trick.

[jfargo]

on 8/1/2009 It's a cute trick. Five stars from this easily-amused audience member. :)