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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. Step 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. Step 2

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

  3. Step 3

    Ask for a volunteer from your audience.

  4. Step 4

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

  5. Step 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. Step 6

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

  7. Step 7

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

  8. Step 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. Step 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.

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jfargo said

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

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