and the answer is always 5 ... wowee errm, that's magic (is it?)
number is xdouble it = 2xadd 10 = 2x + 10halve it ... divide by 2 = (2x + 10) /2 = x + 5deduct x = x + 5 - 5 = 5and the answer is always 5 ... wowee errm, that's magic (is it?)
I saw a good numbers trick at a magicians show in London a couple of weeks ago.
He started off by saying he needed 4 random people from the audience of 1386 that day, more than once he mentioned that there was 1386 in the audience, a ball was thrown into the audience to pick the first one and then thrown again from there to the next until he had his 4, he then asked one of the 4 to come on stage to help with the trick.
The person brought onto the stage had to do all the adding etc on a phone calculator. He then asked each of the 3 in the audience to think of a 3 digit number, before he was told any of the numbers he told the one person to add 10 to his number, another to subtract 2 from theirs and the 3rd to switch the first and last digits around. numbers where then called out one at a time and the person on stage multiplied each number as instructed. The magician who was standing well away from person with the calculator and could not possibly see any figures on the calculator said he now wanted the helper to add in a number of the magicians choosing, this was done.
The magician then askes the helper to press equals to get a final total which he wrote on a board, the final total was 13,862,116,250 or to put it another way, this trick had just been performed in front of 1386 people on the 2nd January 2016 at 2.50pm
I saw a good numbers trick at a magicians show in London a couple of weeks ago.He started off by saying he needed 4 random people from the audience of 1386 that day, more than once he mentioned that there was 1386 in the audience, a ball was thrown i