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This is a great up close magic trick that will quickly easily convince anybody that you have powerful psychic powers. It works great on both strangers as well as close friends, and you can do this at parties, bars or even people off the street if you are bold enough. The greatest part about this trick is that it is completely self working, meaning that you don't have to do any sleight of hand or anything. This works of sheer mathematical probability, so even a five year old could do this trick.

Here's how the deception appears to your soon so be fascinated audience. You tell them that you have just discovered some powerful skills of psychic projection. You can place thoughts clandestinely in their mind. Of course, they don't believe you, and they ask for a demonstration, to which you fortuitously oblige.

You pull out a ordinary deck of cards, and open up the cards so that only you can see the cards. You spend a significant amount of psychic power looking at the cards, and looking at your companion. Then you put the cards back into a normal stack, and tell the person to pick any two cards, without naming the suit. Like ace, and queen, or ten and three, for example.

Once they pick out their two cards, you search through the deck, and show them that the two cards they chose are right next to each other. They will be bewildered, and likely ask you to do this trick again. You go through the motions of looking at the cards, and projecting the numbers into their heads. Once again they choose two cards, and once again you show them their two cards are right next to each other in the deck.

The reason this always works is due to pure mathematical probability. Since they aren't naming the suit of the card, and only the number, there is about a ninety percent likelihood that any two cards they pick will be next to each other, since when they choose two cards, their in fact choosing eight (two cards of four suits each). And just utter mathematics, the likelihood of any two of any eight cards in a deck being next to each other is about ninety percent.

Of course, the more you chat this trick up, the better. The more you imagine to project thoughts into their mind, and go through the motions of doing laborious psychic projection the better. If you want you can make a kindly wager with them that you can accurately "project" the cards into to their head before the trick. Have fun with this.