To an observer, it looks like this. The magician is blindfolded and
faces a wall while his confederate goes around the audience, asking
people to place on a tray any random items that they happen to be
carrying with them. Coins, eyeglasses, wrist watches, credit
cards--anything at all. Audience members also have the option to select
playing cards from a deck.
The confederate then holds up each item silently. No apparent way
exists for the confederate to communicate with the magician, but
somehow, the magician knows all.
Further details and explanation at
Boing Boing.
Clever. Expand your tables further with responses like: "correct", "spot on", "exactly", "precisely", "you got it", etc.
ReplyDeleteThe number of meanings you can encode is more limited by your memory than by the number of synonyms for "correct" in English.