THE ILLUSION

 

First, I will tell you an illusion that attracts attention and will amaze people around you. First, pass the 6 tables you see below onto a piece of paper or cardboard. Then tell a friend to keep a number between 1 and 63. By showing the following cards one by one ask which cards they have. When he shows the last card, immediately know the number he is holding.

The secret is below…..

                

  

                 

The secret is: The number that is kept, the total of the first numbers (upper left corner) of the cards, if any,is the number that is kept. E.g:

Let the number held be 38. Which cards do you have? Turquoise, green and dark blue ones. Well these cards

What are the first numbers?:

 

Turquoise: 2

Green: 4

Dark Blue: 32

 

sums: 2 + 4 + 32 = 38

 

You can add a little more mystery to your number:

The first numbers are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, as you notice. (The power of 2, or each number is two of the previous  solid). As you know this, as long as you do not confuse the order of the cards, you can keep looking at the cards.you can know the number. (This is the "big secret" that some of my friends insist on learning :)))

 

This is actually not magic, it's all about mathematics. You can get a positive natural number you want with the sums of 1,2,4,8,16,32,64 ......  numbers.   

Zeynep Nur / Savaş UYGUN / Aksu 15 Temmuz Şehitler Anatolian High Scholl / Giresun / Turkey