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From: sue5804
Date: Wed Mar 5, 2003 10:23am
Subject: Re: No emoticon for what I am feeling...
Thank you very much for my "reward", Caroline! :o)
I'm so new here and yet you went to all that trouble typing out that
trick. You must be almost as lovely a person as moi! ;-) hehehe
--- In a previous message designforlife wrote:
> --- In a previous message sue5804 wrote:
> > For what it's worth, designforlife, I empathise with your
feelings
> on
> > this issue 100%.
> >
>
> My name's Caroline, and it's worth a lot to me, actually, so thank
> you. For this demonstration of solidarity I shall reward you with a
> trick from the Paul Daniels Magic Annual (1983). First, catch your
> cards.
>
> *revelation of method*
>
> The trick is called OAR (variations have different names). You will
> need an accomplice. Send your accomplice out of the room (you need
to
> prearrange some things, so read on). Ask a random idiot to choose
> from one of three cards that you have laid out, face up (dealt).
Note
> which card of the three your idiot has chosen. If it is the one on
> the left, tell your accomplice "OK, you can come back in now." If
it
> is the one in the middle, tell your accomplice "Alright, you can
come
> back in now." If it is the one on the right, tell your
> accomplice "Right, you can come back in now". Your accomplice comes
> back in, and, according to effect (psychic, "ordinary psychological
> means", etc.) instantly knows which card was chosen. How? You have
> told him or indeed her that "OK" will signal left, "Alright" will
> signal middle, and "Right" will signal right.
>
> Collapse of stout party. Fame assured, nay, guaranteed.
