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Ooh, a good one. Here's what they'll see.
Somebody names any month of the year. You look at your knuckles for a second and tell them how many days it has. You never get it wrong, even for February.
Works by itself, or one simple move. It works the first try.
Nothing at all. Just your hands.
Yes, and those are the handiest tricks you can own, because you always have them with you. Number tricks need nothing but your voice, and some illusions need only your hands.
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Somebody names any month of the year. You look at your knuckles for a second and tell them how many days it has. You never get it wrong, even for February. It's a level 1 apprentice trick for ages 6 to 10 (grades 1st–4th), takes 5 minutes to learn, and needs nothing but your hands. Flick, the shop's rabbit, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow it alone.
Make two fists and name the months along your knuckles and the dips between them. A month on a knuckle has 31 days, a month in a dip has 30, and February, in the first dip, has 28 or 29.
Nothing at all: this one is done with your hands.
“My knuckles are a calendar. I had them made specially. Name any month, any month at all, and they'll tell me how long it is.”
If you lose your place, start again from January and tap faster. Say "the calendar needs warming up".
The months with 31 days are January, March, May, July, August, October and December. On two fists in a row they fall exactly on the knuckles, because a month on a knuckle and a month in a dip take turns, with July and August both on knuckles where the fists meet.
🔮 Prediction. You knew all along, or you read their mind. Almost every trick ever invented is one of eight kinds, and knowing which one you're watching is how magicians work out how a new trick is done.
The skill it teaches: Patter: what you say. A trick is a story, not a thing that happens. Perform it and it counts towards the Mind Reader badge.
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