🔮 Top 10 mind-reading tricks for kids
Ours, all ten: every trick on this list is from Peabody's Magic Shop, free, with picture steps read aloud by Flick.
Mind reading is the biggest kind of trick in the shop, and the friendliest for a nervous performer: nearly all of it runs on arithmetic that always comes out the same, so there is no secret move to fumble. These are the ten easiest to learn.
They also work for a whole room, because everybody can play along in their own heads. Each has a why-it-works box on its page, and working out the why is a good maths lesson in disguise from about nine.
How it is ranked: Prediction tricks, easiest level first, then quickest to learn. Checked against the shop on .
The 10
- 1. The Answer Is Always 3The Mind Reader's CornerApprentice, 2 minutes to learn, ages 6 to 11; you need nothing but your hands.
- 2. The Crystal Ball PredictionThe Card CabinetApprentice, 3 minutes to learn, ages 5 to 10; you need deck, paper, marker.
- 3. The X-Ray DiceThe Mind Reader's CornerApprentice, 3 minutes to learn, ages 5 to 10; you need dice.
- 4. The Grey Elephant PredictionThe Mind Reader's CornerApprentice, 3 minutes to learn, ages 7 to 12; you need nothing but your hands.
- 5. The Crayon Mind ReaderThe Everyday ShelfApprentice, 5 minutes to learn, ages 5 to 9; you need crayons.
- 6. The Magic Mind ReaderThe Card CabinetApprentice, 5 minutes to learn, ages 5 to 11; you need deck.
- 7. The Countdown CardThe Card CabinetApprentice, 5 minutes to learn, ages 6 to 11; you need deck.
- 8. Three Friends, Three CardsThe Card CabinetApprentice, 5 minutes to learn, ages 7 to 11; you need deck.
- 9. Which Hand?The Coin CounterApprentice, 5 minutes to learn, ages 6 to 11; you need coin.
- 10. The Warm CoinThe Coin CounterApprentice, 5 minutes to learn, ages 6 to 10; you need coin, cup.
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