A Capital Prediction

Effect: Acapital city is chosen. Inside an envelope which has been on full view is a paper naming the city selected.
Secret: Write a capital city on a piece of paper and seal it in an envelope.
Capital cities are called and you write them down on slips of paper which are folded and dropped into a box.
In fact you write the same name on every slip – the name of the city in the sealed enveloped.
Someone picks a slip and calls out the chosen city. The envelope is opened to show you knew which city would be chosen.

Marvellous Memory

Effect: You appear to memorise the order of a pack of cards.
Secret: Cut a small hole in the bottom right corner of your card case.
Ask someone to shuffle the cards and hand them back to you. Look through the cards quickly, then place
them in the case. Hold the case in front of you and you will see the index of the first card through the hole.
Name this card and pull it from the case. Do the same with a few more until you think you have proved that
you really did memorise the order of the cards.

Sweet And Sour

Effect: You tell the difference between sweet and sour by means of an amazing mental ability.
Secret: On a sheet of card write the words "SWEET" and "SOUR" and tear the card into nine pieces as shown.The pieces are dropped into a bag and mixed up. When you reach in and take a card, you know immediately whether the word on it is "SWEET" or "SOUR". This is possible from the way the card is torn. The "SOUR" pieces have only one straight edge. The "SWEET" pieces have two straight edges, with one exception which has no straight edges whatsoever.

Sweet And Sour

Effect: You tell the difference between sweet and sour by means of an amazing mental ability.
Secret: On a sheet of card write the words "SWEET" and "SOUR" and tear the card into nine pieces as shown.The pieces are dropped into a bag and mixed up. When you reach in and take a card, you know immediately whether the word on it is "SWEET" or "SOUR". This is possible from the way the card is torn. The "SOUR" pieces have only one straight edge. The "SWEET" pieces have two straight edges, with one exception which has no straight edges whatsoever.

Dictionary Deception

Effect: You read someone's mind.
Secret: On the top right corner of each right hand page of the middle third of a dictionary write the word
printed at the top of the left page. Hold the spine of the book in your left hand and ruffle the pages with the
right. Ask someone to stop you anywhere. Make certain he stops you somewhere in the central section.
Open the book wide and ask him to remember the word at the top of the left hand page. You look at the word
you wrote on the opposite page then pretend to read the spectator's mind.