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Here's a great mentalism effect and I'm
just going to actually perform this for you
in real time. Just remember that the
spectator can do most of the handling
and I will explain how this works. So as
you notice, I have these five slip slips
of paper here and I'm going to number
the pages one, two, three, four, and five.
Hopefully you can see that. Let's gather
these up.
Definitely right there we have them. We're
going to throw them into a cup and now you
have the pieces in the cup. The cup 
is now given to the spectator. The spectator is
going to shake them around and toss them
onto the table. Now this is an
elimination effect so you want to be
random. Here you'll notice I have these
three here and they came up blank. So we're
going to eliminate them and then we'll put
the pieces back into the cup
and shake it again.
The spectator does this and they dump themout and
we still have two numbers. We're going to
continue this.
Oh, there we go,
Four blanks. This is a random process - throwing these
pieces into a cup and you can see the
cup ius empty and
you can see that the number was "four."
You'll notice that I had this card out here 
the entire time and I had a prediction
written on there, which was of course the
number "four." Alright, I'll explain how
this works. It's an astounding
mentalism effect.
It's an impossible prediction you can
perform and the fun thing about this is
I can actually perform the trick for you
right now
with all of its randomizing random
elements. And you'll see how this works. I
think you'll notice that I have five little
sheets of paper here. I'm going to number
them one, two, three, four, and five.
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I'm going to take all of these numbers, toss
them into the cup right here. The spectator
shakes them around. The 
spectator randomizes things and
tosses them onto the table. Now what
we're going to do is eliminate all of
the ones that come up blank. It turns out
that these four came out came up blank,
upside down. And the one that remained is
the number "four." I have here a prediction.
Would it be amazing if I have the number
"four" here? And of course, this is magic.
Let me teach you how to do this.
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All you need for this trick are five
little pieces of paper and make them
identical. They can be bigger but I just
chose one-inch squares here. You need a
prediction. You could put this in an
envelope or just write it on something like a
napkin. I happen to be using a card here. And 
you write a number on it. I'm using the
number "four." You can use any number
between "one" and "five" once you know the
secret. And you need a cup. Just an
ordinary cup but probably opaque is best. But
you probably could do this with a
drinking glass that's clear. And once you
have these elements, you're ready to
perform a miracle. 
Now before anybody sees anything, here's
the secret. I'm going to use the number "four."
Obviously, that's why that
I've already written it on the card. So I
can't change the number "four." So it has
to come up number "four." So how in the
world when the spectator shakes this up
and dumps them out and you eliminate the
ones that have turned upside down, how do
you always get the number four. Here's
how. Before anybody's there, this is the
secret. You take your pen or marker and write
the number "four" on the back of one of
the tiny pieces and turn it over.
Now that's the secret part. You don't do
this in front of spectators. You're ready
to perform the trick.
Spectators are with you right now and
you say "I have these five slips of paper
and then number them one, two, three,
four, and five. Of course, spectators don't
know is this is a double sheet. 
You collect all the
piece and throw them into the cup. The spectator
shakes them up, this is the randomizing
factor. Spectator tosses them onto the
table and unfortunately it came up just
the way it did in the performance all
the other ones came up blank.
Normally when you do this trick,
you're going to toss it out there, here, this
is more likely. See, I have three numbers
that came up face-up and two of them came up
blank. That would be the two and the five.
They go away. You put these back into the
cup. They toss them around and that time
you remove the other two but you're
always going to come up with "four" because
this is double-sided. And of course, you
can reveal your predicted number. 
This is a great trick that you can
perform that's very easy and will baffle
spectators. Well I hope you have fun
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