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    Coin Mind Reading

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    This magic trick uses math to determine the number of coins a friend has hidden in their hand without looking. The magician has the friend start with 20 coins on the table and remove a random number based on their picked number between 1-10. They then add the digits of the remaining coins on the table and remove that many more coins, forcing there to always be 9 coins left on the table. The magician then counts the coins left on the table and subtracts that from 9 to reveal how many coins the friend has hidden in their hand.

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    Coin Mind Reading

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    Luis Blanco
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    This magic trick uses math to determine the number of coins a friend has hidden in their hand without looking. The magician has the friend start with 20 coins on the table and remove a random number based on their picked number between 1-10. They then add the digits of the remaining coins on the table and remove that many more coins, forcing there to always be 9 coins left on the table. The magician then counts the coins left on the table and subtracts that from 9 to reveal how many coins the friend has hidden in their hand.

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    This magic trick uses math to determine the number of coins a friend has hidden in their hand without looking. The magician has the friend start with 20 coins on the table and remove a random number based on their picked number between 1-10. They then add the digits of the remaining coins on the table and remove that many more coins, forcing there to always be 9 coins left on the table. The magician then counts the coins left on the table and subtracts that from 9 to reveal how many coins the friend has hidden in their hand.

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    Coin Mind Reading

    Uploaded by

    Luis Blanco
    This magic trick uses math to determine the number of coins a friend has hidden in their hand without looking. The magician has the friend start with 20 coins on the table and remove a random number based on their picked number between 1-10. They then add the digits of the remaining coins on the table and remove that many more coins, forcing there to always be 9 coins left on the table. The magician then counts the coins left on the table and subtracts that from 9 to reveal how many coins the friend has hidden in their hand.

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    TWENTY COIN MINDREADING

    The props: Twenty coins


    The magic: Withoutlooking, you can teU a friend exactly how many
    coins they have hidden in their hand.
    1. Spread out 20 coins-on the table and turn your back.
    2. Tell a friend, "I want you to pick a number--h'()m one to ten,
    but don't tell me what it is."
    -~
    :

    3. Now tell your friend":'fa1<-e-ihat number of the coins and put them aside,
    wherJ!LwoolClriYsee them if 1turned around."

    4. Tell your friend, "Quietly count the coins left on the table,
    but don't tell me how many there are."
    5. Tell your friend, "Add the digits in that number. For example, ifthere are 15 coins
    left, add 1+5 to get 6. Then remove that many coins to hide with the others."

    6. Tell your friend, "Now, take some of the coins left on the table-as many or as few
    as you like-and hide them in your fist."
    7. Turn around and-without being obvious about it-secretly count the coins left on
    the table. Subtract the number you see from 9.
    8. Tell your friend that they have that number of coins in their fist (9 minus the
    number on the table).

    9. Make sure all the coins go back where they belong!

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    Lookon the next page to find out why this trick works!


    THE SCIENCE BEHIND tHE MAGIC '
    How does the numberof-colns on the table
    tell you hewrnany they have in their hand?
    This "mlndreading'ttrick.ls really a hidden math trick.
    You start with twentycelns; and have your friend take away enough coins
    '
    to leave 10 to 19 coins on 'the table..

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    _ .

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    ---.

    "-'

    ~~~

    But the numbers from 10to 19all have a hi~oattern in common, haying to do
    with thertureber 9:~~r eq.(:h of those,humb,\!rs, -addmgtf:te digits together gives you
    -,
    the number you need to add,toB to get it.
    '""',

    Theotiginal number minus the sum


    .gives you 9 every time

    Take
    a number
    10
    11
    12
    13
    14
    15
    16
    17
    18
    19

    10,,1=9
    112=9
    123=9
    13-4=9
    14"5-9
    15..6-=9
    16-7=9
    178-9
    189=9
    1910=9

    1+0=1
    1+1~2

    1t:l=:a. '
    1+3::4
    1+4~5

    1+5=6
    1+6==7.
    1+7=8
    1+8-=9
    1+9~10

    What does this have to do with the coin mindreading? Using this trick of 9, you're
    forcing your friend to have 9 coins left on the table before they hide some in their
    hand.
    ' r~

    -;.~_.

    For example, let's say your friend picked the number5 to start. They then took 5 coins
    away, leaving 15~ YQ~had t~emadd'1+5=6,and then had them take away 6 more
    coins-leaving f}O~ thf!tiilole, fftney'd had12 coins leftover, you'd have had them
    take 1+2=-3 ,oinsaway~ leaving9 again. }(our friend might think they have control,
    but you aren'neavi:ngth~m ~ich,Oi. ce. :Since you know they had 9 coins before they
    moved some.inhHh~iTtianddheY'restLJck with 9 minus the numberyou can see on
    the table. "
    ..
    ,~

    Real magicians leatn their tricksby heart,


    so practice thi$trickto i'mprove yourperformance.

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