Consecutive number trick–

By well-wisher

Sun, 26 Apr 2015
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Ask a person to think of a number from 1 to 10, add on the number directly after it and add on the number directly after that then ask them to tell you the result of their addition and you can easily tell what the three numbers were because, as you can see, all the results of adding three consecutive numbers are different.

123 (6)

 234 (9)

 345 (12)

456 (15)

567 (18)

678 (21)

789 (24)

8910 (27)

 

Why only consecutive numbers?  Because you cannot do this trick with just any three numbers. Say for example the participant tells you the number  12, then their three numbers could be 6, 4 and 2 or 7, 3 and 2 or some other combination of numbers that add up to 12.

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Submitted by loquaciousicity on

If you take the sum of any 3 consecutive numbers, then divide the result by 3, then subtract 1, you will find your original starting number.

Two examples

1st example: 8,9,10 sums to 27; divide by 3 to get 9; subtract 1 to get 8, the original startin number.

 2nd example: 671, 672, 673 sums to 2016; divide by 3 to get 672; subtract 1 to get 671, the original number

 

Submitted by well-wisher on

Yeah, I know, Terry but I'm really only interested in tricks that involve you telling a participant exactly what numbers they were thinking of. Do you know any tricks like that? Thats what I'm looking for and no Mentalist "forces" either like multiplying things by 9. Any tricks where you can tell a participant, "You were thinking of this number" would be great.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn