Easy Trick: The Film Prediction

With Oscar season upon us, everyone is trying to predict the awards: Best Picture (I'm hoping for "Little Miss Sunshine"), Best Actor and so on. Here's a mentalism effect that allows you to successfully predict a randomly named and chosen film. And you won't have to thank the Academy for your success.

You ask several people, say six individuals, to each name a movie. As each spectator names a movie, you write the title on a slip of paper, fold the paper and throw it into a bowl. After writing down the titles, you write the name of one of the films on a final slip and set the prediction in plain view or have a spectator hold it.

Another spectator is asked to reach into the bowl and randomly pulls out a movie title, which is read aloud. When your prediction is opened and read, it turns out to be the very same film.

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