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Easy Magic Tricks: The Impossible Prediction

By Wayne Kawamoto, About.com

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In this easy magic trick, you lay an envelope down onto the table and explain that there is a prediction written inside. You bring out a deck of cards, show the cards to be different and ask a spectator to name a number. Based on the freely named number, a card is selected. When the letter inside the envelope is opened and read, it states the exact card that was chosen.

Materials: A deck of cards, an envelope and a piece of paper.

With a new found skill that we teach and recently added to site, here’s a variation on the original "Killer Prediction."

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