TELLING TIME.
Ask yonr friend to think of a certain hour, which you will gness. All he has to do is to add the number of times you point, to the hour he has chosen, and to tell you when the total is twenty. You then point at seven different numbers, asking him after each if total is yet twenty. But the eighth time you must point to twelve o'clock, the ninth to eleven, and so on round the clock backwards.
When your friend says that the total is twenty, you tell him that the number at which you are pointing is his chosen one, which it is.
This trick is very mystifying to many people.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21224, 2 July 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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116TELLING TIME. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21224, 2 July 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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