Karl Fulves 
Self-Working Number Magic 
101 Foolproof Tricks

Numbers pervade nearly every aspect of our daily lives: telephone numbers, zip codes, Social Security numbers, driver’s license and credit-card numbers. We are beleaguered by numbers: no wonder we’re fascinated, intrigued, even a bit bewildered by them; no wonder tricks involving numbers are perennial favorites.

With
Self-Working Number Magic you can perform show-stopping tricks, stunts and routines that are sure to delight audiences because they capitalize on our natural fascination for numbers. Karl Fulves, well-known writer in the field of magic presents 101 baffling tricks that are so easy to do they practically work by themselves. While all the tricks involve basic mathematical principles, the mathematics is not discussed here; rather, emphasis is on performing and perfecting the tricks. They can be learned quickly and put into operation immediately, and best of all, they really dazzle an audience.

Among the seemingly impossible tricks and stunts in this book: guessing a spectator’s age or how long a married couple have known each other; predicting the sum of a group of numbers and using your brain like a lightning calculator; and instantly memorizing long lists of numbers or things. This selection also includes tricks involving cards, calendars, magic squares, and betting games. The author even suggests stage patter to use while performing.

With this book and a modicum of practice, anyone can perform an assortment of number tricks that will astound and delight an audience. Whatever your age or math skills, you’ll soon be baffling friends and relatives with over 100 fascinating, foolproof tricks.

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AMAZING NUMBER MAGIC

1 The Nine Mystery

2 Computer Dating

3 Resistible Rithmetic

4 Step Right Up

5 Dollar-Bill Poker

6 Familiar Spirit

7 A 5¢ Computer

8 Mark of the Beast

9 Think of a Number

10 Lightning Strikes Thrice

11 Blue Lightning

DEVILISH DATES

12 Guess Your Age?

13 Fourth-Dimensional Dates

14 Mysterious Math

15 Astrology Cards

16 Neale’s Number

17 Stunumbers

LIGHTNING CALCULATORS

18 Linear A

19 Slippery Sevens

20 Alberti’s Game

21 The Fifth Power

22 Playing the Market

23 Tricky Total

24 Mathematically Inclined

25 Fake Arithmetic

26 Ultraffinity

27 Dollars and Dice

MAGIC WITH NUMBERS

28 Mental Amazement

29 Locked-Room Mystery

30 The Two Guns

31 Prime Choice

32 Lucky 13

33 Future Thought

34 The Decoder Card Trick

MAGIC SQUARES

35 The Marrakech Game

36 The Broken Square

37 Swindle Square

38 Anti-Magic Square

39 Curious Magic

40 Add and Subtract

41 The Paradox

42 The Automatic Magic Square

THE CLASSICS

43 The Root of the Problem

44 Haunted Hotel

45 Arithmetrick

46 Contrary Clock

47 Mountain Time

48 Significant Digits

49 Unwritten Rule

50 Unequals

51 What’s Next?

52 Cryptarithms

53 Eve Did Talk

54 Orderly Transition

55 Naming Numbers

56 Zebra Algebra

57 Fidget Digits

58 Strange Symbols

59 Catch Questions

60 Scrambled States

61 Puzzle Parts

62 Six Quik

63 Who Pays?

64 The Monkey and the Coconuts

‘Answers to ‘The Classics’

CALENDAR CONJURING

65 What a Week!

66 Best Daze

67 Four of a Mind

68 Day Five

69 The Square Week

70 Cross Out

71 Second Saturday

72 Date Sense

73 Crazy Calendar

GAMES AND BETS

74 Mexican Bingo

75 A Dollar You Can’t

76 A Dollar I Can

77 The Fortune 100

78 Bamboozled

79 Rapid Boxscores

80 Portable Poker

81 The Game of 21

82 Telefooled

83 License-Plate Showdown

84 Auto Suggestion

GIANT MEMORY

85 The Master Memory System

86 Instant Memory

87 Double Master

88 Serial Secret

89 Mind Erasing

90 Pseudo Memory

91 Memorease

92 The Ultra Mind

93 Digit Memory

MORE NUMBER MAGIC

94 Sum Fantastic

95 Psychic Card Reading

96 Devil’s Dial

97 What’s My Line?

98 Transcendental Book Test

PREDICTING THE FUTURE

99 Super Prophet

100 Astro Thought

101 The Million-Dollar Prediction

Sobre el autor

Karl Fulves is one of the most respected authorities in the field of magic. For over 40 years, he has written hundreds of books on the subject and taught the art of illusion to thousands of people of all ages. This legendary figure also edited and published such magazines as
Epilogue and
The Pallbearers Review.