FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 28 December 1911, Page 2670

FAMILY FUN

A Mind-Reading Trick.By means of the table of letters given below it is possible to do some clever mind-reading, to the bewilderment of the person'read.' Suppose, for instance, you do not know the-full name of a person. Get him to inform you in which of the upright columns, or column, the first letter of his name appears. If it is found in only one column, it is the top letter; if it A B D II P is fdund in more than one column, it C C E I Q is found by adding the alphabetical E F F J R numbers of the top letters of these G G G K S columns, and the sum will be the I J L L T number of the letter sought. By KKMMU taking one letter at a time in this M N N N V way the whole name, or any word, O O O O W can be ascertained. Q R T X X For example, take the name Jane. S S U Y Y J is found in the two columns begin- U V V Z Z ning with B and H, which are the W W W second and eighth letters of the Y Z alphabet; their sum is 10, and the tenth letter of the alphabet is J, the one sought. The next letter, A, appears in only one column, where it stands at the top. N. is seen. in.the columns headed with B, D, and H, the second, fourth, and eighth letters of the alphabet, and their numbers added give fourteen, or N, and so on. By memorizing the respective numbers of the letters of the alphabet, the trick can be worked very quickly, and will excite no little curiosity.