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Game of the Week: The Psychic and the Magician
This is a two-person game.  You'll also need an audience of at least one person and a deck of cards.  The youngest person is the psychic and the oldest person is the magician.  Select nine cards from the deck. One, and only one, of the cards must be a nine.  This is the "map card."  Arrange the cards in the same formation as the symbols on the nine card: two rows of four cards, with one card alone between the rows.  The solo card between the rows should be the nine card.   The nine card acts as the map of the other cards.  Before your show, practice pointing to a symbol on the nine card, and then identifying its corresponding card in the magic trick formation.  Encourage kids to try 3 dry runs before their first performance.  This will give them time to iron out the delicate communication that must occur between psychic and magician.

When you are ready, with great pomp and circumstance ask the psychic to leave the room.  Ask the audience member to point to a card, then call the psychic back to the room. The magician begins by pointing to the nine card, asking the psychic "is this correct card?"  The magician will be pointing to the center card, the nine.  S/he will point to the position of the selected card on the nine card using the clubs (or hearts, or spades, or whatever) as location markers for the real card.   Now both the magician and the psychic know which is the selected card.  The magician then points to a few other wrong cards, and the psychic announces that those are wrong.  After 2 or 3 hits, the magician points to the correct card and asks, "Is this the correct card?" and the psychic can respond, "YES!"

If the audience volunteer picks the nine card, the magician points to a different card first, thereby informing the psychic that the nine card is the correct card.

Riddle of the Week:
What is as big as an elephant, but weighs nothing at all?
An elephant's shadow.