Working on a New Trick...
Posted: Aug 10th, '17, 12:15
"A Mental Magic Square"...ever hear of it? I guess it's a classic; I recently dug out my old magic books; I have like six or so. The one I'm starting with is called "Classic Magic Tricks" so yeah...probably a classic. The basic effect is that the magician asks an audience member between three and ten then asks another audience member to pick a number between zero and ten. Let's say the first chick picks the number four, and the second dude picks number 7; the magician then creates a magic square that equals 47 in eighteen different ways, using his mental processes alone. In the days of old, mathematicians would spend days or even weeks trying to create a specific Magic Square. Nowadays, computers can make magic squares in a mere matter of moments. And now....so can I.
I've finally mastered the mathematical formula to accomplish it, but I still have a long ways to go before I've perfected the actual act altogether. I haven't lost my proverbial training wheels yet; without going into too much detail, there's a bunch of math that I have to do and currently I have to do it on a piece of scratch paper; hardly a dramatic effect, but I'm sure after creating dozens and dozens of more magic squares, I'll become confident enough in my understanding of it to start doing away with the scratch paper, and begin doing the calculations all in my head while simultaneously filling in the magic square on the large blackboard that I would use for a stage presentation, as opposed to my ghetto little note pad and office pen haha. I'll see if I can post a video once I'm able to pull it all off effortlessly and flawlessly, but then comes the next hard part; the presentation of it all; the showmanship; it's not enough for me to just know how to do a trick; I want to be able to do this trick better than anyone else can, otherwise my chances of making it as successful professional magician as a career is approximately five percent probable; not very uplifting stats unfortunately; pretty tough out there as the saying goes.