This easy but amazing trick will teach you how to perform mind reading or mental telepathy with a normal mobile phone. However, be warned, this has a very powerful effect on people!

How It Looks To The Audience

In this amazing trick, the magician tells the audience that he knows a psychic who can read minds over the telephone. To prove it he asks a spectator to select any card he likes from the deck. The magician then calls the psychic on his mobile phone, and without saying a word, hands the phone to the spectator. When the spectator takes the phone, a voice on the other end tells him the card he is thinking of!

How the Trick Is Done

You need an accomplice for this trick but the effect is well worth the effort. You also need a simple code system that will convey the name of your card to your accomplice. It is in fact a clever system that lets your accomplice know the name of the card through the name you give him.

First of all, let us deal with the suits. These are communicated through his first name.

CLUB = CHARLES
HEART = HARRY
SPADE = SAM
DIAMONND = DAVID.

The value of the card is communicated through the surname.

Ace = Anderson
Two = Brown
Three = Connery
Four = Dunlop
Five = Evans
Six = Fox
Seven = Gordon
Eight = Henderson
Nine = Irvine
Ten = Jones
Jack = Kyle
Queen = Livingstone
King = McLeod

The surnames are in alphabetical order and the number of the letter of the alphabet corresponds to the value of the card.

To perform the trick, you ask a spectator to pick any card from the deck. When you see the card, you then make up the name that corresponds to that card, For example, if the card that was picked was the four of clubs, then that would give you the name CHARLES DUNLOP.

You then tell the spectator that you know a psychic called Charles Dunlop, who is such a great mind reader, he can read minds over the telephone. You then key in your friend’s number on your mobile and hand the phone to the spectator. You tell the spectator to ask for Charles Dunlop.

When your accomplice answers the phone he asks the spectator who he is looking for and naturally the spectator says Charles Dunlop. Your accomplice then says he is Charles Dunlop.

As your friend has either memorized the code or has it written down, he is able to quickly tell the spectator that the card he is thinking of is the four of clubs. When your friend has done this, he just terminates the call.

This is a terrific mind reading trick and will absolutely blow the audience away.