In the name of …
Many of the outstanding and bewildering tricks you have seen performed by professional magicians are based on dexterity, skill and many years of practice.
By: Moh.Na
Vah.Na
Semi-Final
The Secret of “Aref Ghafouri” Master Prediction has been revealed
Yari-Final
Aref Ghafouri’nin Sırrı Çözüldü
نیمه نهایی
ترفندهای عارف غفوری در پیش بینی بزرگ
After the big show of “Aref Gafouri” young Iranian magic performer on “Show TV” channel, I saw on some blogs and websites pertinent to Turkey, Iran, some Arab countries and some Turkish-spoken countries discussing about this young magician. Some were eager to know how he could able to know to read people’s mind or maybe he forces his idea into them. After all, I decided to reveal the trick. I appreciate his dexterity, skill of using mystifying words and quivering of his hands, but he is far away from the perfection of a skillful magician.
Let’s start revealing…
The stage design is a very important factor. Particularly in this performance. First of all, you need 4000$. You need to purchase a box, a table, a board and a marker. These stuffs are called “Master Prediction System” which you can find it at http://www.wellingtonent.com/. The system has been devised by “D*ck Zimmerman” for the first time and it ‘s been improved several times by famous magicians. For the first time I’ve seen it in the Criss Angel’s “Race Winner Prediction” performance. It looks like following figure:
He ask the jury to utter any word or number, which identify fly information such as where, seat ID and take-off time. He claims that he’s already anticipated their information and put them in a box. But he has not. The box is empty. After writing the information on the board, he needs some time to make his “prediction(!)” possible. So he passes a newspaper to one of the jury and asks her to toss it randomly. Then one of the spectators catches and tears it apart and gives one of pieces to the other spectator. The spectator (girl) is asked to come on the stage. “Aref” by this is trying to say that all of his acts is according to stochasticity. But stochasticity will not change the consequence. At the stage he asks the girl to close her eyes and choose one of tiny pieces of paper, then he immediately gets the tiny piece from her hands and changes it from own one. At this moment, although quivering of his hands is very nice, this act nicely gives the trick away. This technique is called “HAND-BY-HAND-TO-HAND-BY-HAND”. Another secret is behind choosing the paper. The tiny piece has been chosen carefully by magician, i.e. its words have been curiously chosen to face the girl with a single word that is possible: “KADER” which means destiny. You can see this technique is shown in the following picture:
So, we can easily see that randomness is irrelevant. Now, you can understand the DVD prediction. At this interval “Master Prediction System” does what it should do. Of course he has a backstage assistant. Aref ‘s assistant writes the fly information on a long sheet which can be placed into a tube in the box. The girl must not see the surface of the table. He didn’t allow the girl to see inside the box, because the box itself contains several tricks. He put the newspaper on the table and in time of placing box on the table, he removes it. But, how does this mechanism work?
Just think about the connection between the box, the tube-like paper, the table parts, and the newspaper on the table, the board, the marker, the rope and where the end of rope and the table are…
You’ll find out…Next…
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