Pertama: Pegang 11 kartu lalu mintalah penonton mengocoknya lalu kembalikan kepada Anda.

Minta penonton memilih 1 kartu

(jangan tunjukkan kepada Anda). Lalu mintalah penonton meletakkan kartu tersebut di urutan ke-2 (dari atas).

Kedua: Letakkan kartu satu persatu di atas meja sambil mengeja nama penonton (maksimal nama 11 huruf, kalau terlalu panjang,
cukup nama panggilan saja). Bila masih ada sisa kartu di tangan kiri Anda, taruh semuanya di atas tumpukan tadi.

Ketiga: Sekarang giliran Anda mengeja nama saya HENDRY FJ sambil meletakkan kartu satu persatu di atas meja (8 kartu diletakkan
di atas meja). Sisa kartu di tangan kiri Anda ditumpukkan di atas 8 kartu tadi.

Keempat: Kemudian letakkan satu persatu kartu di atas meja dan katakan ke penonton, bilang STOP di mana saja Anda mau. Setelah
penonton bilang STOP, sisa kartu ditumpuk lagi di atas kartu tadi.

Kelima: Ambil tumpukan kartu tadi, letakkan kartu di belakang punggung Anda. Ambillah kartu ke-2 dari bawah, lalu tunjukkan kartu
tersebut kepada penonton. Itu pasti kartunya!

Catatan:
Saat akan melakukan langkah keempat, posisi kartu penonton ada di urutan nomor 2 dari atas. Jadi saat melakukan langkah keempat
ini, sebaiknya setelah Anda meletakkan 2 kartu di atas meja, barulah Anda mengatakan “Bilang STOP di mana saja Anda mau.” Tapi
kalau pun penonton protes, ingin 1 kartu saja yang diletakkan di meja, tidak masalah. Berarti kartu penonton ada di bagian paling atas.
Yang harus Anda ingat adalah saat akan melakukan langkah keempat, kartu penonton ada di urutan ke-2 dari atas (ini kuncinya).
Pada klimaks (saat akan mengeluarkan kartu penonton) sebaiknya dilakukan di belakang punggung agar rahasia sulap ini tidak mudah
terbongkar. Anda bisa melakukan macam-macam variasi saat mengeluarkan kartu pilihan penonton tadi.

Permainan ini bisa dimainkan pada siapa saja (meski nama tiap orang berbeda jumlah hurufnya dan mereka boleh bilang STOP kapan
saja). Hasilnya tetap sama.

Effect:

Magician lays out 11 cards and asks a volunteer to move several cards over from
the right side to the left side while the magician's back is to the cards so he/she
doesn't see how many.

Then, when the volunteer is done the magician turns back around. He/she
waves his hand over the cards and turns over one of the cards. The number on
the card is the number of cards the volunteer moved.

(or have the magic puppet wave its hand over the card and then whisper to you
to turn it over.)

Supplies:

11 cards from a regular deck of 52. Take 1 joker, an ace and all the numbers up
to 10.

Secret:
Lay out the cards face down in this order: 6 5 4 3 2 A J 10 9
87 (A is Ace and J is Joker).

Then have someone move the cards one at a time from right to left.

Say they moved three cards (the magician wouldn't know it though) the position
of the cards would now be

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 A J 10
Then wave your hand over the cards and silently count 7 cards over from left to
right. Turn the 7th card over. It's the three!!!

It doesn't matter how many cards they move over, this will always work.

Always count 7 cards over (starting with the setup above) and it'll be the number
of cards they moved.

If they decide not to move any at all the card will be a Joker and this tells you
they didn't move any at all.

Magic Toothpick Trick

Effect:

The magician shows a pan full of water with five toothpicks in the shape of a
pentagon.

The magician takes his magic toothpick and dips it in the center of the
pentagon. The five toothpicks fly apart, breaking the pentagon!

Someone from the audience says... oh, that's just what happens when you do
that, it's not magic. The magician arranges the five toothpicks back into a
pentagon and hands the person in the audience the magic toothpick. The person
dips it in the center. Nothing happens. It really was magic!

Supplies:

• a tinfoil pan (a pie plate or leftover Chinese food plate work well)
• water
• 6 flat wooden toothpicks
 • the magic ingredient: liquid dishwashing soap

Before the Audience - Preparation:

Dip one of your toothpicks in liquid dishwashing soap. Set it aside for now.

Make sure your pan is clean. Rinse it well with water. Fill it quite full of water
(but not so full that you're going to spill it).

In Front of the Audience - Preparation:

Arrange the five SOAPLESS toothpicks in the shape of a

pentagon. Make sure the tips of the toothpicks overlap

so your pentagon stays together. This can be a bit of a challenge the first time
you do it, so practice arranging the toothpicks at home a few times first and
consider arranging them while the audience is seating itself.

Now, when the audience is settled, let them look at the pentagon. They may
have to stand to do this or you may want to do the trick on the floor with the
audience around you in a U-shape.

Tell the audience that you've arranged the toothpicks into a special five sided
shape called a pentagon and that you're going to cast a spell on the sixth
toothpick to imbue it with some of your magical force so it will be able to break
apart the pentagon. (big words always impress an audience *grin*)

Take out the sixth toothpick (the one that was dipped in dish soap) and wave
your hand over it while chanting some magical words. Close your eyes and
frown a bit so it looks like you're working on putting your magic into the
toothpick.

Words you could chant: Alaka penta Abraka magic

Now, dip the magical toothpick into the center of the pentagon (Make sure you
dip the soapy end in the water and try to get it as close to the center of the shape
as possible -- the soap shouldn't be visible anymore). The five toothpicks will fly
apart.
If you have a non-believer in the audience, offer to let them try the trick. Arrange
the pentagon in the water again and hand them the magic toothpick. Let them
dip it in the center. It won't work!

If the audience asks you to do the trick a second time, just tell them that it takes
awhile to recharge your magical force. You have to rest before you can put more
of it into a toothpick, otherwise you could lose your magic forever!

Secret:

Throughout history, a lot of 'magic' has really been science disguised with a few
silly words. This is one of those tricks.

All things (including water) is made up of tiny things called molecules). Water
molecules like each other and stick together (that's why when a bit of water falls
on a table or window, it blobs together in a little droplet).

The surface of the water has a layer of clingy molecules on it -- this layer is called
the water's surface tension. The toothpicks were nice and flat so they were
floating on this layer.

Remember that we dipped the sixth toothpick in dish soap? That's the real trick
to this trick. The soap molecules break the surface tension of the water. This
effect spreads out in an ever widening ring (like ripples in the water when you
throw a rock in a lake). The molecules originally holding the toothpicks break
apart. The molecules farther away from where you dipped the toothpick still have
their surface tension (for a little longer) so they pull the toothpick toward
them. Of course, eventually the "ripples" of soap hit those molecules too.
Once the soap is in the water, the surface tension won't come back. That's why
the audience member couldn't recreate the trick. It will only work once and then
you have to clean everything up and use new toothpicks to do the trick a second
time. That's also why you have to be careful that your pan is well rinsed before
you do the trick.

Card Trick 3
Thanks so much to Shelly for sending this in!!

Effect:

The magician gives two volunteers each half a deck of cards and leaves the
room (or turns his back).

Each volunteer choses a card from the OTHER person's deck, memorizes and
shows it to the audience. The volunteers put the cards they chose into their own
deck.

The magician takes each of the decks and spreads them out on the table and
tells the audience what the cards were.

(or have the magic puppet whisper to the magician what the cards were).

Supplies:

~a deck of cards

Secret:

You need to split the deck into cards with a flat (or sharp) top and cards with a
round top

(the 3 is usually made with a flat top, but sometimes is rounded... look at your deck
to figure out which pile it should be in for your trick)
FLAT TOP:
3 4 5 7 J K A
ROUND TOP:
2 6 8 9 10 Q
with practice it will get easier to spot these cards quickly.

Put the two halves together, one on top of the other. When doing the trick, turn
the cards so they're facing you and split the deck so that one half is the flat top
and the other is the round top (I usually make this easier by putting the ACE of
SPADES where the two halves divide. That way, when I see the ace, I know
where to split the deck in two

Give each volunteer one of the halves (one volunteer gets the flat tops and the
other gets the round tops).

When they chose the cards and put them in their own deck it ends up that there's
one flat top in the round top pile and one round top in the flat top pile.

With practice you'll quickly be able to spot the oddball when you spread the
decks out on the table.

Card Trick 1
Thanks so much to Rita for sending this in!!

Effect:

The magician has three rows of cards. An audience volunteer picks a card in
his/her head and tells the magician what row it's in. The magician does that three
times and on the third time tells the volunteer what their card was. (or have the
magic puppet whisper to you what the card was and then you tell the audience
what the puppet said.)

Supplies:

21 cards, all different

Secret:

First lay out the cards, 3 across and 7 down.

Have someone think of a card and tell you what row its in.

Pick up all the rows, row by row, making sure to pick up the
row that the card is in 2nd.

EXAMPLE: Let's assume the volunteer secretly chose

PINK-6 and then told us their card was in the second
row. We would pick up the rows and we would make
sure the pink row was picked up second so that it was
in the middle of the deck.

Then lay out the cards again (the exact same way, 3 across
& 7 down).

Put down one card per row.

• Ex: First do this *** (let's pretend the stars are

cards).
• Then this: *** and so on (7 times).

In our example, we'd put down BLUE-1, BLUE-2, BLUE-

3 then go down to the next row and place BLUE-4,
BLUE-5, BLUE-6 and so on.

Then ask the volunteer where the card is in now.

Pick up the rows again, like before -- still making sure that
you pick up the row that the card is in 2nd.

In our example, the volunteer would say their card was

in the first row. You would make sure that row was in
the middle of the deck
Lay them out again, the same way.

Then ask the volunteer which row the card is in now.

(You can get dramatic and tell them to think really hard
about it... pretend to be reading their mind)

Then count four cards down in that row.

(It appears more magical if you count to yourself... people
won't realize you're counting four cards down).

The fourth card is their card!!

In our example, the volunteer would have said their

card was in the last row. Four cards down is PINK-6!

MAGIC!

Danny offered this variation to make the trick harder to figure out. He wrote:

"I would like to offer an extra solution for magic trick number 1. In this one you lay
down 3 columns with 7 cards. And the spectator picks a card. The thing is, that it
can become obvious that your always taking the one with the card in it,
SECOND. So to ''hide it'' you can do this. Do the 1st phase of it, Now
RANDOMLY take each column. and lay them down in the way of phase 2. Now
there are 2 columns with 2 cards, and 1 column with 3 cards (those cards I
mention are those that were located in the chosen column). Now all you do is
gotta remember the cards in the column they choose. And then lay them out
THAT way again (or reversed, going from left to right instead of right to left.) And
then those cards will be split apart, so you can still magically get the right card,
but the trick is harder to guess."

Donna provided us with an alternative ending to this card trick:

"Proceed with trick up to the 3rd layout. You know the card is the 4th card in the
row so continue to put the rows together - still with the selected row in the center.
This will make 'the card' the 11th card.

Face down, place the cards into flower groups of 4 or 5 cards per group (you
should get about 5 flower groups) - but remember which card is the 11th (this is
the selected card). Ask the person to pick 2 (or however many you want)
groups .. when they do, take away those groups BUT if the selected card is in
that group, you leave those groups and take away the others. Continue until you
only have the 1 remaining flower group containing the selected card and lay
these cards out side by side and still face down (remembering where the
selected card is).
Ask the person to select 2 cards (as with the flowers, & remembering where the
card is), and again, if they pick 2 and one of these is the selected cards, remove
the other cards leaving those 2. Ask them to pick 1 card .. if they pick the
selected card .. remove the other or vise versa so that the remaining cards will
always the selected card. Turn over the remaining cards and 'vola'.

They told you what flowers or cards to take away so they are even more amazed
when the correct card turns up."

Card Trick 4
Thanks so much to Shelly for sending this in!!

Effect:

The magician shuffles the deck and takes the top thirteen cards. Holding the
cards face down, he proceeds to spell the first card name, Ace. "A-C-E," and for
each letter, he puts one card under the packet of thirteen cards. He then flips
over the next card (the fourth,) and it is an Ace. He repeats this process for each
card number, Ace through King. At the end, he has all thirteen cards face up on
the table, in sequential order.

Supplies:

~a deck of cards

Preparation:

Remove and arrange 13 cards in the following setup, top card down: Three, Eight,
Seven, Ace, Queen, Six, Four, Two, Jack, King, Ten, Nine, and Five. Put these
on top of the deck.
 A magic teacher named Harold wrote to share a little story
he tells his students to help them remember the setup for
this trick:
"Three hundred & eighty seven years ago there lived a Queen that was
sixty four years old. She had two children. One named Jack, the other
named King. Jack was ten years old and King was nine years old and
the were both in the fifth grade."
3,8 7,A,Q,6,4,2,J,K,10,9 and 5
Thanks Harold! (Harold's Site)

Secret:

To start, pretend to shuffle the cards, leaving the top thirteen untouched (young
children can skip the shuffling part and just begin with the 13 cards.

Remove the top thirteen cards as a group and arrange them like a fan, so that
your audience can see their faces. Square up the cards, and hold them face
down.

When you spell out each card, do it as follows: let's say you're spelling the word
ACE. Spell A, remove the top card and place it on the bottom. Then spell C, and
remove the top card and place that on the bottom. Next spell E, remove this top
card and place it on the bottom. Flip the new top card and show that it's an Ace,
and place it ON THE TABLE (not on the bottom of the deck).

Continue in this manner until all the cards are face up on the table. (eh: You spell
the cards in order: Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K) Your audience may
realize that the cards must have been set up beforehand, but this only adds to
the mystery - and you can treat it as a puzzle for them to try to figure out.

Card Trick 5
Thanks so much to Shelly for sending this in!!

Effect:

The magician spills the deck onto the table. He picks one of the cards up with a
magic handkerchief, says a magic word and poof! the card disappears

Supplies:

~a deck of cards (or part of a deck)

~a toothpick (or a thin popsicle stick)
~a handkerchief that is not see-through and that has a hem
~scissors
~OPTIONAL: magic puppet

Preparation:

Cut the toothpick so that it's the same width as one of the cards (the width is the
shorter side of the card.) Push the toothpick into the hem of the handkerchief,
making sure it won't fall out.

Secret:

Spread the deck of cards out on the table... you may want to fiddle with this a bit,
using a magic puppet, to draw the audience's attention to the cards and the
puppet.

Place the handkerchief overtop of the cards with the toothpick hem facing
down. Don't fiddle with this part... you don't want them to guess that the
handkerchief is special.

With your
thumb and
finger, pick up
the
handkerchief,
holding onto
the toothpick
(Say
something
like, "I will now
pick up a
card"). This
will trick the
audience into
thinking there
is a card
under the
handkerchief.

Pick up the
edges of the
toothpick so it
looks like
you’re picking
up a card.

The red in the

 diagram
represents the
toothpick, but
it will be
invisible to the
audience.

Say some magic words, wave a wand or wave your magic puppet over the
handkerchief.

Flap it in the air, letting go of the toothpick part and just holding the corner.

Presto! The "card" has disappeared.

Card Trick 7 -- The Color Card Twin Towers

Thanks so much to Gregory for sharing this with us!!
"The pre-arranged deck effect is well-known, but this particular handling is by
myself." Gregory

Effect:

The deck is split into two halves (towers), both of which may be shuffled by the
spectator. The spectator selects a card from either pile (his free choice!), and
replaces it *anywhere* (his free choice!) into the other pile which he immediately
shuffles. The magician finds the selected card even after the spectator has
shuffled the pile thoroughly!

Supplies:

• Complete deck of cards.

Preparation:

• Pre-arrange the deck by separating the cards into two piles of black cards
& red cards.
• Place these two piles on top of each other to make one complete deck.
• Pre-arrange the deck ahead of time - don't let anyone see you do this!

Performance:

• Casually split the deck in half, creating two face-down piles (towers), one
of the red cards, the other of the black cards.
 • Let the spectator freely choose one tower, and select any card from this
pile. Do this by fanning out the cards face down, and have him touch a
card, which he takes and remembers.
• Have the spectator insert his selected card anywhere into the *other*
tower.
• Look through the tower containing the spectator's card. The only different
coloured card in the pile is the selected card!
• Produce the chosen card with your favorite revelation. A simple method is
to place the card on the table face down, and turn it over after the
spectator names his card.

Tips:

• Keep the cards face down at all times, so that the spectator cannot see
that each tower has cards of the same color!
• To heighten the effect, have the spectator shuffle each tower (face-down)
thoroughly before making his choice. Also have the spectator shuffle the
pile thoroughly after replacing his selected card. From the spectator's view
point, the magician has not seen the chosen card, and can have no idea
of its location because it is impossibly lost in the pile!
• To reduce the chances of the secret being "discovered", instead of
separating the deck into red and black cards, separate it into odd cards
and even cards (count jacks and kings as odd, queens as even). At a
glance, each pile will look like a random assortment of red and black cards,
and the fact that the deck is pre-arranged will not be obvious.
• This trick is so mystifying that it *can* be repeated once or twice without
risk of discovery! (but only when you are using piles with odd and even
cards)
• For a variation with two spectators, have each spectator select a pile and
a card, and shuffle their selected cards into the other spectator's pile.
• This secret of this trick may seem rather basic, but when played up, the
effect is baffling for the spectator, especially since he shuffles the pile into
which he replaces his card, so excluding any sleight of hand!

Card Trick 8
Thanks to Jane for sharing this with us!!

Effect:

The magician picks one person for the trick. The one person picks a card,
remembers the card, and puts it back in the deck. You search the deck and find
the card. Watch as the jaws drop.
Supplies:

• Complete deck of cards.

Preparation:

• Make sure all of the cards are one way

• Flip the bottom card upside down so if you flip the deck over it looks like
the top.

Performance:

• When they are looking at the card you flip the deck over
• since you already flipped the bottom card over it will look like the top of the
deck
• when they put the card back in it will be the only one flipped that way.

Cool Coin Trick - Coin Warp

By Kind Permission From Franc Karpo

http://www.fkmagic.com

Effect: Magician displays three coins, (nickels) on the table. One coin is picked up by the
right hand and placed into the left hand. A second coin is picked up and placed in the left
hand along with the first coin.The third coin is placed into the right pants pocket.

The left hand is opened to show that the third has travelled by magic into the left hand,
making a total of three coins! The three coins are then dropped onto the table.

This entire sequence is repeated again revealing the coin has again travelled back into the
left hand. The three coins are dumped onto the table.

This time the magician drops one coin into his left hand and places two coins into his
pocket. Now when the left hand is opened, instead of the coins travelling back into the
hand, the coin transforms into one big coin, a half dollar.

Preparation: To do this you need you need four coins instead of three. Ahha, that's the
secret! You also need a larger coin for the transformation. I like to use four quarters and a
silver dollar. I've also used four nickels and a half dollar. Basically you want to have a
definite difference in the size of the coins, so that the transformation will be more
dramatic.

Here's what you do before you start:

(I'll assume that you're going to use four nickels and a half dollar.) Place the big coin into
your right jacket pocket. The extra, (4th) nickel is hidden in the right hand. Just try to
relax the hand and not grip the coin with too much force. The other three nickels are on
the table.

Performance: Pick up one coin from the table with the right hand, ( don't let anyone see
the hidden coin. ) Place this coin into the left hand. Say to audience, "One coin in my
hand."

(As soon as the left hand has the coin - make sure to close that hand.)

Grab another coin from the table. Place this coin into the left hand along with the first
coin, but, at the same time secretly drop the hidden coin into the left hand as well, making
a total of three coins. Say," Two coins in my hand." (Make sure to close your left hand
after the coins are in it.) The audience believes that you have two coins in your left hand.
Pick up the last, ( apparently 3rd coin ) from the table with your right hand and openly
place it into your right pocket. Say, "And a coin goes into my pocket." But that's not what
really happens! Here's what's really going on: you pretend to place the coin into your
right pants pocket, but really come back out with it hidden in your right hand. Just let
your hand relax naturally by your side.

"Did you see it jump back?" As soon as you say this, open your left hand and dump three
coins onto the table to show that the 3rd coin has magically jumped from your pocket and
back to your hand! ( Everyone will be watching the three coins so the heat will be off the
hidden coin it your right hand .)

Now repeat the sequence again. The right hand picks up a coin and places it into your left
hand; make sure not to expose the hidden coin in your right hand. Pick up another coin
with your right hand and drop in into the left hand at the same time secretly adding the
hidden coin. (You now have three coins in your left hand, but the audience is only aware
of two.)

Now this is where we change it up for the big finish. The right hand picks up the last coin
from the table and places it into the right pants pocket as before, but this time you really
do drop the coin into your pocket and grab the big coin, ( half dollar or silver dollar;
depending on what you're using ) and bring your hand out of your pocket keeping the big
coin hidden from the audience. (Relax your right hand by your side.) Open your left hand
and dump three coins on the table to show that the coin has travelled back again!

Ok, here's the final sequence.

(You have three coins on the table with the big coin hidden in your right hand.) "This
time we will do it backwards. One coin in my hand." Pick up one of the coins from the
table with your right hand and apparently place it into the left hand. What you really do is
switch the coins. The right hand drops the big coin into the left hand while holding back
the small coin. This takes a little practice, but it's not hard as it sounds. The closing of the
left hand around the coin will cover the fact that you've switched them. This is the most
important part of this coin trick. If you can this move smoothly, the coin trick will amaze
everyone!

At this point the closed left hand has the big coin inside of it. (The audience thinks it has
a smaller coin.) The right hand has a small coin secretly hidden in it. (There are two coins
left on the table.) "And these two will go into my pocket." The right hand with its hidden
coin picks up the final coins (at the same time) from the table and drops all three coins
into the right pants pocket. Now you are clean. The left hand has the big coin and the
right hand is empty. Casually show that your right hand is indeed empty.

At this point, look at your audience and ask, "How many coins are there now in my in my
hand?" Some will answer, "Two" some others will say "three." You reply, "Only one - a
big one!" As soon as you say "only one", open your hand to show the transformation and
dump the big coin on the table! Every time I do this people grab for the big coin. They
want to check it out and make sure it's for real. The beauty of this trick is that you're
clean with nothing to hide. Congratulations, you've just performed a miracle! Have
fun performing with your free coin magic trick.

Key Points

1. Whenever you have a coin hidden in your hand, try to relax. Slightly turn your body to
the left so that the back of the right hand is facing the audience. Also never look at your
hand when you have a coin hidden in it. Remember the audience will follow your eyes.

2. Practice the routine in the mirror. Any mistakes will be evident. Especially practice the
switch with the big coin. Sometimes people will see a flash of the big coin. That's OK
because they will think it's the smaller coin. Remember you're the only one who knows
about the big coin!

3. When you have this coin magic trick well rehearsed, you can substitute and use other
objects. I've used four grapes and a small lemon or tomato. I've also used four pebbles
and a stone. Use your imagination.

4. The Grand Total.

Let a person write down the year of his birth and then the year of his marriage, or his first year of
school.

Then he must write his age at the end of the present year, and to it the number of years he has
been married, or the number of years since he began school.
In the meantime you have written a total on a paper and put it in an envelope. The total of the
person's figures will be the same as the total you wrote.

Here is the reason: The sum will always be twice the number of the present year.

Thus, if the trick is done in 1928:

Year of Birth............... 1900
Year of marriage ........... 1925
Age ....................... 28
Years since marriage......... 3
Total .................... 38,56
The number 3856 is two times 19281

5. Cross Them Out.

Write the following numbers in a line 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

The object is to cross out three groups of numbers, starting from the end of the linf and the last
number of each group must b odd. This sounds impossible, as the last group must end with 10!
But it can be done.

Method: Start from the right end. Thus your first group crossed out can end in 7 the second in 3,
and the third in 1

1. Totalling Twenty.

Tell a person to write down five odd figures in a column and add them up to total twenty.

As twenty is an even number, people who try it will soon give it up. But the magician can do it!

Here is the method: Put down 13, 5, 1, and 1. Add these numbers and the total will be 20. But
there are only four odd numbers. That is true, but there are five odd figures: 1, 3, 5, 1, and 1.

The conditions of the trick call for five odd figures, which most people take to mean five odd
numbers.

3. Nine Figures.

Write something on a piece of paper and lay it aside.

Then write the figures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Tell a person to cross out a figure. Then you eliminate
figures by having them crossed out. When only one is left, open the paper and there will be the
figure!

Method: On the paper write 5. Most persons will cross out 5. If they do so, open the paper and
show that the number on it is 5!

If they cross out another number state th you have eliminated one figure, leaving tv+ groups of
four.

Ask that four figures be chosen. If 5 is among them, have the other four crossed out. If 5 is not
among them, cross them out.

Then have two figures chosen. Repeat if 5 is there, have the others crossed out. If not, cross out
the chosen figures.

Ask that one of the two remaining figures be selected. If 5 is picked, cross out the other. If not,
cross out the chosen figure.

It is a case of a certain elimination to the figure 5, a ruse that is never detected.