FEELING FRUITY?

Feeling fruity?

In this little experiment, the mentalist, whilst at home, offers a little demonstration of his powers to his assembled family.

One person, (the medium) is instructed to go out of the room. Way away, so they can’t hear or see what’s happening.

The mentalist then offers one of the remaining crowd, a choice of 3 items from a fruit bowl. Let’s say they chose an orange, a banana, and a pear.

The spectator is asked to imagine that they are picking up one of the pieces of fruit, and then take a bite.

So the rest of the people in the room can join in, you ask them to pick up the imagined fruit, and pretend to eat it.

The fruit is now mixed up with the others. The medium is now summoned back into the room, goes over to the fruit, and picks up the chosen piece, taking a bite on it for good measure.


The how is reasonably simple. The person that goes out of the room is in the know. You use a very simple code. Firstly the fruit offered, can indeed be any fruit. When they chose the fruit, you put it mentally in alphabetical order, so Banana, orange, & pear in this case.
If the spectator chose the banana, you put all the fruit in your right hand, when offering the “medium” his choice.
If the spectator chose the Orange, all the fruit goes into the left hand, when offering the choice, and if they chose the pear, you give the fruit to the spectator to offer to the medium. It’s as simple as that.

You can do this with other things. Cans of drinks, packets of crisps, nuts ect.
Anything that’s edible, and around at a party.




(Based on an idea hidden in New Jinx magazine.)