Dictionary Deception

Effect: You read someone's mind.

Secret: On the top right corner of each right hand page of the middle third of a dictionary write the word printed at the top of the left page. Hold the spine of the book in your left hand and ruffle the pages with the right. Ask someone to stop you anywhere. Make certain he stops you somewhere in the central section. Open the book wide and ask him to remember the word at the top of the left hand page. You look at the word you wrote on the opposite page then pretend to read the spectator's mind.