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Randy Charach performs a live mentalism trick with volunteer Julio and two audience members. Each writes a three-digit number, they add them together, and Charach reveals a pre-written prediction of $1,465 that matches their total.
Randy Charach performs a live mentalism trick with volunteer Julio and two audience members. Each writes a three-digit number, they add them together, and Charach reveals a pre-written prediction of $1,465 that matches their total.
Is a prediction something that I believe to be true, that I think is going to happen? And I'm going to have you put this somewhere where I'm not going to get it, somewhere safe. How about just tuck it in your pants? But leave it sticking out, the prediction. Just the prediction, leave the prediction sticking out. You speak really good English, right? Okay, no, tuck it in, into your— yeah, with the question mark out. There we go. I don't want to have to do this for you, Julio. OK. Yeah, that's good. That's good. It stops there, does it? OK. That's really good. I'm impressed. Julio, no matter what, don't let me get in there. Again. OK. Now, Julio, because you claim to be so good with numbers— Yeah. I'm going to ask you a question. If I were to give you a 3-digit number, So think of how many possible outcomes do you have? 9. How many? 9? A 3-digit number, you'd have 9 possible outcomes? So who exactly do you do your accounting for? Clients. You have clients? They trust you with their books and stuff? I have good news and I have bad news. Which do you want to hear first? Okay. Could you— this guy over here, the lonely one. I know. I'd like you to just write down a 3-digit number right there. Go ahead, just write it down. And while he's doing that, I would like— I'd like you to think of one and just write a 3-digit number right there. Go ahead. Good. Hey, Julio. Do you ever get any calls like from CRA, Revenue Canada, or anything? Just, uh, 3-digit number please. So if we take 3 3-digit numbers, add them together, how many possible outcomes would we have? 9. 9, correct. Julio, oh, this is what's going to happen. You're going to add those up. And come on over here. Okay. Do you need help? Calculator? No. You're good? Go ahead and add up. So with 3 random people choose 3-digit numbers, go ahead, yeah, add them up, you know. Yeah, you usually start with 1 and then you add it to the next. You're really an accountant? Okay. All right, good. Okay, and so lots of possible outcomes, right? 3-digit number, 3 of them, adding them together. How many possible outcomes, you know? Just one. The answer is lots. Lots. Yeah, possible outcomes. Could you say— here, this will be for you— nice and loud, what is the total of the 3 3-digit numbers? They wrote them, you added it. What is the total? 1,465. Okay, I'm going to translate that one. It's— I love you. $1,465. I wasn't able to get in there, was I? No. No. Thank goodness, huh? Go ahead and take it out. $1,465 was the total. $1,465. Go ahead and show everybody what it says. What does it say? $1,465. Give Julio a really big round of applause. Thank you for coming up here.
