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Monday, April 10, 2006

Monday Night Magic

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Today Christine and I went to the Monday Night Magic show. This is my second time going there and I enjoyed it again. Just like as last time, they had 3 magicians plus another one who was the MC. The first two magicians performed in the first act of the show. They were Danny Alan and Francis Menotti. Then there was a 15-minute intermission during which several other magicians scattered throughout the theatre and showed close-up magic tricks. Then the third magician, Jamy Ian Swiss, took the entire third act. The first act consisted of the visual tricks, but in the last one the magician was performing the mind tricks. He was basically "reading peoples minds". He was able to guess someone's favorite book, guess the words that people found on random pages of a book, etc... Everything went pretty smoothly until Jamy Ian Swiss got to the trick where he has a member of the audience pick a two-digit number and then fills in a 8X8 grid such that the number in every row and column add up to that number, and the numbers in each 2X2 grid ad up to that number as well and the numbers in diagonals ad up to that number as well. On two tries he could not do it. He promised to get it right next time...