To P e r f o r m. Approach a woman and ask her to hold out both hands, palm down

Approach a woman and ask her to hold out both hands, palm down. Reach out and grasp her hands, her right hand with your left, and her

	left hand with your right. Grasp them
	gently between your thumbs, above,
	and first and second fingertips, on
	her palms. Move her hands up and
	down for a moment as if adjusting
	their height—it is at this moment
	that you secretly press the ashes onto
her left palm with your right second
	finger (photo 2). Don’t forget to press
	against her right palm as well so ev-
	erything feels the same to her. Let go
	of her hands.

Say, “Please name right or left on the count of three. One, two, three!”

₃ If she says “left,” then ask her to close her left hand into a loose fist and let her right hand drop. If she says “right,” ask her to drop her right

hand. Then say, “Please close your left hand into a fist.”

Either way, she ends up with her left hand closed in a fist.

Walk over to where the ashtray is and pick it up with your left hand. Openly touch your right second finger to the ashes, then put the ashtray down. Return to the person and clearly display the ash on your finger.

Touch your finger to the back of her closed fist, putting some ash on it (photo 3). Then vigorously rub your fingers against the back of her hand (you’re actually rubbing the ashes away) as you say, “ Do you feel the heat, do you feel it?”

Hold your hands above and be-low her hand and concentrate really hard and allow your hands to trem-ble a bit (photo 4). After a few mo-ments of this, slowly move your right hand away to reveal that the ashes have disappeared from the back of her hand.

Ask the person to turn her hand over and open it to reveal the ashes on her palm (photo 5). She’ll scream.

33.

Newspaper

Prediction

Criss displays a sealed envelope containing a prediction—this is given to someone to hold. Next he picks up a strip cut from a sheet of newspaper and a pair of scissors. He runs the open scissors down the newspaper strip until someone calls stop. He cuts the strip at the point chosen by the spectator. After the top line of the cut-off piece is read aloud, the person holding the envelope rips it open and reads

Criss’s prediction—they match!

	To P r e p a r e
	You need a large format newspa-
	per such as the New York Times and
	scissors. Cut a long narrow single
column of type from an article that
	runs the entire length of the page
	(photo 1). Now cut off the top few
	lines so the top line of your strip
	begins in the middle of a sentence
	(photo 2). You also need a marker,
	a pad of paper on which to write
	your prediction, and an envelope in
	which to seal it.

Look at the top line of text and remember it.

One of the most important things to note about this trick is that it cannot be performed for people who are sitting very close to you—you should be at least ten feet away from them.

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