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Perhaps one of the most useful weapons in the mind-magician’s arsenal is a technique known as ‘forcing’. Quite simply, although your spectator believes he or she has had a completely free and unrestricted choice from a number of random items, you have, in fact, severely limited his options.

For example, if I were to ask you to think of any odd number from 50 to 99, I have already limited your choice by half. Later, when I say, ‘You had a free choice of a number between 50 and 99. Is that correct?’ You cannot deny it is the truth. Yet it seems to any onlooker that you had twice as many choices as you had in reality.

Later in the book, you will see a more complex example of forcing, but for now let’s start with an experiment using a very simple force involving a playing card to create the impression of amazing precognition.