Dustin Baker - Stop the Presses

Dustin Baker - Stop the Presses

Effect The magician borrows a newspaper from a nearby spectator， and then proceeds to rip the paper into pieces. He now jots down a prediction on a piece of paper and hands it to the same spectator to hold for later). He has a volunteer come forward and blindfolds them. They then take the paper and are asked to shuffle pieces off until they feel like stopping. When they stop， the magician hands them a sharpie and asks them to make a dot on the paper. The magician now takes the stack of papers and asks them to remove the blindfold. The spectator now reads the word that they randomly placed the dot on， followed by the rest of the sentence – this is found to match the prediction perfectly.