To-Do Voodoo by Rick Lax

I carry this one with me everywhere I go. If you’re looking for a mind reading miracle that takes up practically no space, To-Do Voodoo is perfect for you.

Here how it goes:

“Yesterday I had one of those days—a million things to do. I actually made a list.”

You pull out a numbered list of ten chores from your wallet and freely show it around.

“Do laundry, go to the gym, email my mom—ten different chores.”

You ask the spectator to think of a number between one and ten. And then you ask her to find the number on the list and imagine herself doing the chore at that number.

“Imagine yourself really doing the chore,” you say.

And then, without any fishing and without any equivocation or fishing, you tell her the chore she’s thinking of.

She wants to see the trick again? No problem—that’s explained on the download, too. Just her think of a different number, which will lead to her a different task…which you will guess with equal ease.

Like Daniel Garcia’s iPhone list prediction, To-Do VooDoo is an ingenious update on Bill Goldman and Ned Rutledge's work. With To-Do Voodoo, there’s NO FISHING and no messing with odd/even numbers. Just straightforward mind reading.

Credits to Ned Rutledge, Bill Goldman, Jim Pace