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Re:Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research C... by cpchen on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:20PM (#14515998)
I'm going to be coy here: that's a classic in magic, with many possible solutions!
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Re:Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research C... by cpchen on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:23PM (#14516019)
Just as a tangent: what you posed is an example of what the magic community refers to as a problem (what the spectator sees). Magicians then try to come up with a method that satisfies all the constraints specified in the problem.
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Re:Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research C... by reitanqild on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:36PM (#14516112)
Heh

Slightly more annoying though is that I seem to have forgotten to add a website I found last time I researched "mind reading" to my bookmark collection at pinboard.

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