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CronoDAS comments on Magic Tricks Revealed: Test Your Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: peter_hurford 13 August 2011 05:23AM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 14 August 2011 09:49:22PM 5 points [-]

I sometimes feel as though magic tricks can be divided into "clever tricks" and "cheap tricks". For example, this is a clever trick, while any trick involving identical twins and almost any trick involving a confederate in the audience is a cheap trick.

Comment author: MoreOn 19 August 2011 10:47:00PM 1 point [-]

Bwahahahahahaha! I'll admit I kinda freaked out at first.