Pretend to Read Minds Using the 'Orange Kangaroo' Word Trick
The "Orange Kangaroo" word trick provides a fun and easy way to convince your friends that you can read their minds. All you have to do is ask a series of questions related to numbers and letters, all of which will almost inevitably lead a person to think of the words "orange" and "kangaroo" at the end. Once you master this set of questions, all of your friends will be awed by your magical powers.
Steps
- Choose your target.
- Ask him or her to think of a number between 2 and 8. Make sure your target doesn't say it aloud.
- Multiply this number by 9.
- Add the two digits together. So, 18 would give 1 + 8 = 9.
- Subtract 5 from your answer.
- Associate your number with a letter from the alphabet. For example, A = 1,B = 2, and so on.
- Think of a country beginning with that letter.
- Think of an animal where the first letter of the animals name is the last letter of the country's name. For example, England ends with "d", so you can associate that with "dog".
- Think of a color where the first letter of the color's name is the last letter of the animals name.
- Ask your target, "Is it an orange Kangaroo in Denmark?" He or she should say yes....
Tips
- A more effective outcome to this is if at the end you say "You will never find an orange Kangaroo in Denmark?" instead of "is it an orange kangaroo and Denmark?"
- The trick here is that the number-letter association is always D, no matter what number you choose.
- Similarly, more people will think to say "kangaroo" because of the easy color association of the last letter with "orange".
- One could also reply with "koala", but will probably have a difficult time discerning a color that begins with "a". Therefore, kangaroo is a more common response.
- In rare cases you may face intelligent people who found green dog/yellow donkey in Germany/Deutschland!
- or indigo Kiwi in Denmark
- Koala does work, too, depending on the person. Aqua, aubergine, amethyst, azure, quarantine, etc.
- Don't get upset if someone doesn't do it the way you want them to. They just think differently, that's all.
- It helps if you know the intellect of the person beforehand. Some **--dumb--** friends of yours might make a mistake in the math and even end up with a different letter!!
Warnings
- If you try doing this trick on too many people, it will get easily figured out. Remember to try on a variety of different people!
- Remember that there are other countries beginning with 'D' such as Djibouti.
