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  2. Billet reading - Wikipedia

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    Billet reading, or the envelope trick, is a mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to use clairvoyance to read messages on folded papers or inside sealed envelopes. It is a widely performed "standard" of the mentalist craft since the middle of the 19th century. Billet is the French term for note or letter, referring to the rectangular ...

  3. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses [ 1] —in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging. Some scholars also call such a technique a ...

  4. Trick-or-treating - Wikipedia

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    Trick-or-treating is a traditional Halloween custom for children and adults in some countries. During the evening of Halloween, on October 31, people in costumes travel from house to house, asking for treats with the phrase "trick or treat". The "treat" is some form of confectionery, usually candy /sweets, although in some cultures money is ...

  5. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    The ticket was not altered, but the daily newspaper reporting the day's winning numbers was altered with a black pen. [ citation needed ] In the USSR this scam left three people dead in 1977, after a mark re-sold a fraudulent ticket and the second buyer engaged a criminal to "clear the issue", leading to the murder of the original mark and two ...

  6. Mental calculation - Wikipedia

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    For single digit numbers simply duplicate the number into the tens digit, for example: 1 × 11 = 11, 2 × 11 = 22, up to 9 × 11 = 99. The product for any larger non-zero integer can be found by a series of additions to each of its digits from right to left, two at a time. First take the ones digit and copy that to the temporary result.

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  8. Fibonacci sequence - Wikipedia

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    A different trick may be used to prove = = + or in words, the sum of the squares of the first Fibonacci numbers up to is the product of the n-th and (n + 1)-th Fibonacci numbers. To see this, begin with a Fibonacci rectangle of size F n × F n + 1 {\displaystyle F_{n}\times F_{n+1}} and decompose it into squares of size F n , F n − 1 , . . .

  9. Mnemonic - Wikipedia

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    Knuckle mnemonic for the number of days in each month of the Gregorian calendar.Each knuckle represents a 31-day month. A mnemonic device (/ n ɪ ˈ m ɒ n ɪ k / nih-MON-ik) [1] or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating the information with something that is easier to remember.