Holly's Memory Magic

Despite me taking the week off work for half term, we have had a pretty uneventful week so far with mostly decorating, the odd cycle ride and then some swimming. Hopefully towards the back end of this week we will do some more exciting stuff with the kiddies.

One of the things I did with Holly earlier this week was to dig out some old magic sets of the boys which they have hardly used. There was one particular memory reading trick which Holly is amazing at. Basically there are 4 circular cards each with 6 random pictures on. Some of the pictures repeat on other cards, some don't. The idea is that you ask someone to think of any of the items on the cars, then turn over only the cars that have that picture on it. 

To then pretend to read the person's memory you look at the back of the cards and there is a character holding up 1, 2, 3 or 4 cards and you add the number of cards together, check this on a cheat sheet list and it will tell you what picture it correlates too. Well after me doing this about 3 times to Holly to had memorised every combination of pictures and cards and can do the trick without even knowing about the card counting or the cheat sheet. You can literally test her with any picture and she will 100% get it right!!!! Not bad for someone with learning difficulties.

Holly was so proud of herself that she even took the card trick in to school to show her friends nd teachers.

Holly the psychic memory reader.

For circular cards with various random pictures, Holly has memorised the lot!!

She didn't even realise it was a trick and that you count the number of cards held up and look on a cheat sheet.