Jedi card tricks

Filed under: Ideas by Jeremy on Wednesday, 5th January 2011 at 7:22 am

This is a famous card “trick”. It’s actually not really a trick at all but when I learned about this “trick”, it was the first time that I realized that the human brain isn’t all it’s made out to be.

Here’s the “trick”:

If I tell you that these four cards belong to a deck where if there’s a vowel on one side, then the other side is an even number, which two cards would you flip over to see if I was right?

I’ll explain tomorrow.

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