Dice and a Book

Most readers will have a set of the five dice used in Heath's Deciphering Dice Trick. After using it for a time, I discovered that the dice were peculiarly adapted for a subtle book test. Effect: Produce the five dice and mention that they are used for some money game (without going into that part further) as an excuse for their being numbered with three digits to a side. Let someone shake and roll them.

You line them up in a row, and turning your back ask the person assisting to add up the figures and get the total. Then ask him how many figures are in the total. He replies that there are four, and you tell him to look at the first two and the last two. Now toss him a book, and have him open it at the page represented by the higher of the two numbers.

Then, taking the other number, he counts to that word on the page and remembers it. You take out a pocket notebook, jot something down on a page, tear it out, crumple it and hand it to another person. The word is now disclosed, and your written divination is found to be correct.