The Psychic Paper

This is a good effect and very puzzling. It used to be a favorite dinner table effect with H. S. Paine.

Performer places four different colors of tissue paper on the table, one red, one green, one blue, one black.

A book of cigarette papers is picked up, out of which a sheet is removed and passed to a spectator for examination. Magician rolls this cigarette paper into a ball and places it on any color of tissue paper chosen by spectator. Another member of audience is then asked to select a number anywhere between one and one thousand and to name it. He is then told to pick up the ball and open it. There on the cigarette paper is the number which the spectator selected, written in the same color as that of the paper which the other spectator selected.