The Serial Number Trick

Easy Magic Trick. All you need is a dollar bill. They will think you have psychic powers!



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Step 1 The Trick

There is a number that appears in all four corners of a $1 bill. the point of this trick is to guess that number without seeing it.

Comments

[madelyn russo]

AWESOME!!!!!!

[swimmerstyle]

I never knew this. This is really cool, Thanks!

[Bad Donut]

i knew this by the time i was 6

[xrobevansx]

out of there wallet ...

[tmasman]

Or maybe out of their wallet???

Oy...

[xrobevansx]

i was quoting the poster's video.

[EviLNinJa]

yea Im stupid lol

[hernanai]

These numbers and letters correspond to the location they were printed at.

Boston 1 A
Chicago 7 G
New York 2 B
St. Louis 8 H
Philadelphia 3 C
Minneapolis 9 I
Cleveland 4 D
Kansas City 10 J
Richmond 5 E
Dallas 11 K
Atlanta 6 F
San Francisco 12 L

Here's the link: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~jpwms/mixednumbers/money.html

[GorillazMiko]

I always notice these numbers, I am a coin/ currency collector. Some rare notes have stars instead of a letter in the end of the code, those are called star notes. They're very rare. You can Google them up if you want, they're really interesting.

[!Andrew_Modder!]

ya, i used to have a bunch of star notes. but when i found out they were out of norm. they r allready gone :-( . they can be worth up to 300$ more w a star i heard on the history channel...

[GorillazMiko]

They are. What did you mean by "out of norm."?

[!Andrew_Modder!]

out of the normal, or different lol

[Spectrace]

its alot easier to tell the number by the big letter in the circle/seal on the left side of the bill. every bill made before they started making the colored money has that circle/seal with a letter in it, which is the same as the one in the serial number, and the number of letter in the alphabet in the 4 corners.

[moomoocows]

Very nice I agree with the earlier poster I never noticed those before.

[theRIAA]

iv'e never even noticed those numbers