Introduction: 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 $1 bill. the point of this trick is to guess that number without seeing it.
Step 2: The Dollar Bill
Ask a member of your audience to take a dollar bill out of their wallet and fold it as shown to hide the corner numbers.
Step 3: How Its Done
There are two ways to read this portion of the bill to learn the numbers in the corners. the first letter in the serial number corresponds to the number in the corners and also the letter in the circle on the left side of the bill.
A=1 B=2 C=3.....
Step 4: How to Work It.
the best way to pull this trick off is to use multiple dollar bills and really get your audience going!
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15 Comments
11 years ago on Step 4
AWESOME!!!!!!
14 years ago on Introduction
I never knew this. This is really cool, Thanks!
14 years ago on Introduction
i knew this by the time i was 6
15 years ago on Introduction
out of there wallet ...
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
Or maybe out of their wallet???
Oy...
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
i was quoting the poster's video.
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
yea Im stupid lol
15 years ago on Introduction
These numbers and letters correspond to the location they were printed at.
Boston 1 A
Chicago 7 G
New York 2 B
St. Louis 8 H
Philadelphia 3 C
Minneapolis 9 I
Cleveland 4 D
Kansas City 10 J
Richmond 5 E
Dallas 11 K
Atlanta 6 F
San Francisco 12 L
Here's the link: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~jpwms/mixednumbers/money.html
15 years ago on Introduction
I always notice these numbers, I am a coin/ currency collector. Some rare notes have stars instead of a letter in the end of the code, those are called star notes. They're very rare. You can Google them up if you want, they're really interesting.
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
ya, i used to have a bunch of star notes. but when i found out they were out of norm. they r allready gone :-( . they can be worth up to 300$ more w a star i heard on the history channel...
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
They are. What did you mean by "out of norm."?
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
out of the normal, or different lol
15 years ago on Introduction
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.
15 years ago on Introduction
Very nice I agree with the earlier poster I never noticed those before.
15 years ago on Introduction
iv'e never even noticed those numbers