The all-round academic master's girlfriend

Chapter 221: Principle of Priority

After eating and drinking, the next step is to prepare for the exciting show.

“Watch the show~Watch the show~”

While Tang Yuze was getting ready, Xia Jinxi sat on the sofa, swinging her eye-catching long legs.

Especially when recalling the last time Tang Yuze used a hook to fly around the stage, Xia Jinxi was even more looking forward to his performance tonight.

Then, Tang Yuze produced a deck of cards like a magic trick and said to Xia Jinxi.

"Magic show?"

"Just asking if you want to see it?"

"Of course I want to see it!"

Xia Jinxi opened her eyes and was determined to see through his tricks!

"First of all, this is a complete deck of cards, with no duplicates, right?"

"Ah."

"Okay, then please ask Xia Jinxi to shuffle the cards herself."

After taking the poker from Tang Yuze, Xia Jinxi carefully observed the back of the card.

After confirming that each card was the same and not tampered with, she shuffled the cards repeatedly before handing them to Tang Yuze.

Tang Yuze turned over all the playing cards with skillful techniques, then looked at his sister with a very natural expression, but in fact he secretly memorized what the first card on the top of the deck was.

"Okay, this is the cards you shuffled. You can see that the order is all messed up, right?"

"Yes."

"Very good. Next, please divide the playing cards into three piles. You can put any number of cards in one pile."

"it is good."

Xia Jinxi always felt like she had fallen into a trap, but she still did as Tang Yuze said and divided the cards into three piles.

"Okay, now comes the moment of miracle. Do you believe that I can use my special ability to sense what is on the top of these three piles of cards?"

"Do not believe!"

Xia Jinxi didn't believe it, but Tang Yuze really had special abilities.

Of course, this magic trick doesn't require the use of his super powers.

"Then take a look."

Tang Yuze exaggeratedly touched the back of the first card with his hand, and then said:

"Seven of Hearts."

After saying that, he held the card in his hand without showing it to Xia Jinxi, and then showed an expression that said, "As expected."

"What about the second pile?"

Xia Jinxi admitted that her brother's magic trick of being able to sense which card was of what suit did arouse her curiosity.

Still using exaggerated gestures to touch the top card of the second pile, Tang Yuze spoke again:

"6 of clubs."

Then he took the top card back into his own hand and nodded, looking like an old charlatan.

Finally he touched the third pile:

"Eight...Eight of spades."

After predicting the points and suit of the third card, Tang Yuze took it in his hand again, and then scattered all three cards in his hand at once. All three cards were just as he predicted, namely "2 of Hearts", "6 of Clubs" and "8 of Spades".

"How amazing! You guessed them all correctly. Are your supernatural powers useless?"

"No, because I'm going to reveal the answer in a moment."

Tang Yuze began to replay his memories with his sister.

"Xiao Xi, do you remember the scene when I asked you to shuffle the cards and then deliberately spread out all the cards in your hand so that you could see if all the cards were shuffled?"

"remember."

Of course Xia Jinxi remembered it. After all, she was paying close attention to the whole process of the magic trick, not to mention the stage when her brother spread out all the cards.

"Could it be possible that my brother memorized the order of all the cards in those few seconds?"

"That's impossible, but I did remember the cards, but only the first one at the top."

Tang Yuze smiled.

"The principle of this magic is called the 'precedence principle'. At that time, I pretended not to care and memorized the first card. In fact, only one card needs to be memorized to represent the success of this magic."

"why?"

"Xiao Xi, do you remember that when I was guessing the cards, I picked up each card after guessing it but didn't show it to you?"

"remember."

Xia Jinxi nodded and tried her best to recall the previous scene.

"Okay, let's start with the cards. The first card I remember is the 2 of hearts on top of this pile, so the first card in the leftmost pile must be the 2 of hearts, so I will start guessing from the rightmost card."

"I deliberately said that the card on the far right was the 2 of Hearts, then picked it up and smiled mysteriously, pretending that I had guessed correctly. But in fact, that was not the case. The card I picked up was actually the 6 of Clubs."

"Then I guessed the top card of the middle pile was the 6 of clubs, but in fact the one I picked up later was the 8 of spades. Then I guessed the last card was the 8 of spades, and the last card I picked up was the 2 of hearts that I knew and said at the beginning."

After slowly explaining the whole process clearly, Tang Yuze gave Xia Jinxi some time to think. After more than ten seconds of thinking, Xia Jinxi finally understood.

"That is to say, every card my brother picked up was actually different from the one predicted at the time. The first card he picked up was the 6 of clubs, but he said it was the 2 of hearts he had known for a long time. The second card he picked up was the 8 of spades, but he insisted that it was the 6 of clubs. The third card he finally got was the 2 of hearts predicted in the first card, but he deliberately said it was the 8 of spades he saw in the second card. In fact, each wave of predictions was irrelevant, but in the end, the three cards shown were indeed these three cards."

"Yes, this is magic. Is it interesting?"

"Well... I was quite surprised when my brother showed me the three cards and they all came true, but after I knew the answer, it became boring and I felt like the magic was just so-so."

Xia Jinxi candidly shared her thoughts on her brother's performance.

“That’s right. The reason why many magic tricks are considered miracles is that their principles are not understood by the world. People don’t know what’s inside, so they think they are cool and amazing.

“But after you peel off the cool exterior, it’s just so-so.”

Therefore, the joy of the audience watching magic lies in experiencing the miracle and exposing the miracle, but magicians do not like the audience who expose the miracle.

This kind of entry-level magic trick is not a big deal, but when it comes to their own original magic show, magicians are very afraid that they will be exposed the next day just after performing it the first day.

For them, having their painstakingly developed techniques exposed by the audience is no different from running naked on stage.