Step 1:            Give your volunteer a deck of cards to shuffle and you turn your back

Step 2:            Have your volunteer look at the top card and places it back on top of the pile

Step 3:            You tell your volunteer to place as many cards as the card’s number value on top of the deck (King is 13, Queen is 12, Jack is 11, Ace is 1)

Step 4:            Take the deck from your volunteer, and starting with the second card, count mentally up from one (the card that your volunteer chooses will be the same card value that matches the magician’s count – if he/she chose a 6, the seventh card will be a 6 – you can then tell your volunteer that this is his/her card)

Step 1:            Draw three lines on a piece of paper

Step 2:            Give three dice to your volunteer

Step 3:            Turn your back and your volunteer write a number on the top line

Step 4:            Have your volunteer roll the three dice, add up the numbers on the top of the dice, and then write that number on the second line

Step 5:            Have your volunteer add the numbers on the bottom of the dice and write that number on the third line

Step 6:            Have your volunteer add up all three lines and tell you the sum (the number on the tops and bottoms of the dice added together will always equal 21)

Step 7:            Subtract the number 21 from the total your volunteer has given you and “guess their answer”

Step 1:          Start with two sheets of paper and one black marker

Step 2:           In preparation for the trick, write “1089″ on a sheet of paper, fold it over, and write “Prediction” on the outside

Step 3:            Ask a volunteer to write a three-digit number in between 100 and 999 where all three digits are different

Step 4:          Have your volunteer then reverse the digits, and subtract the bottom number from the top

Step 5:          Then have your volunteer reverse the digits of the solution and write it underneath

Step 6:          Now have your volunteer add the two numbers (the answer will be 1089)

Step 7:          Show your audience the “prediction” that you made beforehand

Note: The result will always be 1089. 
If at any point an answer is 99, make sure it is written as 099 so that the reverse will be 990.

Step 1:       Think of any number (call this the “Starting Number”)

Step 2:       Double the number

Step 3:       Add 9

Step 4:       Subtract 3

Step 5:       Divide the result by 2

Step 6:       Subtract this number from the Starting Number

Answer: 3

Step 1:        Multiply the first number of the age by 5 (Note: If the age is less than 10, then add a zero in front of the age (example: age 5 = 05)

Step 2:       Add 3 to the result

Step 3:       Double the answer

Step 4:       Add the second digit of the number with the result

Step 5:       Subtract 6 from it

Answer: That is your age!

Step 1:       Add 18 to your birth month

Step 2:       Multiply by 25

Step 3:       Subtract 333

Step 4:       Multiply by 8

Step 5:       Subtract 554

Step 6:       Divide by 2

Step 7:       Add your birth date

Step 8:       Multiply by 5

Step 9:       Add 692

Step 10:      Multiply by 20

Step 11:      Add only the last two digits of your birth year

Step 12:      Subtract 32940 to get your birthday!

3rd Grade:
1st Place – Seth Fogelsonger
2nd Place –  Jerry Zhao
3rd Place –  Joshua Karty

4th Grade:
1st Place – Christian Williams
2nd Place – Garrison Bullard
3rd Place – Alvin Mutongi

5th Grade:
1st Place – Devon Troester
2nd Place – Nilay Agarwalla
3rd Place – Gandhar Madadeshwar

6th Grade: 
1st Place – Holly McCann
2nd Place – Sabrina Tran
3rd Place – Minsub Song

7th Grade:
1st Place – Amanda Glen
2nd Place – Nolan Wheeler
3rd Place –  Yongqi Gan