4. THE KNIGHT’S TOUR
This is another favorite and very effective feat with which to conclude a mind reading test. Rule off one side of the blackboard or one of the sheets of paper into sixty-four squares, to represent a chess board. Show this and announce that your subject will call a knight’s tour all over the board, visiting every square once only and beginning with any numbered square that the audience selects. For the benefit of those not knowing the game of chess, you demonstrate briefly the manner in which a knight can move. A number is then called and, as the medium calls the moves, the operator draws a line from the starting point to the square called and from that square to the next one she names, and so on until every square on the board is thus connected.
To be able to do this the lady must memorize the following list of numbers or, since this is a difficult task, she may have them written on a card fastened to the back of her fan or concealed by her handkerchief:
27, 17, 2, 12, 22, 32, 15, 5, 20, 26, 9, 3, 13, 7, 24, 30, 40, 55, 61, 46, 29, 14, 8, 3, 6, 16, 31, 21, 11, 1, 18, 28, 38, 48, 63, 53, 43, 33, 50, 60, 45, 39, 56, 62, 52, 58, 41, 35, 25, 10, 4, 19, 36, 51, 57, 42, 59, 49, 34, 44, 54, 64, 47, 37, and back to 27.
All she has to do then is to find the number called by the spectator, start with that number, and go straight ahead until every number has been called and she is back to the starting point.
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