A new TikTok card trick is blowingmillions of users’ minds.
It’s all thanks to auser named Micah Tilton (@its_tilton).In mid-July, Tilton posted a video of a “game” that canalmost always predict a player’s answer.
How?
Math.The trick begins with a grid of nine cards —each marked with a different symbol.He starts by asking you to pick onecard — then, each round, he tells you tomove spaces a set number of times.After each round, he removes oneof the cards.
Then he repeats the processuntil there’s just one card left.“How is that possible?” one user wrote.“He read me like a book,” another added.As Tillton reveals in a follow-up video,the answer lies in how many times he asks youto “change” your card each round.Every card in the grid is marked on the back —four are white, and five are black.
The game,thanks to Tilton, always starts with a playerpicking a white card.From there, he forces them to move squares eitheran even number of times or an odd number of times.If they move an odd number, they’ll end upchanging colors.
If they move an even number, they’re guaranteed to stay on a square of the same color.So, all Tilton has to do is eliminate a card basedon where he knows the player can’t be
