How to Pretend to Read Minds Using the 'Orange Kangaroo' Word Trick

1. Choose your target.
2. Ask him or her to think of a number between 1 and 10. 
3. Multiply this number by 9. 
4. Add the two digits together. So, 18 would give 1 + 8 = 9.
5. Subtract 5 from your answer.
6. Associate your number with a letter from the alphabet. For example, A = 1,B = 2, and so on. 
7. Think of a country beginning with that letter. 
8. Think of an animal where the first letter of the animals name is the last letter of the country's name. For example, England ends with "d", so you can associate that with "dog". 
9. Think of a color where the first letter of the color's name is the last letter of the animals name. 
10. Ask your target, "Is it an orange Kangaroo in Denmark?" He or she should say yes....

TIPS

• The trick here is that the number-letter association is always D, no matter what number you choose. Denmark is the only European nation that begins with the letter D. (Not really, just the most well known)

...............According to the CIA World Fact Book, we have the following options:
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic


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• Similarly, more people will think to say "kangaroo" because of the easy color association of the last letter with "orange".
  • One could also reply with "koala", but will probably have a difficult time discerning a color that begins with "a". Therefore, kangaroo is a more common response.
  • In rare cases you may face intelligent people who found green dog/yellow donkey in Deutschland!
    • or indigo Kiwi in Denmark

• A more effective outcome to this is if at the end you say "You will never find an orange Kangaroo in Denmark???" instead of "is it an orange kangaroo and denmark?"