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

Last Updated: September 21, 2022

The "Orange Kangaroo" word trick provides a fun and easy way to convince your friends that you can read their minds. All you have to do is ask a series of questions related to numbers and letters, all of which will almost inevitably lead a person to think of the words "orange" and "kangaroo" at the end. Once you master this set of questions, all of your friends will be awed by your magical powers.

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Make sure your target doesn't say it aloud.
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So, 18 would give 1 + 8 = 9.
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For example, A = 1,B = 2, and so on.
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For example, England ends with "d", so you can associate that with "dog".
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He or she should say yes....

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What if they totally do it wrong and mess it up?

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That's okay. It will happen occasionally. Just tell them that the trick works on most people, but they apparently think differently than most people.

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What do you do if they say no...?

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Say "What was it then?" If it was close to an orange kangaroo in Denmark, say "It is hard to mind read sometimes." if it's nothing like it, congratulate the person for being an "out of the box" thinker.

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If they can't say the number out loud, then how can you do the trick?

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It doesn't matter. Every number multiplied by 9 brings you to 9, when you sum up the digits (18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63 72).

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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?"

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The trick here is that the number-letter association is always D, no matter what number you choose.

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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 Germany/Deutschland!
  - or indigo Kiwi in Denmark
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If you try doing this trick on too many people, it will get easily figured out. Remember to try on a variety of different people!

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Remember that there are other countries beginning with 'D' such as Djibouti.

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