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Black Magic

The guesser and the giver work together in this game. To play "Black Magic" you have one person, the "guesser", close their eyes or face away from the group. Then, another person, the "giver", silently points an object out to everyone else in the room. This object is now an "it" that the guesser has to guess.

Have the guesser turn around. The giver points to many objects in the room asking if the object is "it." The secret is, none of the objects are "it" until after the giver points to something black (a person's shirt, watch, phone, anything black). The object immediately after is the "it" in question.

For example...

Giver: "Is it this Cheerios box?"
Guesser: "no"
Giver: "Is it my (black) boots?"
Guesser: "no"
Giver: "Is it this soda can?"
Guesser: "yes"

This should drive everyone in the room crazy trying to crack the code!

Comments

friends were being so annoying and not telling me how to play. I got fed up and looked at this. thanks:)

I freaked out when my family showed me the game

OMG I thought that this was a guessing game and i didn't know that was the trick!

My friend was soo annoying about and would make me figure it out

How do you know what the “it” is though ?!

what's the trick tho?

The “ it” is the object after they say something that is black

I know! The object comes after the black object!

I looked this up as we're playing it at my theater.
Lol

Lol was it a theater camp ? Call triple threat ? 😂😂

Me to

Wow easy kinda<3:):

I didn’t get how to guess

This is a fire camp classic! Some guys have been trying for a couple years to figure it out

But its rlly easy i knew it the first few times i played the game

Easy

I go to fire camp YMCA camp I played this game and I was so confused lol

So fun

Finally I know how this works

Omg same

How does it work I don't understand

I got it right away

that game is so tricky and so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so harddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

cool!:D

Ha! I watched people play this at a camp and I was SO close with my guess on how to do it! Awesome game, and good directions as well. :P

when i played this game the teacher picked only one and told him how the game works. then we kept on playing i thought the one who got him told him what we are looking for !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why would you give the secret away? The whole point of the game is for people to figure it out themselves. Once you know the secret you never divulge it. EVER!

People want to know how to play. You aren't the only person on this Earth !!

I use to play this at panda camp and I never knew how to play

what

thats what i thought but all the other comments seem to understand, i just thought i was thick lol

can some one please send me a picture of this game the box.

it doesnt have a box

this is so cool a lot of youth kids at my church play this and won't tell us the secret but now i know it

amazing<3:D

8|:D:)

I don't get it

I was so lost when I first played this

this is awesome for some weeks i coudn't guess what it is8|

Ima so happy! :')

Ahhh ok so that's the trick I couldn't figure out how to play till I met this website

It drove me mad but still a brill game x

unknown

omqee we played this in class and i just had a ball

Finally! I was looking forever how to play this!!! YAY

ive been looking on how 2 play this game for ages!!! this is the ONLY ONE that ACTUALLY makes sense!!! THANK YOU!!

dont think it is the best!

not for everybody to look at dont need it at all

wow i played this today and only one girl know who to play it!! drove everyone insane!!!

OMG! i feel so stupid thanks SO much :)

thank you soo much, i was looking for a game to teese the kidas with at camp, and now ive found it

i dont get it

thank you very much I NEEDED to know how to play it cuz I went crazy today our teacher played it with one of the students and the class went craaazy thank you thank you thank you

Kenny

Thank you for telling me how to play!

finally iv'e cracked the code! now for revenge!!!

thanks i

very interesting... yet very sneaky... AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

Becky

ok if u dony get it you say some things that aint black then say something black and after that one say what your iteam was make sure that isnt black ok!

sooo happy!

my youth group minister said it wasn't cool to look up how you played it, just to figure it out, but i couldn't help myself! people had already figured it out and yah. thanks!!!

my friend Elena (not in my grade) taught me. me and my two guy friends Noah and William know it, but we are the only people in the grade. i love messing with my other friends' minds!!!!

This game is awesome lol so funny my friends dont no how to play this

FINALLY I GET IT!

wow thanks for this solution to a game i've been wondering about for years

THANKYOU !!!! ive been wondering how to play Black magic for nearly 3 years now !! OMG !!!!!! YOU ARE THE BESTEST IN THE WORLD !!!!!!

we played this game in my logic class 2day. the girl acted like she didn't want 2 tell us how it went but the other boy in the class told us how they did it. he was the one guessing

oh my gosh!finally i get it!yay!my friends have been playing this game for like my whole life and i still don't get it.yay!thank you. :DD

thanks noe i know how to play

I played this game like 5 times and still did not get it when i asked them for a hint they were like you are thinking to much!! And other times the problem is that I need to think more!! Can you belive it?

chloe

omg that is the best game i have ever herd of

ok i just played this game today for the first time and it litarally made me go crazy!!!!! i could not figure out what was the trick of the game but as soon as i got home i decided to google it and now that i kno i just say to my self why didnt i think of that....and i thought i was paying attention very carefully but i never got it after all those times guessing!!!now i kno!!!:)

Casey

I was plying this at school w/ my friends, and i could not figure out the game. It was driving me crazy. I begged my friends to tell me none of them would, now I know.

i thought it had to do some thing with a color. and it is after every color

We play this game at school and everyone racks their brains for the secret! It is JOKES!!

We played this game for fun in my brother's birthday it was fun and i never get it tell after two day i when to net and fine it.

How do you get it on the first guess though?

Rachael

woo i played it onna skl trip to spain and i was well :S lol that rules

ya you can swich the code around you dont have to keep it it had me for 9 hours then i got it

Blondie

I realy dont get it can sum1 explain dis in litl wordz pleaz thanx!!!!! luv Blondie

symnsy

yeah dis makes it easy but it doesnt tell u how it works

my friends were making me mad doing this game so now that i know how to play im gonna shock the world yea

Annie Thompson

When I first played the game I was totally confused, but after a week I figured it out. I kept bugging my friends who knew the trick, but they wouldn't tell me!!!

the first time i played this game i was wondering how they did it it was just amazing and now i know how to
play the game !! :D

I've benn tying to figure out how to play this game since the second grade and now I'm in the seventh and i just thought of going to google and asking

Jacklin

OMGOSH My prime time teacher always plays this game and my HOLE primetime new how to BUT ME. I kept asking how to play but NO ONE WOULD TELL ME it was driving me CRAZY now i know and I wont go crazy lol

woot woot i get it know, we played with people and i thought it was a person as an it, i used to think it was a person with black hair but now i understand

im so glad i found this..my team was like playing this and saying you'll never figure it out.haha ill show them

You didn't figure it out. You cheated and looked it up...

Cat

The guys in my class were playing this after school and I was totally baffeled! They had gotten so good at it that they were naming stuff that we couldnt even see! I was like, what!?! But now I know the secret! Man, I can't wait till school to trick them! he he!!

Dominic

We are in iraq right now and my buddies play that damn game all the time and i never could figure it out. i thought the answer to it was right under my nose. losers.

Jessica

luv it im going 2 try 2 trick my freinds 2mmorow @ skool lol i wonder if theyll ever crack the code with the comments ive read it seems that this game is really hard 2 crack and it mite get them frustrated but im still gonna try it i cant wait!!!!!

salsa

this game is hard and i can rub it in my teachers face

Wkhs

When my friends started playing this game during lunch i was confused.. so i checked the net and one of my other friends gave me 50c to tell him how to play... LOLZERS OMGPWNED!

what is the sercret

ash

AWW MAN, MY TEACHER WAS DOIN THIS AND I GOT SO MAD CUZ I DIDNT KNOW< THANK YOU> IMMA FOOL THEM TOMMOROW..lol

lil blondii

omg i was @ a birthday party and we were playing that and it was driving me crazy that i didn't know the trick but now i know so i can't wait till i play it with my friends!!!!! thx so much!

Blacklight

We were just playing this game today at a rehearsal for a play, which has a magician in it. Really cool!

i still dont get it!

I played this with my ex and his friends at a gathering, it killed me not to know how it worked. Only three of them knew the game and they were the only three who left knowing it! They said they've even played it over the phone before!

I played this game in school and i got so angry i had 2 google it! lol

sarah

yes!! finally my friends have been driving me crazy.. i've been trying to figure out this game and i couldn't until now! even though i cheated.. its still worth it because now i know!

this isnt so bad my friend and i made up things like that and it drove us crazy

My spanish teacher got us crazy over this one today in school and she said tho think it over over the weekend (for those who didnt figure them out in class) so I googled it and found this. Thank you !!!

CASS

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PryKnight

my teacher played this w/ the class an it drove me crazy trying to figure it out!!!
thanx a freakn bunch!!:)

now i can rub it in my friends face that wouldnt tell me how to play! thanks!

Nneka

this game was driving me NUTS my drama teacher played it with us and only one student got it. thanks to this site i can now be confident when playing.

It is the most awesome game! I've played it at camp tons of times-- it's always funny to see how newcomers try and figure out the trick! It seems so complicated, but really it's simple!

i don't get it!

Josh

OMG!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been trying to figure out this game since 5th grade!! My teacher played it and i was the only one in the class who never got it! :( It haunted me for years cause noone would tell me!! Not even my best friend, who was one of the classmates that got it. It is only NOW.... My senior year of high school when i get smart enough to google it in :( Anyway thanks SO) MUCH!! :D

Mariam

THANKS A MILLION!!:D:D:D my day camp always play this and i never got it now i get it!:D thank you! :D
Mariam

This game really still confuses me, only because my friends play it but sumtimes, the first choice is the object and the guesser's guess is the right one, now that is what ii don't understand

Wow! FAB!

brooke

sweet no one in my summer camp

my summercamp teachers were compleatley
confusing me now i get it

yay i finnally get it woot!

miCOOL

thank you!!! i've been going crazy on how the game worked because my cousins did it to me all night at a party. i actually had to look it up, lol, but at least now i know and can sleep peacefully!

jonny

thank god i knw now i was goin crazy

OMIGASSHH! =D=D i kept saying that to my friends but they kept telling me i was wrong, lossars=P well thankyoooh!

this information was great!!!!! if it wasnt for this website I whouldnt be able tochat on black magic

Thanks!!! Our sub-teacher started playing this game and everyone was puzzled. She gave away the game so many times and none of us could understand (she would say is it the stapeler (which was black) and then she would always point to the object that was "it". I now know how to play, even though I cheated and went on the net..but oh well!!!

thank you we palyed it at school and could not figure it out

annonomus

it good iv played it for ages but my mate wanted to know how you played it and now he knows

I wanna know

always guessin

OMG! my cousins were playin dat game wit my all nite and i was wonderin how they did it! it drove me crazy coz i knew there was a code. i was researchin how to play the game and now i know. hahaha...now i can get back @ them. thx!