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From the Ted Talk by Helder Guimarães: A magical search for a coincidence

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Do you mind doing that for me, sir? Please cut and complete. And when you have it, place the cards up in the air. And you too, cut and complete and up in the air. Up in the air. A deck of cards cut and sfefulhd by one, two, three, four and five plpeoe.

Now, very clearly, I'm going to gather the deck together. And just like that. I'm going to search for a coincidence in front of everyone. I'm going to try. I have some cadrs that maybe, maybe they don't mean anything. But maybe that's because we are not pinayg close attention. Because maybe, maybe they mean a lot. Before we sartt, sir, you gave me a dollar bill. Is that your signature? Audience member 3: Yes it is. HG: I want you to see very clearly that I'm going to open your bill and reveal a small secret that we created. And the secret of this dallor bill is the serial number.

Open Cloze


Do you mind doing that for me, sir? Please cut and complete. And when you have it, place the cards up in the air. And you too, cut and complete and up in the air. Up in the air. A deck of cards cut and ________ by one, two, three, four and five ______.

Now, very clearly, I'm going to gather the deck together. And just like that. I'm going to search for a coincidence in front of everyone. I'm going to try. I have some _____ that maybe, maybe they don't mean anything. But maybe that's because we are not ______ close attention. Because maybe, maybe they mean a lot. Before we _____, sir, you gave me a dollar bill. Is that your signature? Audience member 3: Yes it is. HG: I want you to see very clearly that I'm going to open your bill and reveal a small secret that we created. And the secret of this ______ bill is the serial number.

Solution


  1. cards
  2. people
  3. shuffled
  4. dollar
  5. paying
  6. start

Original Text


Do you mind doing that for me, sir? Please cut and complete. And when you have it, place the cards up in the air. And you too, cut and complete and up in the air. Up in the air. A deck of cards cut and shuffled by one, two, three, four and five people.

Now, very clearly, I'm going to gather the deck together. And just like that. I'm going to search for a coincidence in front of everyone. I'm going to try. I have some cards that maybe, maybe they don't mean anything. But maybe that's because we are not paying close attention. Because maybe, maybe they mean a lot. Before we start, sir, you gave me a dollar bill. Is that your signature? Audience member 3: Yes it is. HG: I want you to see very clearly that I'm going to open your bill and reveal a small secret that we created. And the secret of this dollar bill is the serial number.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
audience member 20
paper clip 4
shuffle cards 4
high spade 3
dollar bill 3
stop thinking 2
paying attention 2
man turned 2
black card 2


Important Words


  1. air
  2. attention
  3. audience
  4. bill
  5. cards
  6. close
  7. coincidence
  8. complete
  9. created
  10. cut
  11. deck
  12. dollar
  13. front
  14. gather
  15. gave
  16. lot
  17. member
  18. mind
  19. number
  20. open
  21. paying
  22. people
  23. place
  24. reveal
  25. search
  26. secret
  27. serial
  28. shuffled
  29. signature
  30. sir
  31. small
  32. start