I didn't want to say it. I did not want to say it. I was standing（站立） on stage in a luxury（奢侈） cruise（巡航） liner in front of a thousand people performing my magic and mentalism show and I didn't want to say it. You see, I had a spectator（观众） on stage and I was about to reveal（显示） what they were only thinking. But I knew as soon as I did, it would ruin（毁灭） the next ten minutes of my performance（履行）. And the worst part was this was the 13th show in a row（(一)排） that just happened.

  We'll come back to that in just a moment. But first, let's try to do something impossible with this little piece of paper in this box and with you. You're going to try to read my mind. And to do that, we're going to use this. This is a power ball of yarn（纱）. It's going to pick a few of you at random.

  So if I could get just a little bit of house lights, I'm going to toss（摇摆） this out. It's important this doesn't fall on the ground because it's going to make（使） a lovely garment down the road. Here it comes. Ready? Catch it. Oh, good catch（捕捉）.

  Very good. Could you stand up where you are if you don't mind? I need somebody to read some things. Do you need reading glasses or are you good? You're good. Can you just turn around and toss that ball to someone else?

  Good. Catch it. It's important to catch it and stand up when you catch it. But would you mind the first person here? Yes, would you join me here on stage? Come right up as everybody greets you with a nice applause（欢呼）.

  Right over here. You're going to write down some information here for us. We're going to write down six numbers. Five in a row, then one here. Okay（好）, we're going to call them out in a minute. But whoever（无论谁） has the ball now, I just want you to stand up if you don't mind.

  All right. Yes. I want you to try and just catch what I'm throwing to you mentally（精神上）. I'm sending you a number between one and 69. What is the number that's coming to your mind? 52.

  Write the number 52 nice and big. Toss the ball gently（有礼貌地） to someone else. Good. Catch it. Yes. Very good.

  Stand up if you don't mind. Good catch, by the way. A number between one and 69. Say it now. 45. Yeah, that's very good.

  Wonderful. Next person, just toss it to someone else. Nice and gentle（和蔼的）. Coming at you. Catch it. Very good.

  Stand up if you don't mind. A number between one and 69. The number three. The number three. Good. Toss it this way to someone else at random.

  Catch it. Very good. Stand up where you are. And a number between one and 69. What am I thinking? 32.

  32. That's the fourth number. Number 32. Again, once more. Toss it to someone else. Oh, that was almost a catch.

  It was very close. Good. Stand up. And a number between one and 69. The number 18 right there. And one more time.

  Toss it one more time to one other person. We're going to add the last number here. One, two, three, four, five. Stand up if you don't mind right there. Good. You're the power number as it were.

  I'm going to have you name only between one and 26. What number would you like? Number 25. Add that right here. Big and bold（大胆的）. You have the power ball of yarn.

  And that power ball of yarn now is yours to knit（编织） a lovely winter hat. Or as they say in Canada, a took. And you can grab（攫取） a seat right there if you don't mind. Very good. I'm going to have you come over to this side of the stage. We have here this plastic container（容器） with a note inside.

  I want you to take the note if you don't mind. And open it up and come to the microphone（扩音器） over here. And tell everybody what that is. It's a power ball ticket. It's a power ball ticket. And do you see what state it's from?

  Pennsylvania（宾夕法尼亚州（美国州名））. Pennsylvania. Yeah, very good. And the date is past. Yeah, back in July when I was invited here, I had it sent to me. July 15.

  Very good. Now（现在） the thing that we're most interested in is the numbers. So you're going to name those numbers out one at a time. Oh, there's the pen. You're going to call them out one at a time very clearly and go. Three.

  Three. 18. 18. 32. 32. 42.

  45. 45. 52. 52. And what's the power number? 25.

  25. Let's go. Thank you so much. You can take your seat. Big round（圆） of applause（欢呼）. Take her back to her seat.

  Yes. Thank you so very much. All right. That's the way we start. That's impossible. No, not what I did.

  Entertaining（使欢乐） you through mentalism is what I do. Winning the lottery（抽彩给奖法） is actually impossible. It's like（喜欢） 0%. I could predict it influenced（影响） you. But the Lotto machines, if I could, don't you think I would have done it already?