# How Kreskin at al find hidden paychecks

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-kreskin-at-al-find-hidden-paychecks/1011561>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 12, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-kreskin-at-al-find-hidden-paychecks/1011561 "2024-12-12T16:15:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-kreskin-at-al-find-hidden-paychecks/1011561/1 "2024-12-12T16:15:51Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [The Amazing Kreskin dead at 89](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-kreskin-dead-at-89/1011501/14):

This shouldn’t fill up Kreskin’s obituary thread.

> [@The Amazing Kreskin dead at 89](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-kreskin-dead-at-89/1011501/14):
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> How does the trick work where he finds his check out in the audience? I’ve seen him do it and it is pretty well done.

> [@The Amazing Kreskin dead at 89](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-kreskin-dead-at-89/1011501/16):
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> He knows where the check is.

> [@The Amazing Kreskin dead at 89](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-kreskin-dead-at-89/1011501/17):
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> It’s a stooge trick?

> [@The Amazing Kreskin dead at 89](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-kreskin-dead-at-89/1011501/18):
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> The instances I read about were similar in having a theater manager hide the check or give it someone to hold, or go with an assumed uninterested party when they hid the check or gave it to someone to hold. That’s all I know about Kreskin doing it but it conforms with how that act has been performed by others.

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-kreskin-at-al-find-hidden-paychecks/1011561/2 "2024-12-12T16:19:41Z")

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> [@The Amazing Kreskin dead at 89](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-kreskin-dead-at-89/1011501/19):
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> Finding something hidden by using someone who knows where it is a common bit. They take the person by the hand and walk around with them while jiggling their hand. People tend to tense up when they realize they are going the wrong way. The magician can detect this and change their direction. It doesn’t take much to learn how to do this.

I have my doubts this is how it’s actually done. I’m not saying it can’t be done that way, but I find it unlikely performers will have their income dependent on that ability. I’d like to see a contract specifying the terms of such an agreement to forfeit pay on that basis.