Pea Shell In Pod Double-Bind Trick

Hoodwinked I blinked, and the magician winked. In a flash, the feint of hand trick had worked. My eyes diverted, led by the nose to look away diverted by hand gesture. Eye beguiled to follow where the magician's eye was looking. When I looked back the three shell covers, with pea under one, looked untouched, unmoved. But he knew I had been duped, tricked and bamboozled. So which shell had been swapped and switched? The trick was to know if the trickster knew that I knew he had time to swap the shells around while my gaze was averted. But perhaps his hand had passed over the shells, moving neither pea nor pod. Perhaps this was the true trick, after all. A blind double-bind act, knowing he knew I knew the feint of hand trick. I looked the magician right in the eye, binding his eye to mine ensnared. Slowly I crept a finger towards the shell that the magician had podded the pea under, right at the start. To my delight, I saw the magician's eye sigh just slightly, ceding defeat. My blind double-bind mind game had worked a treat.