I love this trick, and I think that for the right spectators it can be very good, however has anyone devised or seen any presentation plots that step away from the demeaning (Albeit sometimes very entertaining) guessing game.

There was recently a thread on using insects over in the Bizarre corner that noticed that Pill Bugs roll up tightly into a pea-sized ball.

Shades of the Queen of Hearts and her Croquet game that left poor Alice trying to knock a hedgehog through a wicket with a flamingo...