If any one here has a copy of this book
could you please PM me?
Thanks in advance,
Yaniv Deautsch

I have the "Book of Oopses" and have sent you a second PM about it. If anyone else is interested, it's a curious book aimed at the general public: it's not a magic book.
Chan Canasta: great performer, great man.

Hey Alan, can you tell us more about the Canasta'Book of Oopses" I recall reading about it but would be interested in knowing more. Thanks in advance and as always,

Best thoughts,
John Smetana

The Book of Oopses is largely a series of experiments that reads the readers mind.

Quentin is right. It was a book produced for the general public (definitely not a magic book) in the 1960s and out of print for a long time. Red and white printing on black pages. There were a series of tests: you would be asked to think of something on a page (a word, number, shape, or something similar) and Canasta had put what he thought you would pick in a section at the end. There were two kinds of tset, roughly alternating: sure-fire mathematical ones, and purely psychological ones. This dichotomy would not have been obvious to most members of the public. He would be wrong with some of the psychological ones, hence the name "oopses".

Some of the psychological ones were quite interesting and were heavily dependendent on the spatial disposition of various things (numbers, shapes, ...) on the page.

An intriguing curiosity. I found mine in a second-hand book shop: it had been misclassified under card games (you probably know tha canasta is a rummy-like card game).

Has anyone seen the book "The Cube"? It might interest some of you. Its basically a psychological game where you or someone is asked to imagine a series of images. How they imagine these images together forms a kind of reading which you refrain from looking up till after you've played the game. It's quite good and a good quick reading can be got from it.

Im sure it could be taken further to create a complete effect from?

Anyway its pretty cheap and you could get it from Amazon.

"The Cube" by Gottlieb & Pesic

If you would like to play "The Cube" online, you can visit my website at: http://www.elementalent.com/cube.htm

If you enjoy the exercise, then I recommend that you pick up the book for further insights into this fascinating game.