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The great Gumbini Inner circle 3062 Posts |
I'm posting here to see if any one has suggestions for me. An idea for a book test came to me the other day and it is very clever. It will use 3 to 5 magazines and it will go like this. Spectator selects one of the magazines (free choice) and picks a page. They go to that page and are asked to silently remember the first word or last. They now open each of the remaining magazines and turn to the same page to verify they are indeed different. It is pointed out by the mentalist had they chose any of these other magazines and that page number the word would have been different. ALL the magazines are in fact different from one another. After these magazines are closed by the spectator the mentalist using whatever method he desires is able to tell the spectator the word they are thinking of.
Now here is something to keep in mind. The word will be different every time. The magazines are different and no duplicated pages. No numbered systems to memorize. No extra crib sheets to haul around. No fishing. And you will be right 100% of the time. Now here is my problem. I have NEVER invented anything before at all. I have no idea where to start. I know I will need to have the magazines made but where do I go for this? I'd love to use TIME, GQ, etc. but will I have to get their permission? I'm at ground zero here folks. And I know this is a great book test. I called and found out that there is not a book test out there like this. I wish there was because this is hot and easy. So anyone with any idea please PM me or I can PM you or just put it on the post and I will be very grateful to you. Thank you very very much. Good magic to all, Eric |
The great Gumbini Inner circle 3062 Posts |
Oh one thing I forgot to mention is the magazines will live up to a real good inspection by the audience. They can be examined and the chances of the secret being discovered is practically ZERO. I only say practically zero because let's face it in the realm of possibilities it could happen---but I truly doubt it will. And if that were not enough even though you will have all 5 magazines you can have any 2 or 3 or 4 chosen if you want and you will still be able to perform this. So you can use any number of the magazines and it will work as well. But my guess is most will use all 5. And you can instantly repeat this.
I will say one more thing about The great Gumbini book test and I'm not bragging but it will probably be your favorite. I know I have tried several and liked them---but I would do this one every time if it were out there. I'm so excited about this so please if you have anything you think would help, let me know. Thanks again. Good magic to all, Eric |
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