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From: daz_rythmn
Date: Fri Feb 22, 2002 9:02am
Subject: Re: Book Test 1
A bit of research:-
A Simple Book
Test
Many mentalists and magicians use a book test in
their act. (I
do.)
Here's one that you can
easily do:
Effect: Give someone a paperback
book. As them to hold the
book behind their back
and open to a page. (Even they can't
see their
page selection.) Hand them a thin marker and tell
them to draw an "X" on one of the pages.
Telling them to close the book and to hold it between
their
hands, you take the marker and write a
prediction.
Ask your friend to open the book and
find the marked page.
One word has the "X" through
it. You open your prediction -
they match!
(The Secret)
What you need:
1.A
paperback book.
2.A small piece of paper.
3.Two
thin marking pens (like a Flair) the same color.
The Preparation:
Take the paperback book
and find a page near the center of
the book with
words covering the entire page. Take one of the
pens and draw an "X" across the page. Don't be neat;
this has
to look as if someone drew it behind his
back. (You may even
want to draw it
off-center!)
Note the word that the "X" intersects and write
that word on
the small piece of paper.
Take the other pen and dry it out. Some pens allow you
to
remove the center felt or the ink. Any way you
can dry it out so
it no longer writes. Or, just
coat the tip in wax or white glue.
As long as it
won't write.
To Perform:
Place the
prediction in your pants pocket. Put the pen that
doesn't write and the "working" pen in your inner coat
pocket.
Hand your friend the paperback book and instruct
him to hold
it behind his back and to open it
somewhere near the center.
When he has done that,
tell him to take the pen from you
(hand him the
one that doesn't write) and to make a big "X"
across the face of the page. (Remember, he cannot see
what he
is doing; he can't see the page or that
the pen isn't writing
anything.)
After he
has done that, retrieve the pen and tell him to
close
the book, bring it in front, and to hold it
between his hands.
You take the paper from your
pocket and pretend to write a
word on it. Look as
though you are concentrating, but don't
"ham it up".
Put the pen away in the same pocket as the
"working" pen.
Now, tell your friend to fan through
the book to look for the
"X". Ask him to read
aloud the word which is crossed by the
"X". He does
and you show him your "written" prediction! They,
of course match.
By the way, if you need to
use a pen, take out the "working"
pen!
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