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Hmmm... you're both making me reconsider the Any Word on Any Object effect. May have to try it again this week.

Blapsing_Beard wrote:haha - I meant the same object different words - my mistake there!

On a seperate note, LIT is becoming a staple in my act now...I brought another, and with a different lock I can do it now, so thankyou for an amazing idea Paul - it is very good!

Back onto CoaP, the any word any object is my favourite thing attempted thus far. I haven't even contemplated even thinking about considering learning the tour yet! Though I am looking forward to nailing it...not neccessarily for the tour itself yet, but for all the otehr effects that come along with it

Chris, you gotta get 'Code Read' down pat. It is the perfect follow up to AWOAO. In fact I will soon be posting up the AWOAO and Code Read common object lists on my forum.

I am even considering a mobile phone database so that at the perfect moment the performer will be able to say "oh got a text, hold on" then search through the database of words/numbers.

Really glad you are liking LIT as I know at first you were not the biggest fan. Which shocked me as you really seemed to be stunned by it when I performed it to you a while ago. I am never without mine, always on my keyring.

Cheers,

-Paul

Harry Guinness wrote:Hmmm... you're both making me reconsider the Any Word on Any Object effect. May have to try it again this week.

It is worth a rethink.

This is one of those effects that i have shared with a few professionals in the past. At first the response is normally, "Oh yeah, I guess you could do that, nice idea." Then had a few of them get back to me months later with a message along the lines of:

"You know what, someone caught me off guard and asked me to show them something, but I had nothing on me. I did the AWOAO and it blew them away, I just didn't think it would be that strong!"

Obviously this is a paraphrase, but that was the general gist of the messages.

I think this effect is one effect that can be easily dismissed and looked over. But if you try it out a few times it is really strong. Personally, I think the strength lies in the use of a person's own object, or an object that you could not have possibly set up or influenced (public signs).

Try it, you might like it (quote: some advert about something)

Cheers,

-Paul

I generally am not a CUPs sufferer, but I really just want to read this book. God knows if I would get anything out of it!

Lenoir wrote:I generally am not a CUPs sufferer, but I really just want to read this book. God knows if I would get anything out of it!

I mean it is totally your BUY IT choice if you want to purchase BUY IT the book and you may find some useful BUY IT messages in there somewhere

I have just finished, if that is possible, Harry Loraynes Super Power Memory book and just the sound of The Knight's Tour makes me...well. Eroticized.

Lenoir wrote:I have just finished, if that is possible, Harry Loraynes Super Power Memory book and just the sound of The Knight's Tour makes me...well. Eroticized.

If you have been working on memory systems then I think you will get a lot out of this book. Especially the 'Breaking Open the Knight's Tour' section. This will enable you to perform a number of large effects just from knowing the Knight's Tour sequence.

This is right up your street.

indeed. With LIT I just had a dodgy lock. It would sometimes work, and often give me the wrong code. I brought a new one off of a member of the forum, at voilà! Easy as pie, and in this one has an extra subtletie making it even less likely to get caught

I fair rocketed through this. Enjoyed the thinking behind Knight's Tour, both in terms of ways of presenting it and breaking it out into other effects. A thought occured to me with the supermemory effect, where you leave a space or some other discreet marker after the first KT number; i.e. "1 1121410..." "25 3550604539" and so on. That would allow you to have a free choice of 64 possible sequences.

I'm pursuing the Wasshuber technique for the Knight's Tour at the moment, as much as a test for myself as something that I would eventually perform, but wouldn't be checking it out at all were it not for the section in Chrysalis, and Paul's presentation ideas are totally transferrable. I'd advise checking out some actual Radio 4 science and maths documentaries before scripting up the audio for presentation. I'd also advise trying to match the way in which these documentaries are made, rather than script the whole thing to the letter - make up some bullet points of info to cover, record an improvised interview to cover the points, then script the "in studio" sections and chop the whole lot together. But who am I to speak?

And I defy anyone to work through the Day For Any Date chapter and not have the ability memorised and at least a decent level of accuracy. I found this site which is quite handy to practice. It's also worth looking at the method they teach for calculating it, as it's testament to how easy Chrysalis has made it.

Fancy a Google coinkydinky?

We've just recruited a new bassist, and now we're writing in a snug little chrysalis. I think we'll emerge a much harder Polymath. Only with delicate wings.

That is a great link to practice the DOAD, thanks.

Also, is that band somehow subliminally selling my book how did you find them?


Cheers,

-Paul

Amazing - this thread is only 20 days old yet has had over 750 views already!

It was a lazy title check. I couldn't remember if it was "A Polymath" or "The Polymath" when posting in another thread.

Mandrake wrote:Amazing - this thread is only 20 days old yet has had over 750 views already!

It's either voyeurs, OR, people waiting for more review style reviews *hint* lol

Paul Brook wrote:It's either voyeurs, OR, people waiting for more review style reviews *hint* lol

Or people knowing a good thing when they see it!

This kind of book is normally not my kind of thing, but in a curious twist of fate I have had my interest in the magic of numbers stoked up by another (lesser) publication. Then after meeting Paul on a couple of occasions (and finding him to be a thoroughly nice man) I decided to take the plunge and get the book. I have to say that this book will be a very valuable tool to me in the future. There are at least 4 separate routines that I fully intend using on a new project I'm planning for the future (well, one can't spend all his life talking to dead people can he?).

I promise that buying this book will be money very well spent. Don't be put off by the numbers element of this book. It is not in any way dry or boring - this book really does show that mathematics based magic can be fun, upbeat and entertaining. A real masterpiece. Buy now!

Bravo Paul!

And yes, one day I will master the tour!