The EffectThey Say:
After openly asking six members of the audience to write down “Any random word” on to a piece of card each, the cards are collected and given to your on stage participant.
The smily, bright eyed, attractive young lady is asked to look through the six words, and if by any chance any of the words happen to be the same, discard it from her mind but to look over all of the cards, “they are all different words, right?”
“Yes” she replies.
“Go ahead and secretly chose one. But please, this choice is important. It is yours, it must be a choice you are making right now, consciously looking at the different words and decide which one you would like to go with.
“Before you make your decision, there is one word inside of this envelope, I’m hoping to have influenced one of these six people to think of this word, and now I’m hoping to guide you right to it.
So this choice, is pretty important.”
She secretly chooses a word.
The word is the ONLY one in the envelope and the envelope can be given away.
Cost£37 from
http://mentalunderground.com/mentalism-e-books/e1/" target="_blank
Difficulty(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
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ReviewOk, yes this is £37 for one method. However, bear in mind that this is a professional piece of mentalism from Ken's act he performs for corporate clients. How good is this? After reading through once i began to arrange to get the pieces needed to perform this to put into my 2013 stage show (i may do this during my Christmas corporate shows as well). What we have here is a professional, strong, commercial and easy piece of mentalism that really packs a punch. This is a great routine in itself that can be adapted, the reveal of the word is what this is really all about and it is such a clever method, it's very clever in fact and one that you will love using.
The method / routine is very easy to perform and i cannot see anyone struggling with this. You do need a few things but nothing hard to get or make yourself, you do not need any magical props for this. There is no real performance script in the PDF (39 pages) but it does not need it as the method is the most important thing here. Ken has produced some great material all from his shows and this is his best release since Whisper (which i adore and use in every stage show and even a parlour show). I hope people will not be put off by the price, you have to understand that this is a professional piece and you get a solid method here.
Although Kennedy designed this as a stage piece you can do this at tables (in a different form which he mentions), i am going to be working on the table version next week , this will also work as a casual piece that you can keep in your jacket pocket.
Overall10/10 Solid piece that many will use