Mind-reading trick

[Azrael 5]

Garrette,I have that dvd(although I can't recall the effect right now).A PM pour qui??
That Directory test of Barrie Richardsons sounds a killer also.

 

[Grimoire]

Not me. I enjoy knowing how a trick is done. I find it enhances my appreciation of a performance.

Me too. I was envisioning half a dozen of different ways to do that trick. All of which were extremely elaborate (hidden cameras, microphones, numerous planted audience members, etc.). It never occurred to me that something as simple and elegant as a specially printed joke book would be used.

Some people feel "cheated" when they find out how a trick is done. "What? He used twins?! But that's cheating!" But me, half the time I know what they did it anyways. When I am tricked, and then find out how it was done, I enjoy it even more, because I see just how well they were able to do it!

The first time I felt that was years ago when I saw P&T do their blast off routine on TV.

 

[Garrette]

Azrael 5, check pm.

Richardson's Directory effect is killer and worth the price alone, but I warn you that the method is not at all what you would anticipate. The description I have given of it is not identical to his presentation but can be done.

 

[Humanists Harbor]

Beautiful, thanks for all of the info, looks like I've got lots of fun ahead of me.

P.S. Earlier this afternoon I received a belated holiday gift from a work friend (who, by the way, had no idea that I was interested in magic). MONOGRAMMED PLAYING CARDS FROM TIFFANY'S. Fancy blue box and everything. Yay! So I guess I'm going to have to find a way to master a double-lift after all and get some card tricks into my repertoire.

As promised, here are some book tests. QUOTE]

 

[Reno]

I do two card tricks. Just two. They are both beautifully simple tricks that are self-working, need no gimmicks, and require no sleight of hand. To people who don't know the secret, astounding. I have only ever revealed how I did one of them to 2 people: My wife, and my daughter, both on separate occasions, and both times because they forced me into revealing one of the tricks using their feminine wiles. (my wife made promises and threats, my daughter quivered her bottom lip and filled her eyes with tears) Both their responses when I explained the trick were the same: "But that's cheating!" That trick, to my wife and daughter, has lost it's beauty and mystical intrigue. I'll never reveal to them how the other one works.

But I still like to know how tricks are done!