Magic Tricks

As someone else pointed out, what makes AOK just about the coolest, best impromptu mentalism routine around is that it combines magic technique with a mentalism principle to devastating effect. None of these things are new, but for anyone who has now come to mentalist after doing card tricks, this will bring tears of joy to your eyes.

Here's the deal. You will being doing two card sleights. If you've read Erdnase, you will know that one isn't bad, and the other is considered pretty difficult, requiring lots of practice. But guess what? You are a mentalist, and not a soul alive is expecting you to being doing card sleights, so you can be positively terrible at the tough sleight--and get away with it! And then you apply a tried-and-true mentalism principle, and you will stun the living [expletive deleted] out of people.

I tip my hat to the creative genius of Lewis. With about a half-hour of practice, you will have a routine that you will use the rest of your life.