Magic Tricks

Spectators get led down a natural path that seems more conversational than anything. It isn't a "Wanna see a trick?" style effect since it starts off more like a game before adding a surprising little bit of "wow" factor in the second phase, culminating in a completely inexplicable finale. It builds up so naturally people won't even realize its a trick until the last phase, and by then they'll be begging you to pull it off. Just make sure you have a good story to go with it - there are so many believable directions you can take this.

For the record, I bought one of those $1.00 newsprint word/number puzzle books, giving the visual suggestion that the game is innocent enough. Instead of tidy looking index cards, I am using 2 torn 8.5x11 pages to make it look more impromptu and capitalize on The Jerkz hack for the 3rd phase.

The accompanying PDF is great, and the inclusion of the (massive) word list makes the trick endlessly customizable to your own style and personality. I will be making several wordlists so that I have something for every occasion.

PS: I saw some people moaning about not getting pre-printed cards. Why would you want this to look like a gimmicky trick when hand-written cards is such a huge convincer here? Think of the visuals - *nobody* carries professionally printed lists of random words and letters around that conveniently work in a magical trick yet serve absolutely no other purpose...