Magic Tricks

Imagine this. You hand a spectator 12 cards with different simple designs on them and instructions. You tell the spectator that you are going to the leave the room. After you do, they pick a card and follow the instructions for the drawing. A minute or so later, you come back into the room with the drawing duplicated. Nearly test conditions, perhaps? At no time do you touch the cards or what the spectator drew. (Heck, you don't even see the paper with the spectator's drawing.) No f****, sh****s, b*****, i**, wallet, p****, electronics, etc. You don't even have to be in the room when the spectator takes the cards. You can have someone else (not a stooge) give the cards to them. And since they are reading the instructions themselves, no l********* ploys or p************ subtleties are in play.

OK, so that's the advanced handling of Focus. The basic one uses a technique that's pretty standard as mentalism things go. The advanced one does not, and, I daresay, is a mentalist fooler. I'm really impressed. Dave Forrest thinks so far outside the box that he's in a totally different box in a different galaxy. Sure, it's a 1 in 12, limited-range drawing dupe, but so what? It fooled me badly. And no, the method is not like the 1 in 26 Osterlind's Design Duplication System. You have not seen this method before.

You get the design cards and an instructional DVD where Dave goes over the system and handling carefully. But once you have that "OMG! So that's how it's done!" moment, you will be able to come up with your own routines. This is strong mentalism--and my new go-to drawing dupe routine.