Magician’s Choice Revealed

August 26th, 2010

If you plan on doing Mentalism, I want to share with you a very important concept you need to be aware of. It is a concept that is used in many mentalist or mind reading routines. The concept is known as “Magician’s Choice”.

Here’s how ii works, suppose you present a volunteer with an array of choices. It could be you just want to demonstrate that you can read their mind. Using the concept of “Magician’s Choice” you can do it easily.

With “Magician’s Choice”, it appears a spectator is getting a free choice, however, they are choosing exactly the item you want them to choose.

For example, you put five different ($1, $5, $10, $20, and $100) US bills on a table. Suppose you want them to select the $5 bill.

Ask them to point to two of the bills. If they point to the $5 bill then keep that bill and the other one they pointed to. If they didn’t point at the $5 bill, then discard the two bills they pointed at.

Now there should be two or three bills left. Ask them to point to one. If they select the $5 bill then discard the ones they didn’t point to. If they didn’t point to the $5 bill, discard the card they pointed at.

You keep doing this and by process of elimination, the item you want them to select will eventually be the only item left. By using “Magician’s Choice” you can force any item on a spectator to make it appear that you read their mind.

Only do this once in your routine, or the audience may catch on to what you are doing.

To read more about “Magician’s Choice” and other sneaky ways to read people’s mind, I highly recommend you read Master Mentalism: http://www.magicwill.com/mastermentalism.html

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7 Tips To Performing Incredible Magic

January 25th, 2009
TIP 1
When setting a magical apparatus (such as a wand or other item) on your magic table use the arm that is away from the audience. You never want to cross your arm in front of your body when placing things on your table.

TIP 2
Keep your body in full view of the audience lest they think you are trying to hide something.

TIP 3
Learn to stand in one place without having to spread your legs apart. It is all right to do this rarely but to continually do this is not good. Standing properly is a tough thing. Any good book on acting can teach you more. Go to your library. There are some excellent works on this subject.

TIP 4
Be at ease but never overdo this. Always know that you have people watching you. Don’t pick your nose in public or dig wax out of your ear. I’m serious, I have seen this done by those who should know better.

TIP 5

Always talk to the lady in the back. In other words, make sure everyone hears you.

TIP 6
At the finish of a trick, hold the finish so that the audience knows the trick is over. Too many performers don’t “hold and pose” the climax. If you have just found the selected card, then hold it high so that everyone can see it. Stand still until they applaud. Then you can put the thing away.

TIP 7
If you are using a green handkerchief, please show it. Make a gesture that something is about to be done with this item and that they notice it is green. Remember that an audience won’t know that a red handkerchief used to be green unless they notice it was green in the first place.

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