Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Overhand Shuffle Deck Upside Down (Top Stack Control)

Interesting idea of overhand shuffling the deck upside down then just throwing the last top stack to the top.

Tutorial

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Patter/Phrases (Mentalism)

When asked "what is mentalism"
"A mentalist is someone who uses their five senses to create the experience of a sixth sense. I use a lot of techniques from psychology, body language, breathing, to influencing in interesting experiments."
Lior Suchard

"According to my wife just mental, but instead of just a magician where you think of fast hands and card tricks my job get inside your head, kind of process the way you think. 
Oz Pearlman


Patter at beginning of mental effect
"So what I'm going to do is an experiment about influencing and mind reading."

Monday, September 21, 2020

Branching/Progressive Anagrams

The branching anagram is a method devised, as far as I know, by Stanley Collins in 1920 and has been tinkered with by numerous thinkers over the years. The principle at the core of the method is that a person can think of a word, and as long as there are a limited number of options to choose from, by discovering which letters are present in the word they chose, their word can be determined.



See:
The Prodigal by Atlas Brookings