A spectator is handed a business card and is asked to insert the
card anywhere they wish into a book in front of them. You the magician then
perform a seemingly impossible act of mind reading.
Performance :A spectator is handed a business card and is
asked to insert the card anywhere of their choosing into a book which the
magician is holding out in front of them.
Another member of the audience is then handed the book and asked to open it
at the page that the business card was inserted. This person is asked to read
and concentrate on the first sentence of the opened pages.
After some intense concentration, the magician then calls out the first
sentence on the pages.
How It's Done : You will need two identical business cards
and a plain covered book. Open the book near the center and write down the
first sentence on the page that you have opened it at. Now place one of the
business cards in between the pages and close the book, the business card
should be just sticking out approximately one centimetre from the pages at the
top of the book..
Make sure that you have memorized the first sentence on the page that you
previously wrote down.
Now to begin the trick, hand another of the same business cards to your
spectator and hold the book out in front of them with both your hands. the book
should be facing them lengthwise and making sure that the end with the sticking
out business card is facing you. The spectator is asked to insert their
business card quickly in between the book pages at any position of their
choice.
Now take the book and hand it to another member of the audience.
It is at this point that you discretely turn the book around so
that the end of the book with the secretly pre inserted card is facing this
audience member.
At the same time secretly remove the spectators inserted card
and discretely steal it away and place it in your pocket or anywhere out of
site.
The audience member should assume that the card facing them in the book was
the one inserted by the spectator. They are then asked to open the book at the
pages where the card is inserted and to concentrate on the first sentence. You
now use all your acting skills to be seen to be concentrating hard and then
announce the first sentence on the opened page.
This mind reading trick can look really impressive because as far as the
audience is concerned, they had a completely free choice where to place the
card and at no time did you see the page that was opened at the point where the
business card was inserted.
