Then you pick up a notepad and scribble something onto it. The book test is a classic magic trick used by mentalists to demonstrate telepathy like effects. Dan white blows jimmys mind with a harry potter book trick duration. Ask your friend to write down the page number on a piece of paper. The premise of the trick is that there may be thousands of words in a book, yet the magician is able to somehow identify the one word, sentence, or image within the book.
The name refers to its early use as a test of mental powers. The magician first asks a spectator to choose a word or figure on a starting page. You know that amazing trick where a magician asks you to choose any line from a book. The modern concept of the book test involves the magician revealing a word, phrase. Yes theres a trick to it but many of us like the tricks. Well, in this video you will discover the secret behind that very trick. The first step is to allow the person to chose a word from any page in a book and not to tell you what it is. In this tutorial, learn the secret behind the magic trick. The best book related magic trick in the world the spectator. Make sure it isnt a page right at the beginning or end of the book.
The tonight show starring jimmy fallon recommended for you. You know that amazing trick where a magician asks you to choose any line from a book and he will guess it. The book test magic trick explained the spruce crafts. Derren can tell where a reader is in a book just by using the time spent reading. We know magic isnt real but sometimes its fun to suspend disbelief. Im curious how a particular flavour of magic trick is done. Variations using a single page that can be inserted into other books, sometimes known as the true test or modern magazine test, were first developed by in the 1930s by u. When you do that first cursory flick, just to show them their book is a real copy, you mentally note one of the page numbers at which you momentarily pause, together with the first word on. To get a new trick find an old book here is a brief bibliography of some of the hundreds of public domain magic books available for free on the net. Learn magic from master magician stephen ablett, as he teaches some simple, yet effective magic. They pick only one word out of multiple books, and youll already know what it is. A random page is selected in a book, leading to a random word on that page.
He actually says the word as he is asking banks to pick a book. Modern variations on the book test generally use a different methodology. Whatever number they get, you ask the first volunteer to turn to that page in the book and concentrate on the first line of the page. How to magically guess a random sentence from a book prop tricks. In the video, we chose page 141 now ask your friend to choose one of the first nine lines on that page. Reading minds book test mentalism tutorial predict. How to find any word in a book a simple trick magician supply. Guessing words on a random page trick of the mind youtube.
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