Took almost a week off from posting to make sure everything is ready.
I’m still reading and getting new ideas that I’d love to try out, but it’s time to start locking it down now.
I do want open with a NW effect, IF I can get it clean looking within the next week. (I want a week of “perfect practices” before taking it live.) If I do this, it will actually be PRE-Intro, that is, before I say Good Evening and Welcome, etc. (Like an action movie where four guys get killed before they even show the title.)
Next, short intro.
- Zener Board – Four symbols, spec chooses one, I prove that I already knew it
Talk about the Goody Bags – pencils, papers, and folding
Write Carnak questions – Question for “Psychic Advisor” and one piece of personal info
- Ubiquitous Nines - Simple Math trick
Collect Carnak questions – Now we find out if my
WHILE the box is going around the table, I start the Silent Running tissue toss
- Silent Running – The card exists nowhere but the spectators mind, but I know what it is
Put the Carnak questions in a fishbowl in plain sight – simple misdirection
Talk about the “Randomizing Envelopes” – the chief ruse of the night
(Up Next: First “card trick” of the night, ties to Zener board)
- Intro Zener cards with PATEO prediction – predicted card is the only one left
- One Out of Six – An old “spot trick” adapted to Zener cards (Haman count)
(Next: This is the point where, for the first time, REAL playing cards are used)
- The Rocks Cry Out – Three specs each cut to a card and set a rock on top, I hold the rocks and reveal the cards
- Hypnotic Regression meets Astral Projection – ID played in the open
- ACAAN Impossible – One spec holds the deck, gives a number, another spec names the card.
(This leaves the deck in the specs hands. May be examined)
- Carnak Questions – answer the questions before they are asked, spec hold the slips
- Remote Drawing – spectator draws a picture in her mind, I dup the picture on the whiteboard
The drawing will be the finale.
“Everything” used will be left on display to look at after the show. I have two decks to ditch, the Zener Board will be put away IMMEDIATELY after use, ditto the OM box. (I may have a sub ready, just in case someone asks “Where is that box?”)
That’s a full evening. It could still “migrate”, but the only thing I’m considering right now has to do with the Harris effect. I could bump it back one position just for the purpose of keeping all the “Zener-like” effects together.
Perhaps at another time I could move it to MUCH later in the program, but I’m still not confident enough with it to make it a feature. If it’s blown early, I can still recover the show.
My fingers are cold because of the excitement. The adrenalin hasn’t really left for days now. Plenty of time to work with it.