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Mystery of the Blackboard
By Ted Annemann

This is an act in itself. It can be done anywhere you can set up a blackboard or in today's venues, a dry-erase board. The bigger the better so all can see it. This plays for any size audience. It can be part of a larger show or as stated, stand alone. No props except the board, a marker to write with, an eraser & a blindfold. Effect; three helpers are asked to write a word of no less the 7 letters, a 3 digit number from the second and the third to draw a geometric design. All this done while the mentalist has been lead to the farthest point on the stage. The audience is asked to remember what the three helpers are thinking of. They then erase all evidence of what was written. The board is clean. No vestige of the writing is left. The mentalist is lead back to the board and after concentrating he writes the same thee items the helpers did or very close. A smash everywhere it has been used. It is used today by many of the biggest mentalists working today. Yes today! Although written in the 30's, it is as workable today as it was than, even more so. A one-person act you can do!

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Beyond the Eyes of Dr. Reese
by Ray Carlyle from an Idea by Bob Nelson

This is for use by a reader in a one-on-one situation. This is a very old method that has not been used for over thirty years. However don’t let that fool you as it has been updated to make it better than it ever was, with the new handling, it covers the awkward moments of the original version. Simply, a sitter writes a question on a slip that is placed into a drinking glass, covered with a hanky, which is held in place by rubber band. You and the sitter concentrate and you answer the questions. After the sitter has received the answer to the question she/he may remove the rubber band and hanky from the glass and dump out the question still in tact for you to autograph.

A New version by John Riggs and Ray Carlyle has been written and is now included with this effect. The new glass is now also included. This glass is a bottomless glass with a cap or plug as it used to be called, from Germany. It will hold a liquid such as Coke, Beer, or water and may be drank from with no fear that the bottom cap will come off until you want it to be removed.

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Excello Second Sight Act
By U. F. Grant with update by Ray Carlyle
(Also available in The Carlyle Touch Book)

This, as the mentalist tells his audience, is a second sight act. But, my friends, without codes, hand signs or electronics. Yet as he passes through the audience he will say only "concentrate". The medium on stage will described articles such as dates on coins, serial numbers on bills, describe people, their names, phone numbers, names of cards. And for a grand climax, members of the audience will simply hold up their fingers for numbers, which the mentalist will put on a large board on stage, until there are three rows of five digits each. The medium will call out Write down the sum total which will be correct. Remember the medium on stage, has been blindfolded for the entire time, has not seen anything either in the audience or on stage. Yes the blindfold is real and yes she cannot see anything. Remember, no codes of any kind and no electronics. It can be mastered in a very short time. This type of effect is right for any type audience. Will works extremely well for large audiences. Don’t let the low price fool you. Used by some of the most successful mentalists working.

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The Cover says it all. This is the second video I have made. It was videoed at a lecture of the PEA in Dearborn, Michigan just outside of Detroit in 2008.

Annemann Revisited - The Almost No Gimmick Book Test (Also a No Gimmick Book Test) - No Gimmick Seven (7) Keys to Baldpate - Carlyle's Almost Real Prediction - His Famous Butter Tub Headline Prediction handling - Carlyle's Mentalism version of U. F. "Gen" Grant's Out Of This World" - The Guessing Game - Thought to Picture - Over 30 minutes of Bonus Material.

Also once you have watched the video you may put the disc into a computer and print out the printed instructions of most of the effects.

As the title shows, this is an effect that is drawn from two of the best minds of the past and made ready for the audiences of today. It is an effect that can make a reputation for you as a real performer worth the high price you demand. As seen, you have a double page taken from any newspaper chosen from many you have on stage. They are real and not gaffed in any way. A helper decides which paper, what double page and when it is torn in half, which half to keep and which to throw away. This done may times until you have just a small bit of the page left. Remember they say and you throw away. The choice is theirs. The prediction may be reveled in any of several ways given. In a bonus insert a method of not touching the paper at all is given and a method for finding the prediction in a mailed letter ala my Headline Prediction offered elsewhere in this catalog.

This is one of the effects that made Ted Annemann the legend that he still is today. The thinking that went into the very effective card divination is beyond most effects and yet is simple as there are no slights. In fact, once you hand the deck to the first spectator you never touch the deck again until the effect is over. Yes it all happens in the spectator’s hands. You will want to read this description more than once. Here’s what happens, the cards are removed from their case and handed to helper number one. He shuffles the cards and fans them in the time-honored fasion of "pick a card" to helper number two who takes any card he wishes. He looks at and remembers its identity. Helper number one closes the deck and is told to hand the cards to helper number three. He is told to shuffle the deck and he also is instructed to fan the cards as number one had. The helper with the card is told to insert the card anywhere he wishes in the fanned deck. The cards closed and once again shuffled. Now helper three is ask to deal the cards one at a time into a pile in front of him. As he does, you place you hand over, but not touching, the dealt card. This goes on until you say "Stop!". At that point you ask the helper number two who chose the card to name the card and helper three turns over the stopped at card and it is the card named. In the revisited version you may name the card before it is turned over. Things to remember, you never touch the cards and they are shuffled twice by two of the helpers. No stacked deck and if you wish you can dawn a blindfold before the final dealing by helper three. No stooges are used. Can be done any where at any time. No reset. Ready when you are.

New Complete version with a marked Deck and a special pen for marking more decks

This is an very easy playing card code for two people by the Master Mentalist, Punx. Before his untimely death he gave me the effect to market. In the effect any card, even a Joker, may be selected by the spectator and you can let your partner know in statements that are so natural as to never tip the method. Words such as " Are you ready?" will tell the partner the suit. The code comes on a sheet of paper in the instructions, the size of a playing card and may be printed and glued to the face of a Joker or on of the extra "ad" cards that come with most new decks. If two crib sheets are made both may have one to use until the code is learned by both. That should not take more that a few hours, but for those that take longer to remember things or just as a safety item, its there. Easy to learn, ready any time and done with any deck or without a deck by just having a card agreed upon by the spectator or audience. Remember that your partner may leave the room while the card is being selected as you code it as it's being revealed. So simple yet so direct. Worth much more that the price as a reputation builder.

Here is a nice little stunt that is fun at parties and anywhere some gather, even at the office. You state that since you have been involve in the Psychic Entertainment field you have been asked to test people and keep a record. You state that you use the most advanced interments to do the testing. From you wallet you remove a ladies hair pin, not the so called Bobby Pin but the open kind. You ask for a ruler. If one is not available you then ask for a stiff piece of cardboard. These are your advanced tools. Hopefully you will get a ruler, but if not you will have to cut the cardboard to size and then mark it off as if it were a ruler. (Or carry one in your inside coat pocket) This is even more of a laugh at your wonderful scientific tools. With a spectator acting as the test person, you spread the pin open like an upside down "V" and lay it over the ruler that he is holding just less than an inch from a clear, flat table. He is to "WILL" the pin to move along the ruler. As he tries it does move and keeps moving. Suddenly it may stop and turn around either not move or moves backwards. You stop the proceedings and take the ruler and note how far it went. You ask his name and enter the results in your "little back book". Most will laugh and then scratch their heads as to what has just taken place.

Here is an effect that plays big, but packs small as they say. What the audience sees. A robe stretched between two points (could be two spectators or any two points) from the rope are five (5) balloons of different colors. Each is inflated and are about 12 inches in size. These balloons are held by five bulldog clips. None of the above are gimmicked ( these are not my Ostin Clips). Now a spectator is selected by any fare means as there is no plants or stooges used. He or she is ask to find which balloon holds a one hundred dollar bill folded up inside. Then you play a kind of "Bank Night" or a "Deal or No Deal" routine to find the bill. The routine allows for you or the 'helper' to win and at the end an envelope that was hanging high over the stage is removed only to find a prediction that details all the actions that happened in finding the bill.

No props are provided. Only a complete routine giving you an ending with and without the production ending. The prop below is only a suggestion. It may be done with an ending that does not require the Abbott prop.

The only prop needed is a device for the prediction which can be bought from Abbott's Magic company for $30, ( see the instructions for a picture and name )