Fragments

Here's a winner from Paul Alberstat! Here’s your chance! Now you can shatter your audience while you entertain them. The master mentalist—that’s you—presents a streamlined demonstration of mind control, using a copy of Reader’s Digest and a stunned member of your audience. The participant does all the work—you just instruct them as to what to do. Then you get all the applause. The EFFECT: You riffle through the pages of a magazine and stop upon command. You tear out the selected page and hand it to a volunteer, who creases it across the center and tears it in half. They decide to keep one half and discard the other. This is repeated until they are left with an eighth of a page. The participant touches the center of the page fragment and looks at the word beneath their fingertip. You discern a letter or two and then announce the word. You can also show a method, but you’ll find this new combination simplifies the working and actually strengthens the effect. YOU USE NO switches, secret additions, confederates, counting of pieces or counting to a word, BUT THE PRESENTATION DOES REQUIRE THAT YOU BE AN EXPERIENCED PERFORMER. Ready-to-work with a magazine, 24 refills and detailed instructions.