Book Test
Equipment: A book of 150-200 pages, paper, a pencil, lexicon (alphabet card), glue or adhesive.
Preparation: On the pice of paper write all the page number over one hundred and next to each number the first word of each page. Stick the paper on to the first card in the lexicon pack.
Performance: Hand the the book to a member of the audiance. Now ask three people each to call out a number so that a three figure number is arrived at purely by chance. This number must be less than the number of pages in the book, for you now ask the first person to turn to that selected page number and look at the first word on the page.
You now remove the pack of lexicon cards from your pocket. As you fan through the cards looking for the appropriate letters glance at the list stuck to the first card and look up the appropriate word. Remove the cards in the correct order and place them face up on a table to spell the correct word.
Ask the spectator to think of his word as you find the letters and you will find that people will later forget all about the book.”She just asked someone to think of a word,” They will say to thier friends, ” And she read his mind!” It is not what you do but what people think you are doing that is important in mind reading.
