You start going through the process you wrote down or printed out earlier in the day. 'We're going to create a personalized magic number for you, okay?' You take out your phone and open it up to the calculator and hand it to your friend. You turn your GLOMM membership card face down on the table. You pull a piece of paper from your pocket and unfold it. Can I get your help? Let me see if I have those instructions I wrote down earlier.' It's a trick that supposedly is guaranteed to work for Elite Members, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet. 'Actually, there's something I wanted to try that I was reading online today. The GLOMM is open to every one, but only a rare few are Elite Members.' 'Oh this? Yeah, this is just the card that indicates I'm an Elite Member in the Global League of Magicians & Mentalists. She makes some comment on it or you bring it up yourself. And it's pretty much self-working.ĭuring some dead time while hanging out with a friend you are looking for something in your wallet and you pull out your Global League of Magicians & Mentalists membership card. It utilizes a couple very useful tools that should be in your repertoire anyway. It requires a bit of acting (at least as I do it), but you just have to act like an indignant idiot, which shouldn't be too hard for you. It's a little play-lette with a satisfying dramatic structure and a premise that is at least mildly intriguing.

Somehow a card with a whole bunch of extraneous information on it seemed less interesting than a simple, straightforward card that implies some greater, enigmatic organization.īut there is a trick that is fun to do with the membership card. It also lends an impromptu feel which is not present with type written predictions.Originally I had considered loading up the GLOMM membership card with a bunch of outs and reveals for magic and mentalism tricks, but I looked at other examples of tricks in this style that use fake credit cards or membership cards and they all seemed universally terrible to me so I decided against it. This allows you to prepare messages anywhere, even in front of the audience. However, It is more effective if you learn to write in this style yourself.

After installing Cyptext on your computer, you will be able to print off special characters quickly and easily. Type anything you want and adjust the font size to suit your needs. It is revealed to be a peerfect match of the number just given.Ĭryptext is a custom designed True-Type font with an interesting property. The magician asks the audience to turn the board with the audience member’s name upside down. The last member holding the calculator is introduced onto the stage and is asked to read the number. The same name as the audience member previously written on the board. The sealed envelope is passed onto a audience member to verify the envelope is sealed and is asked to read the prediction out loud. The magician pulls out a sealed envelope with a prediction written before the show. Numbers and equations are inputed into the calculator per each passing member. The Magician asks the first member with the calculator to input any four digit number that has meaning to them and then the calculator is passed on. A calculator is taken out and passed around the audience. The audience member’s name is written and placed onto the stage for everyone to see. The Magician senses a strange feeling of familiarity with an audience member and asks for their name.

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