Alexander George, born and bred in Manhattan, was educated at Columbia, Harvard, and Oxford. He now teaches philosophy at a liberal arts college. With his left hand, he dabbles in magic. In both pursuits, he is interested in the mind's strange ways.
Flip and TellAlexander George An impromptu piece of close-up mentalism that uses no gimmicks in which you demonstrate clairvoyance (or mind-reading), then your participant does - and then you finally show that you had predicted everything! The effect: You and your participant each have a collection of coins before you on a table. You and she take turns secretly flipping over your own coins until she is completely satisfied that neither of you could possibly know the heads-tails orientation of the other’s coins. You now cover a coin of yours and she covers one of hers. Yet you are able to tell the orientation of her... | ★★★★★ $6 to wish list |