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Aisoby MarkStivings Booksandthe like AnnemannForThe 90 s 11994) LectureNoles(1996) MentalMdlange set (1996) MobileMentaljsm bookaudiotape The Unseenediuon{1997) On videoand audlo' Encore(1994) Annemann's Hou'To MakeMonegWith PsiParties(1996) Vol.I (1996) The AnnemannUpgrades StivingsSpeaksVol. I (1996) SävingsSpeaksVol. II (1996) WAM - WalktuoundMentalism(1996) SpeaksAgain(1997) Sirivings Menialism- A Viewpoini(1997) EffectsSymbolMinded As In A Mirror Darkly As ln A Mirror DarkiyThe SequeL TarotTell Name-ACard Challenge ExhaSensoryPercephon Arcanelmage TarofOptic Warm FuzziesUp Close Tarot Tell BasicKit ArcaneSymbol Minded Par-OpticPlus SevenKeysTo Baldpate The Sight UnseenCase PsychicPsuds Happy Meal Mlracle SeaShell DivinationKit MarketedMaterialsThe Home PsychicPartyKii Cagliostro's Crystal- The DeiuxeSet For more informationpleasecall or !,'dte: Mark Sirivings 3309 N. Grandview Flagstaff,AZ 86004 USA 't74-0804 (52O) com emallMarkyApril@aol.

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To Pav The Price Firstpublished1997 b9 Mark Strivings 3309 N. Grandview Ragstaff,AZ 86004

USA CopyrightOl99Tby Mark D. Strivings

This book may not be reproduced,stored in any retrlevalsystemor mechanical, in angform or by any means,electronic, transmitted. permissionof written photocopying,recordingor otherwise,without Mark D. Strivings,3309 N. Grandview,Flagstaff,AZ 86004 Commercialproductionrightsto all effectscontainedin this colleclionare stric y reservedby Mark D. SLrivings.

So lloy (h" 1tric" Qo6feoJ Contents lntroduction ChallengeName-a-Card

ChallengeI ChallengeIl. ChallengeIII ChallengeIV ChallengeV ChallengeVI ChallengeVll ChallengeVIll ChallengeIX ChallengeX ChallengeXI ChallengeXll ChailengeXIll The StealthPrediction

StealthI SteaithII StealthIII StealihIV StealihV StealihVI StealthVII SteaithVIII StealthIX StealthX StealthXl - AKA 'Froggie' Any CardAr Any OpenPrediction PredictionI PredictionII. PredictionIII PredictionIV PredictionV PredictionVI PredictionVII Final Commeniary

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So Poy Stie ltrice Ocknot'(eögments As with any effortof thistype.iherearethosewho mustbe ihanked. Withouttheirhelpand support.thisbook simpiywould not havehappened. To my dearfriendsKathyand PatrickHolcombe,you'llneverknow what meansmoreto me a sourceof helpand suppoftyou havebeen.Yourfriendship than -To vou'lleverknow. the membersof The Six And One-Half.ArizonasMentalismBrain Trust.You guysare simplythe best.You inspireme in waysyou can'timagine. it'sirulv an honorto be a memberof thiswonderfulgroup. To DoccHilford.KentonKnepper.Bob CassidyandRlchardMassey. Your input on thiswork has beenof inestimablevalue.You all got me thinkingin thatmightneverhavehappened.Thanksfor sharing. directions To my bestfriend.RobertWaller.We don'tget togetheroflenenough. everytimewe talk.You'vebeenthe bestfriendanyonecould I get recharged everwishfor.As always,your ideasfan the flame.Heresto many morel And to my wonderfuiwife.April Canter.Ilove you more thanyou know. l've carvedout. Iadmireyour patiencein puttingup with thiscrazyexistence This,as aiways,is for you.

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Thisis a mostunusualbook.at leastfor a bookon mentalism.Thereare severalreasonsand influencesfor its'creaiion.I11try to keep thisshort so we lan get to the good stuff. ln the^earlyJOs therewasan attemptar a magicalweeklyin the Uniied _ States,alaGreaiBritains Abracadabra, calledThe Tälisman.It'u,asan interesting littlemagazinewhichwas onlyableio iasta fairlyshorttime.Whlle it containedmostlymagic.therewas a fair amountof mentalismpublishedthere, someof ii beingof very highquality.But the singlethingthat mädean impression on me the mostwasa carditem.In issue#47. the coveritemwas aciuallya card problementiiled,"To PayThe Price'. by Ron Wilson.Mr. Wilson simplyreiterated the point madeby Dr JacobDaley,tiat in any magicaleffect rhereis a priceto be paid-andproposeda cardproblemro seewharkllndot price r n er e a o e rw s o u t oo e w l r n g1 op a g . He setsomecondjtions on the problemthaLwerefairJystiff.Overthe .omingissues..spveral peopler-ontrib.rted theiridpason rhe problem,wirh mtxpdresu s. I rememberreadingwirhgrealinleresl,not so muchabourrhe hick.but.thediffering,approac hesand 'thepricethat the variouscontributors werewlflrngto pdy. I hts madesomeimprpssion on me. Anotherinfluenceon thiscurrenlwork is the publishedmaterialof Ed Marlo.Dont go runninglor rhedoor iI you re noLa cardman.Thisbookis not aboutcardmovesand the like.The reasonMarlo'swork is an influencehereis that.as I wasreadingone of 'Mario'sMagazines,,, a thoughtoccurredto me. In tiß parhculartlook,were.singlgeffeqF_ with multiplemethods.They would be listed. as simplymethod# 1, #2, etc.Well.as I wasreadingit occurredto me that the changesfrom one methodto the next sometimesrefläcteda desireto fixa' conditionfrom the previousmethod.In other words, Marlo would createona way to do a giventrick, but wasn'tentirelysatisfiedwith a particularaspectof the finalproduct. questio fix'.theproblemaspect,a new handling(orsomeümes an ,ln his ennretynewe ect)was bom. I hat,in turn,wouldleadto yet anotheridea.And

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-O-CqrO 14qme Chal(enge so on. If you readtheseworksfrom the standpointof a streamof ihought, it can changethe entiretone of the work.You beginto geta senseof HOW he thought,noi jusi WHAT he thought.It'san importanidistinction. So what you havehereis a work thatexaminesa smallhandfulof effecis from a varie! of viewpoints.Whilethis hasbeen donea fair amountin the magic Thereare reallyonly three world.ihishasn'ibeenexaminedmuchin mentalism. plots one is basedon a classic.one is is fairlystandard, effectshere.One of these since prettynovel.ln my own opinton,theyarealLworlhyof your examination. The bottomline here in my own repedoire. lhave foundthemto be work-hones yourself,what price ior to of these effects you should decide use some that, if is areyou willingto pay?Hence,thenameof thiswork.borrowed{romThe Taliiman. I will provideyou with severalsolutionsfor eachof theseitems.There are certainlymorethat I haven'tlistedhere.Try themall. seewhat fits'youand your styleof working. Thereason,then, for the approachof this bookis simplyto try and provideyou with materialthat you can definitelyuse,alongwith multiple Hopefully,you will find somethingthat can methodsfor achieving 'you'.thoseeffects. You mightalsocareto try and find ihe streamof thought becomedistinctly pages. presentin these It couldshryour own creativejuices.Who knowswhat you mightcome up with? Thereare thosewho will passihis book up becausethere are only three effects.Their'swill be the loss.Leam theseeffectsand you will havestrong, exclusivematerial.In eachof the followingI'll offer effectand method.as well as commeniaryand the pro'sand con'sof eachidea. lt may seemlike a lot at first. Hang in there.the trip willbe worthit. Lets proceed.

Cfiqffen ge tlame-Q -Card 'Premonition' by EddieJoseph. The precursorto this iheme is the classic The effectis truly wonderful.The performerhas the spectatorname any card in the deck.A deck of cardsis produced.The cardsarethen countedfaceup onto the tablewhile the spectatorlooksfor their card.Whenall is said and done, only 51 cardsare presentand their freelynamedcard is missing.The performerihen

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So PoyQfie price C6olienqe 1'lqne-O-CqrO cleanlyreachesinto a pocketand puilsout a singlecard.the very cardnamedl A greateffect.Yet no one doesit. At least.I'veneverseenanyonedo it in the originalform.I suspectthereis a reason.Thetitleof thisbook explainswhy. the priceis simplytoo highfor mostper{ormers, mgselfincluded.WhileIam not at libertyto revealthe methodof the originalhandling(which,I believeis still availablefrom Abbott's),sufficeto saythat when the effectis done, there arestill h.r'odecksof cardsin your pocketsof whichthe audienceis unaware.Plusthere areotherproblemswith the originalmethod.Pleasedon'imisunderstand me. the originalis a great pieceoi mentalwork with cards.lt jusi doesn'tfit me. And pleasedon t misunderstand the followingitems.I'm not sayingtheyre betterthan the original,either.But theydo address certainaspects of the original.as wellas aspecisof eachother.Foilowalongandyou 1lseewhat I mean. problem.the mostnotablein Thereis someotherwork on thisparticular recenttimesbeingTed Lesley'sPro-Monihon', from hiswonderfulbook. "Paramiracles". My firstrealshotat thisplot is my own 'Challenge Name-ACard, firstin printin my 1996 lecturenotes.'MentalMelange' . I havealso marketedthis particularversionfor sometime now. While I havethis effectin prini already,I m goingto includeit herefor the sakeof completeness, srnce severalother versionsfollow.Hereit is. in its' originalform from MentalMelange.

ChallengeName-A-Cardor ChallengeI- Mark Strivings I will describetwo methodsto achievethis little jewel,one virtuallyself workingand the othera one sleightwonder. Effect- A red deckand a blue deckare dropped on the tablewith the commandof, "Namea card!"comingfromthe seer.'The spectator namesa card, is allowedto changehis mind, but finallysettleson a card. The red deck is uncased.The performerexplainsthat he will count through the cardsand the spectatoris to look for the namedcard. Upon countingthroughihe entiredeck, only 51 cardsare found to be presentand the namedcard is not there.The performerexplainsthat before he left hishome that eveninqhe took one card

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8o PoUQh" prtce Ciiq(fenqe tr'lorne-0-Cur0 from the red deckand placedit in the bluedeck.Upon thumbingthroughthe It is the randomlgnamedcardl! blue deck,a singlered cardis discovered. is absolutelv accutate... 5070of the hme. Meihod- The abovedescription you you leave and throw tell thjt the other 5070 up, let me of the time Before there is a bit of a proceduralsidetrackthat playsjust as strong. Iwill give you the easyversionfirst.Just so gou know, the effectis identical in both methods,howevertheyeachwill havetheirown merits.Decidefor matchingred backeddecks,one blue yourself.Here'swhat you need.Gei h.r,'o back deck,someroughingfluidor spraymattefinish.anda singledie. I will explainthe reasonfor the die laterin this description.The blue deckdoes not haveto be the samedesignasthe red decks,but mustbe the samesize(i.e. poker or bridge). Take all three decksand removeall of the even valueblack cardsand odd value red cards.Set the blue deckstacksasidefor the moment,we'ilget backto them. For this first deckyou wiil need only the cardsfrom the red decks.Set the unusedred cardsaside.Keep your h.r,ostacksfrom the decksseparaie. Thoroughlyshuffleone of the stacks.Now stackthe otherhalf packin ihe identicalorder as the shuffledpack.Put one stackon top of the other.Thisputs 26 cardsaway.(Onesmallnote - breakup any matching eachcards'duplicate pain, i.e. the blackl0's, the red3's,the reasonwill be apparentlater).Now discardthe face card of the deckand it is now ready. You now have a deck of 51 cardsthat are comprisedof all the even black cardsand odd red cards,each card representedhvice (exceptone,the card.just Placethis deckin the red removed).Eachcard is 26 awayfrom its'duplicate. caseand it is ready to go. To constructthe blue deckvou will need one of the unusedhalf red decks that is left over from the above däscriphon.Thesecardswill be the odd blacks and evenreds.You will also requirethe even blacksand odd redsirom the blue deck that you separatedeariier.Shuffleeacl-rhalf separately.Now you need to rough the facesof the blue cardsand ihe backsof the red cards.Oncethey are ready,pair up any red backedcardon the face of any bluebackedcard. Do this with all 26 pain. When you are finishedyou will have what appearsto be a blue backeddeck of cards.Placethesein the blue caseand you are readyto perform. To perform, producethe two decksand statethat earlierin the day you removedone card from the red deck and put it in the blue deck. Have the

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So Poy'Qtieprice Cliqfferrqe 14qme-O-Carö spectator name any card.You wanthim to nameanyone of the odd blacksor evenreds.the facecardsol the pairsin the bluedeck.For now letsassumethat he does(i.e.the 7 ol spades). We'lldealwiththosetimeswhenthis doesnt happenin a bit. Removethe red deckfrom itscaseand explainthat you will countthrough ihe cardsand gourspectltoris to look for theiröard.Countthroughaliof the" cards.Therewill be only 51 and yourspeciators cardwill not be t"herel Sincethe duplicates are26 cardsapartand vourvolunteerrs concentrating on hiscard.the dupeswill hot be noticed.Thisis arsornereason for separatingany pairsof cardsin the run. If there werehuo black tensin a row it mightbe noticedwhentheyturn up againlaterin the count.That wouldbe oao. Backio the action.You noavuncas€the blue decl