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Manoeda BY: Ever Elizalde.

Copyright © Ever Elizalde 2015 All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced without written consent from the author

Introduction Hi there. My name is Ever Elizalde and I’m a professional mentalist who lives and works (and was born) in Mexico. Some of you may know me from internet forums, some of you may not. Either case, I want to say Thank You for purchasing this little EBook, which is my very first release and must admit that I’m very excited about it. What you are about to learn here, is nothing less than my take on a classic: Which Hand. What? What do you mean there’s a lot of which hands out there? I’m sure there are, but tell me, How many of those which hands can you actually do without a coin? That’s right. This is a which hand routine that doesn’t require the use of an actual coin (or any other prop, for that matter.) Interested now? Glad to hear it, please, read on.

By the way, if you are wondering what the hell does “Manoeda” means, you can join the club, because I don’t know either. But it sounds cool doesn’t it? Now, please follow me to the next room.

Effect and Presentation The mentalist selects a random spectator to help him. Have you ever played that game where you hide a coin in any of your hands and someone else tries to guess where is hidden? We are going to play that game. However, it is going to be a bit more difficult, as we’re going to play with an imaginary coin. Here, take this coin. (The mentalist gesticulates as if he were handing a real coin) I’m going to turn back, and you’re going to hide the coin in any of your hands. Or you can decide to hide it in your pocket, “leaving your hands empty” trying to fool me. And once you’re done, I want you to extend both hands with tight fists in front of you, just as if we were playing with a real coin. And please don’t do anything that could give away where you decided to hide the coin. Are you ready? Good. The mentalist turns away and the participant hides the coin. Done? Perfect, I’m going to try to find out where the coin is. To do that, I’m going to ask you a very simple Yes/No question, and you can decide if you tell me the truth, or if you lie. It’s completely up to you. I’m going to try to read your mind to know if you are being truthful or not… As I said before, this may not work if you’re not willing to help me, so, let’s work together. Are you ready? Good. The first question I’m going to ask you is… mmm… Is the coin in any of your hands? -Yes. Interesting… Ok, I’m feeling something… but I can’t quite discern what this is… Ok, I’m going to ask you one more question. To get a stronger feeling this

time, if you lied to me in the first question, lie to me again. If you told me the truth, tell me the truth again...Just don’t do anything that may give you away. Let’s see…Is the coin… in your left hand? -Yes. Hmmm…Al right… It certainly is a bit clearer now; this feeling is getting stronger and stronger. You are doing wonderful! This is the last thing I need you to do… If the coin is in your right hand, put it in your pocket, or if it already was in your pocket just put it in your left hand. However this is just to make it a bit more random. Have you done that? Good. When I snap my fingers, I want you to mentally tell me where you have the coin. Don’t say anything out loud and don’t give me any clue, just think about it. (Snap!) One more time… (Snap!) Interesting, I can see that the coin… Is not in your…pocket… It’s definitely not in your… right hand… and I’m a 100% sure that the coin is in your left hand! The participant agrees.

Method I would like to thank Leo Boudreau and Banachek, as the authors that inspired me to create this effect. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.

As you may have (or not) already guessed, the secret lies in the two questions in which the participant can either lie or tell the truth. We’ll put a value to the spectator’s answers: Yes= 1 and No=2. We just have to do a simple addition and we’ll have an answer. If the participants‘s answer to our first question is “Yes” in our heads we’ll say “1” If the second answer is “No” In our heads we’ll say “2” and we just have to make the math 1 + 2= 3. A 3 means that the coin is in the participant’s RIGHT HAND, and this is sure-fire. If you happen to get a 3, you instantly now where the coin is and you can end the effect in any way you like. If you get any other number (2 or 4) it means that the coin is either in the participant’s left hand or in his pocket, but we’ll know for sure that the coin is NOT in his right hand, and we’ll take advantage of that. Once we know that the coin is not in his right hand, we’ll say this: Hmmm…Al right… It certainly is a bit clearer now; this feeling is getting stronger and stronger. You are doing wonderful! This is the last thing I need you to do… If the coin is in your right hand, put it in your pocket, or if it already was in your pocket just put it in your left hand. However this is just to make it a bit more random.

This script allows us to force the coin to always end up in the participant’s LEFT HAND. (The part of the script wrote in bold letters, needs to be said in a casual manner, to not cause any suspicions) And now you can reveal that in any way you like.

And that’s basically it. It took me quite a few months to develop this routine as it is right know, and I’m very happy to share it with you. I hope you have found this at best useful and at worst, interesting.

You are allowed to perform this effect anywhere and anyhow you like, but I keep all marketing rights. I hope you have enjoyed it.

But wait!! We’re not done yet. Please, follow me to the next room.

Some Ideas I recommend you force a coin at the beginning via equivoque (if you want to keep it completely prop-less) and hand a prediction to your participant before you start the routine. The prediction will read like this:

By my first impressions of you, I’m sure you’ll play with a Penny -Ever Of course, you would have forced a penny before. My suggestion (and something I’ve been doing successfully) is forcing one coin out of three. That way the equivoque is simple and is still very powerful. I’m not going to explain how to do an equivoque force of one coin out of three, as I’m sure you have your preferred way to do it.

Using three participants. This is something I would do onstage. The idea is using three participants instead of the three original positions (right hand, left hand and pocket) This way there’s more audience participation and you can even bring a fourth participant to be the one who answers the two questions. So, this is the way we do it:

Place three participants in a row (A, B and C, from left to right.) and a fourth participant standing by your side, to act as a judge. You give a coin to any of the three participants (this time it can be a real coin, as it plays better this way on stage) then you turn back and ask them to pass the coin around as you count to 10, and when you stop counting they’ll stop and whoever has the coin will hide it in his pocket. And everybody has to act normal and not give away anything. You continue the routine using the method explained above and you can (and must) build it up with your own presentation. The only thing that would be different is the formulation of the questions. Instead of asking “Is the coin in any of your hands” you should ask the fourth participant if the coin is with person A or person C (Which are the ones that would correspond to the left hand and right hand, or, in other words, Any of the hands) but of course- Call their by their names(!) And the last question would be: Does (Insert name of the person in position C) have the coin? Once you get the idea, you know how to proceed.

Closing thoughts Thank you for investing your time (and your money) into reading this, which is my first published work. I hope you liked it, and mostly, that you have found this useful. If you did like this work, you can be sure that there’ll be more works from where this came from! (Not exactly on which hand, I’m done with that… for the moment.) If you have any question or just feeling in the mood for a good chat, you can write me at: [email protected] Or, you can get in touch with me via Magic Café. I’m the user “E.E.”

Credits, Mentions and Acknowledgements This is my favorite part. I couldn’t have done anything without the help of the next folks: (In strict alphabetical order) ANDREU- For being a very good friend and helping me with the routine from the very beginning, thank you bro. BANACHEK- Hi Steve. This mention and credit is for your cool “Ring of truth” which gave me inspiration to create this effect. CERVIER (Jean Manuel-Maries) – For giving me some very good suggestions and improvements for the routine. Without him, the presentation would not be so good! So, thank you for that, you deserve it.

IAIN- Thank you Dunford, for giving me the advice and the words I needed, when I needed them. Next time I’ll put a photo of your arse and re-sell this work for a €1000. ITZEL- My beautiful wife. She is my go-to test subject, and once an effect has amazed her, I know that effect is a good one. Thank you for being with me and support this crazy man all the time. LEO BOUDREAU- For your excellent effect “Lie to me” which also was very inspiring for me. OLIVER DOBBS- For designing the amazing logo you saw in the very first page of this E-Book. PAOLO CAVALLI- For being a good friend and a mentor for me. For all your words of support and for being a great guy in general. You deserve your mention here. RYAN FRAME- For sharing with me that awesome book of yours “Thoughts from the unknown” It was really helpful.