I'm currently writing a paper for my English class, and I need some sort of trick that can be performed through text. It can involve math or mentalism. So do you guys know of any tricks that can be conveyed through writing?
Thanks in advance!
You may want to look into a Magic Square and even perform it for the class up on the board. Get it down fast and play it up correctly and it fries people.
Quite honestly, I ALWAYS ask for someone's phone number and tell them I'm going to send them a text, but they can't look at it. I text them something like "you will choose the 5 of <3 ;D" I then force said card and leave it face down on the table. Then, I show all cards are different. I give them the option to look at the card or text first. It ALWAYS kills, I've even gotten screams from it. Then I'll usually have them open the camera on their phone and go into Smile by Justin Miller.
You might wanna look into Paralies by Joshua Quinn theres a nice effect in there it is called Xijatsey check it out.
Xijatsey is an interesting concept, but no so much an effect, also the suggested procedure used in conjunction would not work within the context of a paper.
Personally I would look into something like? Nu-Sense by Allan Nu, it would be the closest thing to being able to work under your conditions.
However the real question is why do you want to do it?
If you are looking at using actual text book text there are hundreds of things available to you and not all them "book test" type sequences. Ted Lesley has a cute twist using his Teleport Envelope in which a page in a book is apparently removed and ends up in the sealed empty envelope for an example (the page is missing from the same book that was inspected previously and held by a participant).
You might be able to do a version of "Between the Lines" which is one of my favorite bits.
When it comes to Book Tests, they don't all involve words; why not draw a picture of an image they are looking at in the book (or just describe it)?
If you have a decent sense of memory you could force a book and the page only to "recite" a poem or quote found on the page in question. . . certainly a decent climax to a Book Test type bit. Then again, you might memorize two or three different sections used alternative forces for the page number (there's plenty of them that are clean) so as to prove that you've apparently memorized the whole book. . . of course, that could get you into sheep dip later when your teachers question you on homework assignments and test scores. . .
Use your imagination!
David Blaine has one in his book. He finds your card thru text, It was pretty cool. I don't know the name of it. He also did it on stage once while the whole audience had a deck of cards. I found this pretty weird I mean I think it would be easier to perform a stage trick for them to all see? But They seemed to enjoy it.