Christmas Carol Test

Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is one of the all-time best selling classic books about the holiday season ever written and now, for the first time ever, it is also a professionally designed book test! Here’s the best part… it is TOTALLY readable from front to back; you’ll NEVER find the gaff. Yet, there it is, right in the text, on ever single page; powerful, simple, and immediately useable by novice and expert alike.

A spectator freely selects any page and you know the first word on the page. It’s that simple and direct. No questions asked and nothing is written down. There are no page forces and you never know the page number. Read more

Houdini Book Test

Imagine this: you are sitting waiting for an appointment when someone notices you are reading a book by Harry Houdini. A conversation ensues in which you begin to explain how the classic book penned by this famous magician is purely dedicated to exposing fakes and frauds who use trickery to deceive people into believing that they have ’supernatural’ powers.
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Impromptu Book Test – IBT by Josh Zandman

Any two books are freely chosen. You never see or handle them until the participant puts one in your hand. This can be done anywhere, anytime, with anyone. In fact, it has been! When IBT was first being developed, one of our friends performed it in a book store for someone. The result was so powerful, being able to pick any two books from anywhere in the store, that the participant was visibly shaken!

There is no pre-work, no set-up, no instant stooges, no gaffed books, you don’t have to be a speed reader, she gets to make a totally free choice and after a suitable build up, you instantly reveal the word! Read more

War of the Worlds Book Test by Alexander Blacks and Troy Cherry

This professionally made book test is designed to surpass all of the book tests we have made thus far in terms of functionality and utility. It is another recognizable classic book that can adore your book shelves and sit innocently in plain sight to be used to create a magical mind reading effect that will leave people gasping in disbelief.

Imagine this: you pick up The War of the Worlds and hand it out to be examined. You have an audience member thumb through the pages, tell you how many are in the book, and perhaps even hand it out to others to look out too as you explain that one of the moral dilemmas of having the ability to read minds is that you simply ‘know too much’ about people. But rather than reading her mind directly, you’ve found it is safer to just have her read a book and then project it to you. Read more

The Man Who Knew Too Much – Book Test by Black and Cherry

The Man Who Knew Too Much collection of mysteries was written by Chesterton in 1922. The eight adventures feature the activities of British sleuth Horne Fisher, the man who knew too much, and his best and most trusted friend Harold March.

Imagine this: you pick up The Man Who Knew Too Much and hand it out to be examined. You have an audience member thumb through the pages, tell you how many are in the book, and perhaps even hand it out to others to look out too as you explain that one of the moral dilemmas of having the ability to read minds is that you simply ‘know too much’ about people. But rather than reading her mind directly, you’ve found it is safer to just have her read a book and then project it to you. Read more

Dracula Book Test by Alexander Black and Troy Cherry

The unsurpassable stage, parlor, and yes, even close-up impromptu book test!

Not all book tests are created equal. Unlike other so called book tests, this is a real book; it even has an ISBN. This is the actual 1897 version of Dracula by Bram Stoker, except for the devilishly cleaver gaff woven into its 440 pages of text. Everybody knows Dracula, which means they will never suspect it. Read more