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letters around any way you like.
There is only one is only one ten-letter pattern that I am aware of in this sequence. It is
the one I put there. If you find any others they are the product of your own imagination.
As in the alternate version to the magic square routine, the seeds for the Knight s
Tour variant are sewn earlier in the program. This time, however, you force a word on a
spectator rather than a number. Again, I do this in a book test sequence because it works
logically into my show. Three people select words from books. Again, I use Larry Becker s
Flashback to peek the first and third spectator s selections. I use of of Flashback s built in
forces to force the word (in this example) lumberjack on the second spectator. I succeed
in revealing the first and third spectator s words, but fail completely on the second. Ias the
show progresses I keep asking the volunteer to concentrate on her word, but finally I
apparently give up and basically ignore her until the end of the show. (You may, of course,
force a workd using any method you please. I have on occasion, done the effect
impromptue simply by riffle forcing a page in a borrowed book. A short page in one of
your own books would work just as well.
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BOB CASSIDY
Just prior to performing the Knight s Tour , I hand a sealed envelope to one of the
spectator s who have come onstage to act as judges of the legality of the moves I will make
with the Knight. I ask another one of the volunteers to act as recording secretary and to
write down on a piece of paper the sequence of moves that I call during the demonstration.
At the conclusion of the demonstration I thank the volunteers and the rest of the group
for being a great audience. Looking toward the woman whose thought I failed to receive
earlier in the program, I say, I m sorry I missed your thought, but I had a strange
feeling last night that I would run into some difficulty in today s demonstration. It s
not your fault, it s just some kind of mental block I sometimes run into. Earlier I
tried three times to get your thought and failed each time. I don t think you know it,
but while I was demonstrating the Knight s Tour, I tried to get your thought one
more time. And you know what? I don t know if I did it or not!
Just before we began I handed this gentleman a sealed envelope. It contains a
fragment of a strange dream I had last night. Sir would you please open the
envelope and bring it over to me? Thank you. I m going to read what it says to the
audience and I would like you, sir, to read silently along with me to verify that I am
not just making this up as I go along. . . here s the important part, and I dreamed
that when I reached square twenty-three, I would follow a different path then usual
for the next nine moves.
That is what I wrote, isn t it sir?
The volunteer verifies that I have read the letter accurately. I ask the person who
recorded the moves to walk over to the board and call out the letter marked in square 23.
She states that it is an L
I ask the woman in the audience to tell us if that was the first letter of the work she
was thinking of. (Of course, it is.) The volunteer by the board calls out the letters in the next
nine squares I landed on. Each time the woman in the audience verifies that the letters
called are the letters of her word.
My Knight has spelled the word Lumberjack , the very word I had failed to discern
earlier.
Believe me, this is powerful stuff. The climax is almost eerie because it seems so
impossible.
The method should be obvious to you by know. Look at the last photograph and see
how Lumberjack the word I forced on the second spectator in the book test, is spelled
out by the moves 23, 8, 14, 24, 7, 22, 5, 15, 32, 47. If the spectator who calls your starting
move calls a number that would split the prediction sequence, simply say something like,
That s the third time this week I ve started from that part of the board.. How about giving
me a challenge.?
I never showed The Number of the Beast in the program. I could have if I d wanted to, for
it, too, is a Flashback book.
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MIND EXPLOSIONS
It s a book that serves its purpose simply by being there.
May it serve you as well.
-23- (again?)
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