“Every time a mentalist
picks up a prop,
his price goes down.”
—anon
“Mentalism ain’t cheap, ain’t easy, ain’t for beginners.”
—Harris A. Solomon, 1956
(IBM President, 1960–61)
“We need the number of people who want to make great art
to outnumber the number of people who want to be famous.
—Derek DelGaudio

Here you’ll find …


… an Excel spreadsheet for exploring and designing sequential stacks in the “Si Stebbins style


… a printable practice form for constructing magic squares


… a simple, yet effective, (on-line) tool for learning and practising memorized deck stacks, from Joe Williamson


… a fully fledged, free, Windows-based application for modelling & working with deck stacks, from Nick Pudar


… a programmable (on-line) application for the inveterate deck fiddler, allowing experimention with the effects of various deck manipulations on stack orders, from Allistair Crompton


… three construction tools for prefix trees (magicians typically call these “branching/progressive anagrams”, though they actually have nothing to do with anagrams): the simple (Windows) classic from Peter Lipp, and two online versions, one from Maxime Helier, and a more specialized one from Kevin M. Dunn


… two automated tools from mentalist Bart Nijs, one for simple forcing matrices (such as explained on this site), and one for the Jack London matrix force (used in numerous plots, beginning with London’s own “Almost Real Prediction”).


… a set of oracle-specific practice tools for readers (embodying a clearly-defined context for each reading):

Tarot Cards (complete pack)

Tarot Cards (trumps only)

Zener Symbols (5)

Zener Symbols (3)

Playing Cards

Druid Sticks

Numbers

Psycards

Runes


Additional items will likely follow in time.