
“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
… two simple, yet effective, (on-line) tools for learning and practising memorized deck stacks, one from Joe Williamson, the other from from Curtis Wallen
… a fully fledged, free, Windows-based application for modelling & working with deck stacks, from Nick Pudar
… 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
… several automated tools from mentalist Bart Nijs, including one for simple forcing matrices (such as explained on this site), one for the Jack London matrix force (used in numerous plots, beginning with London’s own “Almost Real Prediction”), and one for generating number strips that can be used as Mental Logs. Additionally, Dor Engel offers a more specialized tool for the Jack London force, using only the set of integers from one to nine (meaning that only certain numbers can be forced)
… a collection of template-making tools from M.H. van der Velde for the construction of customized envelopes, boxes, bags, and other containers
… 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.
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