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 Thank you for buying the
eXtreme SvenPad® Supreme Book
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In this book you will find many different ways to use your SvenPads®. From very easy
to the most advanced handlings, set-ups and demonstrations, but most important is
that you really want to entertain people. So go out there and hit them hard!

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Copyright © John van der Linden 2017

All rights reserved, with the exception of short quotations for the purpose of a review, no part of this
book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, stored in a retrieval
system, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author John van der
Linden. The demonstrations, ideas and special handling and tips in this book are for you to use but not
to share. Keep the secrets a secret! You can make as many SvenPads® you like, but if you want to
distribute, share or sell SvenPads® from the ideas and tips in this book, you need written permission of
the author John van der Linden. Contact the author for more information. All e-books are secretly coded
visibly and invisibly with name and e-mail address. The book is yours to keep and licensed to one person
only. Your Personal Code can be used for extra privileges if they come available, like free videos etc.
Please do not copy! If we find illegal copies or if someone breaks the copyright we will take legal action.

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 Foreword by Brett Barry

By Brett Barry

Never underestimate a little pad of paper.

Over the Summer of 2015, I approached my friend Craig Filicetti, the owner of
ProMystic at his workshop. On a lark I asked him what he thought of the idea of my
making some high quality Svengali style notepads using ultra tight 1/45” precision
tolerances for the long and short cuts for our personal performance use.

Like many Mentalists, we had been making our own homemade Svengali pads for
years, using a paper cutter and about an hour of our time. Craig said he would gladly
buy half of whatever stock I made. In many cases the quality was uneven and time
consuming – but the pads worked. What I set out for was something that raised the
bar to a new level.

A few weeks later I showed Craig what my manufacturer had made, and his eyes
literally popped out: he could not believe the quality, and further he could almost not
see the imperceptible long & short cuts. He was sold.

Craig not only bought some, but he strongly encouraged me to sell them to the
Mentalism and Magic community – he said that every performer would want one, and
they were the finest quality he had ever seen. These new high quality SvenPads®
were no paper tiger – and they were destined to be a worldwide phenomenon.

Fast forward to today. As many know, the SvenPads® have become a massive
sensation among working pros and hobbyists alike and seen on America’s Got Talent
and Britain’s Got Talent. Pros like Marc Salem, Lior Manor, Oz Pearlman, Apollo

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Robbins, Bob Cassidy, Luca Volpe, Justin Willman, Jon Stetson, and many more have
fallen in love with their SvenPads and trust them for their shows.

The SvenPad® line has expended far beyond those original pocket size SvenPads® to
a wide variety of styles, but all share one important commonality: they represent a
perfect blank palette for your imagination.

The beauty and sheer power of the SvenPad® (in any style) is both its innocence and
the fact that you can force any word, idea or drawing “hands free” in any language
with zero heat on the pad itself.

Yet the #1 question many buyers ask when they get their shiny new SvenPads® is,
“what can I (or should I) do with them?” This is the eternal question, and since the
SvenPad is a true utility prop, it is essential to have some routines and make the pad
one of a kind.

Enter the mind-expanding creativity of professional Mentalist John Van Der Linden of
the Netherlands, who dedicated countless to this “The eXtreme SvenPad® Supreme
eBook” you are now reading.

My initial connection with John Van Der Linden was when I helped him some years
ago in proofreading his bestselling teleFoto eXtreme eBook. Based on that wonderful
experience, I discovered that John has a unique way of seeing utility props because of
his extensive knowledge of mentalism. John simply knows that strong performances
are built on a solid foundation entertaining and memorable performances using the
best possible tools.

John purchased a set of the original pocket size SvenPads® almost one year ago, and
I think for him it was “love at first flip.” John keyed right in the quality, but more
importantly he was inspired to create. Then after countless back and forth emails
John proposed the idea of the ultimate book for the SvenPads® of about 100 pages.
The challenges were that many of John’s ideas were in his mother tongue (Dutch)
plus the 9 hour time difference with Phoenix.

Fast forward to today and the seeds of that original idea by John – for a book
dedicated to be absolute best guide to the SvenPads® - exploded to comprehensive
321 page treasure chest of unique SvenPad® ideas you are about to discover.

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With this eXtreme SvenPad® Supreme eBook, John has served up the ultimate
mentalists “cookbook” containing fantastically innovative routines, super clever
methods, ultra-smart handling tips, and a what he hopes will be a launching pad (pun
intended) for your creativity.

This is exactly the kind of book that the thousands of SvenPad® buyers have been
clamoring for on our private Facebook users page – a detailed roadmap and
springboard to demonstrate how an innocent pad of paper can (and will) slay
audiences… and yet never be suspected.

Get ready as you will discover within these pages a vast wealth of both new and
classic ideas that will generate many of those wonderful “aha!” moments. John’s
strength is his out of the box thinking and I guarantee that working performers will all
be deliciously inspired and impressed with the clever possibilities, routines and tips
that will help you make your SvenPads® uniquely your own. The ideas here
encompass nearly every imaginable use for your pads. John has rounded up many of
the best handling tips, and distilled them all for you here.

I know that John has poured his passion and stretched his creativity to the limits with
the release of this incredible eBook. Now it is up to all of us to build and expand upon
his inspirations. This eBook is destined to be the SvenPad® bible, and an important
resource in the years to come.

The SvenPad® remains the world’s best forcing tool because it is unique as you are.
Combine the pads with this powerful eBook, and it is now in your hands to amaze.

Enjoy, and once again kudos to John van der Linden for the hundreds of hours of
effort and testing that he put forth in creating this ultimate roadmap for the
SvenPad® Supreme.

Fasten your seatbelts – you are in for an incredible and fun ride.

January 2017

The name SvenPad® is owned and trademarked by Brett Barry

and may not be used commercially without his express written permission.

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Introduction
I’m in love with magic and mentalism for over 40 years and about 15 years ago I
started performing mentalism only, or as many now call it Pure Mentalism. I like to
utilize the smallest number of props possible and prefer items that I can borrow on
the fly, so that not a soul would suspect tricks or gimmicks. As I wrote in my prior
book, the teleFoto eXtreme eBook, my preferred tools are my brain and my mind.
With my mind (my control center), I may observe, communicate, influence, hypnotize
and interact with the people around me, and my brain is the perfect hiding place for
my memory systems, mathematical principles, and linguistic abracadabra. It has also
been a repository of information for me as long as I have lived, it controls my
emotions and it’s the engine of my body. I consider the mind and brain to be the
perfect weapons for a mentalist.

In 1999 I watched Derren Brown’s brilliant video ‘The Derren Brown Lecture’ one of
the most inspiring mentalism videos together with Bob Cassidy’s Mental Miracles
from about the same period. The information taught on these videos was pure gold
and timeless! The demonstrations were very strong and highly entertaining. The
legendary Bob Cassidy showed us how to present mentalism and how to capture your
audience. He did this in a very entertaining and sophisticated way. Both videos were
rare examples of full shows, which unfortunately was something that over time
became nearly impossible to find.

The two classic performance videos I mentioned above are to magicians and
mentalists what Michael Jackson’s Thriller album was for modern music. They
represented a kind of timeless blueprint for inspiring thousands of ideas, effects and
demonstrations and thanks to these two videos, I made the most important decision I
ever made in terms of my direction as a performer. I decided to stop performing
classic magic tricks (that to this day I love so much!), and embarked on performing
Pure Mentalism. The result was that my audiences experienced far stronger reactions
at every show going forward.

I made the right decision!

This was the best thing I have ever done for magic as long as I’m into magic.

I still love all the classic magic, I still love to watch magicians at work and yes I still
perform some classic magic with friends and family in private with people that already
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know me as a magician from the past but never in a paid show or for strangers.
Mentalism can be so strong, for me now a minute of ‘real’ mind to mind interaction
has more impact than many hours of the magic I used to do. Reactions are so much
stronger and people keep talking longer about the things I did.

But what does this all have to do with Brett Berry’s SvenPads®...?

Two words:

REAL IMPACT!!!

Real impact - that is what strong mentalism is all about. One of the effects on
Derren’s Video Lecture was called “Reminiscence,” a super strong mind reading
demonstration that uses the Svengali principle. Derren really created a piece of pure
gold here. That was the moment I fall in love with this principle as a method. The trick
deck that many people knew about since childhood was used in a very clever way
now. I made and used my own versions but I was never really happy with the result
until 2011 Paul Brook & Collin McLeod wrote their wonderful book “This Way Up”
which utilized the Svengali idea with homemade notepads. This was a 200 copy
limited edition and I am the proud owner of book #39. I love Paul’s routines, a really
great way to start a conversation filled with many subtleties and the way he used
these memories made it a killer demonstration. After reading “This Way Up” the ideas
kept coming. I immediately started creating my first home made Svengali type pads. I
really loved how the boring and “no respect” Svengali decks had now morphed to
being used for ordinary pads - but sadly I was never able to make a perfect Svengali
pad. The pads I made worked but they were always trimmed a bit inconsistently, too
thin or too small - or just didn’t work very well. Most of the time it was just visible
that I cut every other page myself. They also took very long to make by hand. So
when I received my first real SvenPad® Supreme, I could not believe my eyes and
how they felt, to describe them in one word:

PERFECT!

After all these years, I finally know I never have to worry about making the pads again
and I can work the wonders I created over the years as a fan of this principle -
because if you prepare your pads wisely they can open doors to some of the
strongest mind reading demonstrations possible.

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As a fan of these Devilish Pads I created my own demonstrations and wrote down my
ideas but I also took the basic ideas to new levels. Brett and I discussed these notes I
made over the years and we decided it was best to write a small eXtreme SvenPad®
e-book that has been growing and growing...

You are now reading the results and I really hope you like it! And really use the ideas
presented in this book.

Use it with all SvenPad® Supreme users that truly seek to get the maximum out of
these PERFECT PADS.

You will find ideas that will take these pads to new levels. You will discover not only
many valuable subtleties and tips, but I also added a few high-end mentalism
demonstrations that I hope you will make your own and perform with the love and
passion they deserve.

Netherlands

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 Special thanks to

Brett Barry

For creating the most perfect SvenPads® ever!

My first e-book the teleFoto eXtreme e-book was a big success

and this would not have been possible without your help.
Brett you are a real pal!

All proofreaders that helped me

with corrections and grammar

English is not my first language and they all proofread 20 pages of the book
(and Brett even more) and they corrected all the spelling and grammar mistakes they
could find!

Brett Barry
Luke Brady
Andy Hofer
Preston Heller

And some very special thanks to:

Gordon Bellefeuille
and

Jerry Dunn

For proofreading and correcting the last 200 pages!

*And sorry Justin Lewis that you couldn’t open the Word document, but thanks anyway!

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 IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL READERS!
If you read this book from start to finish (without skipping pages) including the introduction above, the
examples and demonstrations will be much easier to understand!

Keep the Secrets a Secrets

As with all magic, the methods are our secrets, without these secrets there is no magic. I hope you will
respect that all the demonstrations, ideas and tips in this book are for you to use but not to share. Keep
the secrets a secret! You can make as many SvenPads® you like, but if you want to share or sell pads
with the ideas in this book, you need written permission from the author. Contact the author for more
information. All e-books are secretly coded with a name and e-mail. Do not copy!

TV Rights and YouTube!

Naturally you can perform all the effects in this book everywhere you want, we even encourage you to
do so but please keep in mind that you do not share or even worse give away the method in any way. It’s
better not to upload your full performance video’s on YouTube. Instead cut your video and only show
the revelations and audience reactions, you will not only protect the secret but you will have a much
better video too!

And best of all... YOU WILL LOOK LIKE A PRO!

PLEASE READ! - MAGIC CAFÉ, FACEBOOK…

Important note for all FORUMS, MAFIC CAFÉ, FACEBOOK and other open media
users. If you discuss any of the ideas, effects or handlings in this book than refer to
them in a way that you will not give away the idea or the method. Instead of
explaining how things are done, refer to the names e.g.:

“I have used Dream Handling 1 with a Multi-Force-Pad” or “I used the eXtreme

Handling with a Devil Pad to force 3 items with one pad and added a the Long
Number Stunt and a price to…” instead of a describing too many details.

This way all readers that own this book will immediately know what you mean and
how you combined these gems to create something really special.

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IMPORTANT TIP FOR SUPERFAST NAVIGATION
This index is clickable, the word INDEX at the bottom of each page will bring you back here

INDEX - Table of Contents

Foreword by Brett Barry ......................................................................... 5

IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL READERS! ...............................................12

PLEASE READ! - MAGIC CAFÉ, FACEBOOK… ................................................................ 12

Basic Ideas .................................................................................................23

Make it personal and create a story! ..................................................................................... 23

Very important note! ................................................................................................................. 25

Basic SvenPad® ideas: .............................................................................................................. 27

Karma Sutra ..............................................................................................31

VIDEO ............................................................................................................................................. 31

Combine ideas! ............................................................................................................................ 31

Reverse Cowgirl ........................................................................................................................... 32

IMPORTANT .............................................................................................34

A true story… ...........................................................................................35

The Dream Handling 1 ...........................................................................41

STEP 1: Dream Handling Starting Position .......................................................................... 42

STEP 2: Spectator riffles through the pages ....................................................................... 43

Step 3 (If required!): Concentrate Position ......................................................................... 44

Follow these three rules: ........................................................................................................... 45

The Safety Handling! ..............................................................................46

Another Bonus of the Safety Handling................................................................................. 47

The Devil Pad............................................................................................49

Preparation ................................................................................................................................... 50

Handling tips ................................................................................................................................ 51

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The eXtreme Pad™ ..................................................................................52
Set-Up 1: OPEN UPWARDS every time (recommended) ................................................. 55
The Turn.................................................................................................................................. 57

Set-Up 2: OPEN DOWNWARDS every time ......................................................................... 58

Two Identical ‘Front’ Covers .............................................................................................. 59
The Markings......................................................................................................................... 60

Important Note! .......................................................................................................................... 60

For the eXtrementalists only: ............................................................................................ 61

Adding extra information is key! ........................................................63

Use this list ................................................................................................................................... 65

How to fill your SvenPad® ...................................................................67

Writings ......................................................................................................................................... 67

Numbers ........................................................................................................................................ 68

Spectator as a Mind-Reader .................................................................................................... 68

With a Thin Line… ....................................................................................................................... 68

Star Sign Revelation ...............................................................................70

ACAAN .......................................................................................................71

Lucky Lotto ...............................................................................................72

Locks ...........................................................................................................73

Long Number Stunt ................................................................................74

Pin-Code Killer! ........................................................................................75

Over 5000 different Pin-Codes!! ............................................................................................. 76

Pin-Code Killer really kills! ....................................................................................................... 80

2 to 4 people is more amazing and much easier to perform! ........................................ 81

SvenPads® Without Limits… ...............................................................83

Drawings ....................................................................................................................................... 83

Pictures .......................................................................................................................................... 84

Markings and Liquid .................................................................................................................. 86

Always use real Photo Paper! .................................................................................................. 86

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The Split Pad.............................................................................................87

SvenPads® On Hoy! ...............................................................................89

Create Multiple Different Force Pages!!! ..........................................90

Use the Easy Pumping Safety-Net ......................................................................................... 90

Post-It notes .............................................................................................92

COLORS.......................................................................................................................................... 93

eXtremely Creative SvenPads® ...........................................................95

Example: ........................................................................................................................................ 97

Make up stories! ......................................................................................................................... 99

The Mini Museum!!! ................................................................................................................... 99

Create an amazing story telling pad ............................................................................... 99
Example ................................................................................................................................ 100

A Pad filled with Memories... ................................................................................................ 101

Mixed Emotions ..................................................................................... 102

The real power of the demonstration! ................................................................................ 103

Emoticons ................................................................................................ 105

Fortune Telling SvenPads® ................................................................ 108

Murder Mystery ..................................................................................... 109

The Psychological Inkblot Test .......................................................... 110

The real power of this effect… .............................................................................................. 115

Over 10 Reveals!?! .................................................................................................................... 116

The Circus or Zoo moment! ................................................................................................... 117

Bonus: The Music ...................................................................................................................... 117

The Zoo ........................................................................................................................................ 121

The emergency out (I never needed it but…) ................................................................... 124

SOME EXTRA IDEAS! ................................................................................................................ 124

- What if we don’t mention the elephant?!?? .................................................................... 124

The important subtleties ........................................................................................................ 125

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 How to create your own Inkblot Test Pad?! ...................................................................... 128

Buy Now ...................................................................................................................................... 129

Linda Loopers Diary .............................................................................. 130

All SvenPads® in a row ....................................................................... 132

The Original SvenPads® ......................................................................................................... 133

SvenPads® - The Next Generation ...................................................................................... 134

The SvenPad® Mini.................................................................................................................. 134

The Sven Notes .......................................................................................................................... 135

The Triple Bank SvenPads® ................................................................................................... 137

The Perfect Pen ......................................................................................................................... 139

Psychological Inkblot Test Pad ............................................................................................. 140

The SvenPad® KøD Spiral Pad .............................................................................................. 141

Stage Size SvenPad® KøD Spiral Pad ................................................................................. 142

Ungimmicked SvenPad® Power ....................................................... 144

The Switch................................................................................................................................... 145

Bold but important................................................................................................................... 145

Other ways to get info ............................................................................................................ 146

Riffle force 1 ........................................................................................................................ 146
Riffle force 2 ........................................................................................................................ 146
Peek (page numbers) ........................................................................................................ 146
Peek (Mnemonics) ............................................................................................................. 147
Growing is Knowing .......................................................................................................... 147
Peek (a code) ....................................................................................................................... 147

The Bold and the Beautiful .................................................................................................... 148

A Large Pile of SvenPads®! ................................................................ 149

1) Magicians Choice ................................................................................................................ 149

2) Just a pile of real SvenPads® ........................................................................................... 151

The Game Show ..................................................................................... 153

Make it visual!............................................................................................................................ 153

Imagine! ...................................................................................................................................... 154

Game Control ......................................................................................... 155

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 Method ........................................................................................................................................ 155
Price-Pads ............................................................................................................................ 155
Game-Pads........................................................................................................................... 155
Important: ............................................................................................................................ 156
Subtlety ................................................................................................................................. 156

Price .............................................................................................................................................. 157

Bonus Prediction ................................................................................................................ 157

Sven Inception 1 by Brett Barry ........................................................ 158

PREPARATION: .................................................................................................................... 158
ROUTINE: .............................................................................................................................. 159

Sven Inception 2 .................................................................................... 163

In short: ....................................................................................................................................... 163

Important Note on Hypnosis! ............................................................ 166

John Dream! ............................................................................................................................... 167
Why do I prefer people that doubt more than people who believe what I do is
real? ....................................................................................................................................... 168

Hypnosis and Fake hypnosis. ................................................................................................ 168

The eXtreme Dream Handling ........................................................... 170

Explanation: ................................................................................................................................ 170
The fun thing about this handling ................................................................................. 174

eXtreme Mentalism Book ................................................................... 175

The Multi-Force-Pad™ ......................................................................... 176

Method ........................................................................................................................................ 177

COLORS........................................................................................................................................ 178
Openly select ....................................................................................................................... 179
Cue Card or Quick Peek ................................................................................................... 179
Memorize ............................................................................................................................. 179
Peek a Color ........................................................................................................................ 179
Force ...................................................................................................................................... 180
High Tech ............................................................................................................................. 180
Mix up the information! ................................................................................................... 180
Other Multi-Force-Pad™ ideas ....................................................................................... 181
Repeat Performances ........................................................................................................ 181
Numbers ............................................................................................................................... 182
Resume ................................................................................................................................. 182

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Double Sided SvenPads® ................................................................... 183
Method ........................................................................................................................................ 183

Take note! ................................................................................................................................... 184

Pink by Christopher Taylor ................................................................. 185

Requirements ...................................................................................................................... 187
Appendix .............................................................................................................................. 188
Grade One Spelling Words for Pink......................................................................... 189

Mental Tattoo ........................................................................................ 190

‘The Which Arm Bonus’ ........................................................................................................... 191

A Multi-Force Tattoo-Pad™ ................................................................................................... 192

Double-Sided-Tattoo-SvenPad® ......................................................................................... 192

Dummy-Pads™ .......................................................................................................................... 193

Another Bonus: .......................................................................................................................... 194

PRE SHOW............................................................................................... 195

Pre Show - Variation 1 ............................................................................................................. 195

Pre-Show - Variation 2 ............................................................................................................ 197

Corporate or Trade Show Magic ....................................................... 200

Post-It’s Notes ....................................................................................... 202

Stull Watch .............................................................................................. 203

The Time you were Born ..................................................................... 203

Skull Watch Impromptu .......................................................................................................... 203

Rainbow ................................................................................................... 204

Rainbow eXtreme! ................................................................................ 206

Preparation .......................................................................................................................... 206
The Experiment!.................................................................................................................. 206
Important: ............................................................................................................................ 207
Let them take another Picture!!! .................................................................................... 210
How to write your name .................................................................................................. 211

Tips and Ideas ............................................................................................................................ 212

The Instax Mini Camera .................................................................................................... 212
The Instax Mini Printer ...................................................................................................... 213
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 Instax Mini Film .................................................................................................................. 213

Another idea by Brett Barry ............................................................... 214

HypnoPad™............................................................................................. 215
Force the imagination ....................................................................................................... 216
The Real Secret ................................................................................................................... 217
Real Mind Reading ............................................................................................................ 220

Important tip… .......................................................................................................................... 220

My advice: ............................................................................................................................ 221

The Sexy Pad™ ....................................................................................... 222

Handling: ..................................................................................................................................... 224

I personally really like this picture: CLICK HERE ............................................................... 226

The Universal SvenPad! ....................................................................... 228

The real benefits of a USP™ ............................................................... 230

Fear Factor .............................................................................................. 231

How to create a real showpiece! ....................................................... 234

How many numbers should you use ................................................................................... 236

The number 7-Force ................................................................................................................. 236

Don’t forget this… .................................................................................................................... 237

The Universal Devils Pad......................................................................................................... 237

Mental Taste ........................................................................................... 238

eXtreme Russian Roulette! ................................................................. 239

WARNING! .................................................................................................................................. 239

DO NOT PERFORM! .................................................................................................................. 242

The Safe Version .................................................................................... 243

Force First!............................................................................................... 244

The Ugly Pad .......................................................................................... 245

The LøK-Pad™ ........................................................................................ 247

“A Svengali Pad without short cut pages?!” ................................................................ 247
Adapted handlings: ........................................................................................................... 248

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The eXtreme KøD Handling ................................................................ 250
Preparation ................................................................................................................................. 250

The Real-Time set-up: ............................................................................................................. 251

Performance ........................................................................................................................ 252

(eXtreme) Sing a Song 2...................................................................... 256

The real power… ....................................................................................................................... 257

Bonus ........................................................................................................................................... 257

eXtreme: COLOR MATCH .................................................................... 258

Four O’clock ............................................................................................ 262

Truth or Dare .......................................................................................... 263

Combining ideas from this book is ...................................................................................... 263

the real power of this book! .................................................................................................. 263

Rain Man.................................................................................................. 264

Examples ..................................................................................................................................... 266
Answers................................................................................................................................. 269

Presentation ............................................................................................................................... 270

Some More Pain ........................................................................................................................ 270

eXtreme Rain Man ................................................................................ 271

Method ........................................................................................................................................ 272

Mnemonic ................................................................................................................................... 272

Starting Number (SN) ....................................................................................................... 274
The Calculations ................................................................................................................. 274
eXtreme Rain Man Diagram ............................................................................................ 276
All outcomes including Yellow: ...................................................................................... 282
Important notes! ............................................................................................................... 282

The Lie Detector Pad ............................................................................ 284

Mind Reading ......................................................................................... 286

SvimPressionPads™ .............................................................................. 288

1. Ali Nouira - Steam ................................................................................................................ 288

2. ParaLabs - ParaFoil .............................................................................................................. 288

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 3. Jan Forster’s - ForsterPad .................................................................................................. 289

The SvimPressionPad™ ........................................................................ 290

Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 292

My cover-up handling ............................................................................................................. 294

Handling: ..................................................................................................................................... 295

Loose page and Flaps .............................................................................................................. 295

SvenTop 1 (Another Impression Device variation) ...................... 296

SvenTop 2 (Another Impression Device variation) ...................... 296

SvenTop 3 (Another Impression Device variation) ...................... 296

eXtreme Thief™...................................................................................... 299

Example 1 The Pocket ....................................................................................................... 300
The Envelope Steal ............................................................................................................ 303
Lift and peek ........................................................................................................................ 305
The Ultra Clean eXtreme Thief ....................................................................................... 306

Magnetic Impression Material........................................................... 311

Coming Soon! ......................................................................................... 314

WARNING ................................................................................................................................... 314
Special Note to all beginners and hobbyists .............................................................. 319

Special thanks to: .................................................................................. 321

Important links: ..................................................................................... 323

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your
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Basic Ideas
In this chapter I have included a large list of examples to get you going. If you have
read the teleFoto eXtreme e-book you will see some similarities with this list because
most of these basic ideas can be done with the teleFoto app too. Basic because in
these examples you will only know what was forced, but later you will learn how to
use these ideas in a more complex way and how to combine them.

Make it personal and create a story!

Don’t just pick any of these ideas and quickly make a SvenPad® and just tell them
what they are thinking. Create a story! A story that belongs to you. The story must be
the reason that you have that note pad with you!!!

As with most things in mentalism the more personal you make it the better you will
connect, the better they remember and the more interesting the demonstration will
be. Dress up your story with emotions. Emotions have direct impact, drench your
story’s with emotional moments and use love, happiness, sadness, amazement,
bizarre, weird and amazing moments but most of all MAKE IT REAL!

Use emotions in your story!

Make it personal!
Make it real!

I strongly believe that presentation is everything! Your presentation is the most

important thing you do... So please take your time to plan your presentations well.

Think about what you would like to achieve

How to make each performance more personal, entertaining, interesting and

mysterious for you and your audience
And how you will act reading their mind
How to make it more visual, emotional and REAL!

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Ask yourself these important questions while planning your presentations. I have not
included full presentations with each and every idea but in this book you will find
many tips and ideas to get you going.

Simply calling out the information you forced on your subject is a big mistake!
It will kill the mystery you are hoping for. The method may be simple, but in the right
hands with the right demonstration your SvenPads® will kill!

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Very important note!

The power of EVERY SVENPAD® DEMONSTRATION

completely depends on how well you CONVINCE your
audience AND your helper(s) that there is SOMETHING
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT at EVERY PAGE of THE PAD!

I have seen performers just quickly show a few pages with different names and
immediately hand over the pad to the helper to force a name.

I have even seen a mentalist that I respect a lot that didn’t even show that all
pages are different to his helper (only to the audience).

The innocence of the pad and the way you show that all pages ‘really’ are
different is the power of the SvenPads®, never forget this!

It is because these Pads are so easy to handle that some Mind Readers just
forget the most important feature:

CONVINCE them that

ALL PAGES are DIFFERENT!!!

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make
every
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a one
of a kind

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Basic SvenPad® ideas:
These may be called the basic but don’t underestimate the power of the list below!
Every idea in the list below can be used to create a very powerful SvenPad®.
Remember you can make every idea special, especially if you use the tips and ideas
in the following chapters…

Names
I think SvenPads® with celebrity names have been used the most and it’s a great
effect when you know the name they are thinking of. But these names don’t
necessarily need to be names from famous people, movie stars or other celebrities.

What about a more personal list like a list of personal friends, family or a list with of
old lovers from the past!? Or a more bizarre pad with living and death people, or even
a list of famous serial killers!

Cards
Naturally you could make a pad with a drawing of cards or written whichever way you prefer

Numbers
Know any number they are thinking of... Any number!
See the tips for extreme long numbers in the next chapter.

Colors
Know which color they are thinking of with many pages with different colors

Animals
Know the animal they would compare themselves with! Write or draw your animals!

Countries
Know which country they would like to visit for a vacation

Candy
Know their favorite candy!

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Know their favorite food, or what they choose to eat! What if you really have 50
different foods or drinks on the table!?

Drinks
Know what drink they (would) like!

Star signs!
Know the chosen star sign

Cars
Know what car they are thinking of, or what car they would love to own!

Presidents
Know which president they are thinking of

Drawings
Know what drawing they are thinking of, and do a drawing duplication...

TV Shows
Know which TV Show they are thinking of

Money
Know what bill they are thinking of

Cartoons
Know the name of the Cartoon figure they are thinking of

Shopping
Know what they have chosen to buy in a virtual shop

Sports
Know any sport they are thinking of and maybe even the result of the game

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Know any time they are thinking of (drawings of different watches and clocks)

Fingers
You could draw the outlines of a hand on every page and know how many fingers
they hold up

Professions
Know any profession they are thinking of (or what they want to be)

Hotel Names
Know what hotel they have chosen and or what room numbers

Transportation
Know what kind of transportation they have in mind

Buildings
Know which building they are thinking of

Places
Know the places they have visited, or wish to visit

Brands
Know their favorite brand

Restaurants
Know their favorite restaurant (and food and drinks)

Traditions
Know which tradition they are thinking of

(Bad) Habits
Know which bad habits they secretly have!

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Things to do
Imagine how many things you could show on these pages...

Skills
What skills they have, or don’t have!

Movies
Know the movie they have in mind

Amusement Parks
Know their favorite park, or even their favorite rides!!!

Optical Illusions
Tell them the mind has to work harder when they are concentrating on an optical
illusion...

Newspaper Headline
Know the chosen headline

Houses
Be their Realtor and help them connect with their chosen home and give the all
details.

Rituals
On the internet you can find the most amazing, weird and crazy rituals

And even...

Karma Sutra!

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Karma Sutra
A really great example about what you could accomplish with 3 SvenPads® is a
demonstration similar to the funny Sexy Magic demonstration with the prediction
DVD cover by the mazing Barry and Stuart.

Warning: This video contains adult language! And it’s very funny…
VIDEO
Click to see the video:

I included the link to this video to give you an idea of how it could look but please do
not just copy this presentation. It is for Barry and Stuart to use, they are the creators!
Use your imagination and make your own variation. You could use a Devil Pad or 3
SvenPads® (eXtreme Pad set-up) and I don’t think I need to explain that this could be
a very funny mind reading demonstration for the right occasions.

Joke: You could also use a Karma Sutra SvenPad® as a joke to find out your helpers
favorite ‘position’.

Combine ideas!
The list above is a great list with examples for SvenPads® but don’t forget that you
can combine these ideas in almost unlimited ways! If you just quickly read through it
you will probably not see the real value of this list.

You could easily combine Profession, with Skills and Habits and you have a
completely different SvenPad® as you will see in a moment.

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Kama Sutra - Position #37

As an example of how to combine ideas I have included the 37-force. If you ask your
helper to think of a two digit number below 50 and say that both digits need to be
odd but be different, like 13 or 15 but not 11. Most of the time they will pick 37.
Sometimes they will pick 39, you could also cover this number too by writing it first
and then cross it out and write 37 below as if you made a mistake and corrected it.
This way you can say that the spectator picket up the ‘first’ number that you crossed
out. Other ideas would be to write a name (or 2 names) above the Kamasutra drawing
but only on the force pages!

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Drawing Duplication and Extra Information…

You could do a drawing duplication and just let the spectator draw the Kamasutra
position she is thinking of. Standing back to back with you in a way you can both feel
and draw the same Kama Sutra position in almost perfect synchronicity.

Later you can ask if she can see the name of the boy or the girl in her mind and
concentrate on the name(s). Again you will be able to read her mind.

As with most SvenPads® I would create an eXtreme SvenPad® (page 155) for this so
the spectator can check that all pages are different themselves (normally opening
upwards like the force) and the handling will look as clean as possible.

I would probably use 2 or 3 pads to create a complete act like Barry and Stuart did in
the video above but no matter what you do, make it your own.

It’s easy and ideas are almost unlimited,

especially after you have read this book…

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 IMPORTANT
After these basic ideas that enable you to create and combine many and even
hundreds of SvenPads® I want to share with you, what I think is the most important
part of this book and I promise it will change the way you perform and use your
SvenPads® forever, or at least they will if you use them.

There are two groups that are eXtremely important:

1) SPECIAL HANDLING
- New ways to handle your SvenPad® not 50 but 100% hands-off!
Yes, now you can put a SvenPad® on a table and walk away!

2) SPECIAL SET-UP
- New ways to set-up your SvenPad® for extra power.
Yes, now you can have the spectator open the pad upwards to check if all
pages are different and they can open the pad upwards to select a force a
page. Both as if they open a book, both in the hands of the spectator.

You will also learn many other ways to set-up your SvenPads®. Some to
force more than one item, others to make the procedure more clean and
consistent. More forces, more magic, more freedom, more consistency…
More power!

At the last moment before releasing this book I decided to drastically change the
order of the effects and ideas. I had spread all special handlings and all special ways
to set-up your SvenPad® throughout the book, but I now think that it’s much better
and easier if you read and learn the important game changing handlings and ways to
set-up your SvenPad® before we start with some eXtreme demonstrations and ideas.

This way you can decide which handling or set-up suits you best. This can be different
with every SvenPad® you create. For me at the moment I use the Dream Handling
for the pads that I already created for about 95% of the time and most new pads I
set-up as an eXtreme Pad™ because I love the ultra-clean supernatural and
consistent way the spectator can do everything!

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A true story…
When you write your ideas in a book you hope people are going to like and use it
and the only way to know if people really like it is when people give you feedback.
Feedback is the most important thing for me as a writer. You can love an idea and be
successful performing it for lay audiences but you are never 100% sure how much
other mystery entertainers will like it until they have read it and send you some
honest feedback… and feedback is extremely valuable to me. Even though I knew
many effects and ideas are workers and that many ideas are new in mentalism, I’m
still nervous and hoping for positive feedback.

Positive feedback is one of the most rewarding things you can get for writing a book.
Also because I really want all readers to be happy with what they bought and have
real value for money and no pipe dreams! The first feedback I received from the
proofreaders was positive but I kept some ideas from the book and one idea I wanted
to keep a secret until the last moment. Not even Brett or the proofreaders knew
about this idea.

I would lie if I was not confident that a few ideas would be really strong but one idea I
just knew from the beginning that would change the way people perform with
SvenPads®. This idea I was 100% sure about and as with the Psychological Inkblot
Test Pads, the Pin-Code-Killer, The Devils Pad and some others I really knew this
would be successful.

I remember that I was very happy when received some feedback from Brett Barry. He
was really enthusiastic and I told him that he still didn’t read everything jet and that I
left out something very very special… something I called ‘The Dream Handling’.

For a few weeks I teased him with remarks like:

“and you still don’t even know my best ideas jet!”,

“I kept the best card for last”

and so on!

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On June 21th I wrote this e-mail to Brett Barry:

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY!

- What if you could perform your demonstrations completely hands off without any
worries????

- What if you could VERY EASILY put a SvenPad® on the other end of the stage, or
even in another room! And have your helper carefully check the pad to see that every
page is different and also show all people in the audience that all pages are different
without any worries????

- What if you could do that???

- Wouldn’t that be ‘The Dream Handling’???

- Wouldn’t that be the ultimate SvenPad® handling???

- If it was easy to do but only when you just know that little Devilish secret that will be
in the book!!!????

- If you could say;

“Take that note pad, keep it close to you. Please look if every page is different and
please show all pages to the rest of the audience…”

Do you see the value of this… if this was really possible?!

And continue with:

“Now again keep it close to you and select one page. Don’t look jet… you can still
change your mind… Ok select one page” and naturally it will be the force page!

Brett I ask you 3 things and please answer honest:

1. Would this be THE SvenPad® “Dream-Handling”?
2. Wouldn’t it make you smile if this was possible without fear??
3. Don’t you think that EVERY SvenPad® user on the globe WILL use this???

And I closed this e-mail with a very big smiley underneath…

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Very soon received these answers from Brett:

1. Would this be the SvenPad “Dream-Handling”?

BRETT’S ANSWER: “YES! - it would be a dream handling. That is what makes the
SvenPad so powerful is the fact that the force happens in THEIR hands. But to
have it totally hands free - at the other end of a stage or another room? WOW!

2. Wouldn’t it make you smile if this was possible without fear??

BRETT’S ANSWER: “Yes I would not only smile - I would pee in my pants :-)”

3. Don’t you think that EVERY SvenPad user on the globe WILL use this???
BRETT’S ANSWER: “YES! I think all the SvenPad users - or the majority for sure -
would be interested!!”

This was my answer to Brett:

“Haha lol, please buy some diapers!...”
“and I really believe that your 3th answer is wrong because every
SvenPad® user WILL try this. Many magicians all over the world will first
test it out themselves and I have been laughing here with my wife when
I showed her the secret and we both agreed that many mentalist will do
what I did to see if it will work…”

“I have done it over 50 times the past 2 weeks and never had a single
problem. I could even do it to your neighbors that never saw a
SvenPad® ever before right now over the phone or video chat without
any fear of detection…”

“Are you available for a chat for a few minutes without being disturbed?
Maybe I can demonstrate you The Dream Handling?”

I wanted to end the mystery and demonstrate my idea to Brett. Even though I was in
the Netherlands and Brett in Phoenix. I knew it would be easy to demonstrate him
The Dream Handling because it’s a completely hands-off method. Brett wrote me he
was very excited and ready to do a live demonstration over Skype!

I wrote Brett that he needed to get two things ready for this demonstration:

1) A magic wand and

2) A Normal SvenPad®

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So I wrote:
Ok Brett let’s do it. I only hope you have a magic wand! Could you please get it
and put it next to you with a normal SvenPad®. I will Skype you in 5 minutes.

P.S. You really need a magic wand! If you don’t have a magic wand, take
a round stick or something round and a heavy otherwise it won’t work!!!

This e-mail was very important for me as you will read later.

Brett wrote me he was ready and we started our Skype session. The first thing I asked
was if he had a Normal SvenPad® and a Magic Wand. He showed me the pad and
asked if a wooden spoon was ok too. I asked Brett to show me the size of the spoon
he wanted to use and Brett enthusiastically waved a large wooden spoon in front of
the camera asking if it was good. I could immediately guarantee him that the size was
perfect. It was a really large wooden spoon and for what I wanted to demonstrate it
was perfect…

In the next few minutes I demonstrated Brett The Dream Handling and I never forget
his face when he was following my instructions. He looked at me like he was going to
say “and now what?!” or “is this it?!” a look with some disbelieve, but he already did
what I wanted him to do but he didn’t fully realize it yet. I asked him “Brett, please
imagine that you are with a group of people and now just show all pages to these
people in exactly the same way and very slowly!” and again I saw him thinking and
with his mouth slightly open looking a little confused as he again perfectly did what I
asked him to do while I saw that the idea sunk in slowly… and very slowly a very big
smile appeared on his face, and even though I never tested a SvenPad® more than
with The Dream Handling these past weeks, I was so happy to see that smile because
I knew that if it could ‘fool’ Brett it could fool anybody in the world. This way I was
rewarded with the joy I got when I saw Brett repeated the action a few more times for
himself looking so amazed but enjoying The Dream Handling with a very big smile.
And while Brett was toying with The Dream Handling I said; “Do you see how easy it
is?... That’s all you need to do!”

It is really easy, especially when you demonstrate what you want them to do by either
miming the action with an invisible pad or with a real SvenPad® in your hands. In
both cases it will be very clear and a mistake is almost impossible so you can really
use it without fair. Like the hands-off force method The Dream Handling will always
work especially if you are aware of the safety net that I will teach you too.

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For the next few minutes Brett and I were having fun with The Dream Handling and
talked about the possibilities and all benefits The Dream Handling has above the
normal handling and how it adds another very big layer of mystery to the already
perfect SvenPads®.

In the meanwhile Brett could not stop testing The Dream Handling again and again
until one moment he looked at me confused and he asked me:

“But John, why did we need the spoon???”

And he took the spoon in his right hand and showed it to me very confused because
he now realized that the demonstration was over but we didn’t use the ‘magic wand’
that he had been searching for so long.

I looked at him very seriously and slowly answered: “The wooden spoon was very
important. It was for you Brett…”

And I paused for a second… looking at his amazed face…

“That spoon is to hit yourself to the head for not thinking about this yourself…” :-)

I can’t remember that I had so much fun with a fellow magician, we were both
laughing out loud and Brett asked me if that was Dutch humor waving his wooden
spoon ‘magic wand’ in the air to me pretending as if he was angry.

After showing Brett the big secret we talked about SvenPads® for a long time and we
ended the Skype session very deep in the night when the sun already came up and I
went to my bed… with a big smile on my face.

Now you can find out how easy it is,

to use your SvenPads® completely hands-off!

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100
Percent
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The Dream Handling 1
What if you could do the each SvenPad® demonstration completely hands-off ? Not
only the force but even have the spectator check if all pages are empty, all 100%
hands-off? What you will learn here is eXtremely effective and a joy to do. It will add
a powerful layer of deception that is so misleading that it will really boost your
SvenPad® demonstrations enormously.

After demonstrating it to Brett and many others (most non magicians) I kept tweaking
The Dream Handling to make it as easy as possible but at the same time as foolproof
as possible too!

In short I could explain The Dream Handling in one sentence and continue from
there on but there are some very important subtleties you should know too, so here
are the 3 most important steps (most of the time you only need 2 steps) and all the
subtleties you need to know to use The Dream Handling in a really safe way!

STEP 1: Dream Handling Starting Position

STEP 2: Spectator riffles through the pages
STEP 3: Concentrate Position

Let’s assume you have a SvenPad® filled with drawings on a table a few feet away
and you have invited a spectator to assist you and you want her to do all the
handlings so you never have to touch the pad during the performance.

Explain that you have made over a hundred completely different drawings when you
were about 10 years old, that you always kept the notepad you made these drawings
in and that it’s that notepad that is now laying there on the table next to the
spectator.

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STEP 1: Dream Handling Starting Position

The first step is to get your spectator and the SvenPad into the Dream Handling
Starting Position. To do this is very easy but you need to manage your spectator well
and give clear instructions. It’s important that you mimic a little what you want her to
do the moment you say this line:

”Please take that pad on the short sides, with your thumbs on top!”

If you really want to take no risk, you do the same with another notepad or book as
an example to show what you want her to do. This will put her hands in Dream
Handling Starting Position.

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STEP 2: Spectator riffles through the pages

The moment the spectator is in Dream Handling Starting Position show what you
want her to do and say: “Now very slowly rifle down the pages with you right
thumb and you will see that every page has a different drawing on it!

If your helper was in Dream Handling start-position it’s very natural to riffle though
the pages in a way that only the non-force pages will be seen.
When you want your helper to show that all pages are different to the rest of the
audience, you let her do exactly the same thing only pointing the open part of the
SvenPad® to the rest of the audience. To do this you just say: “Now I want all
people to see it too. Please do exactly the same thing, again very slowly and
show the audience that all pages are different…” and point to the audience.

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Step 3 (If required!): Concentrate Position

The Concentrate Position you only use as a safety net when needed if a spectator
changes the handling during the demonstration. Because you present this very
seriously and ask your helper to do all steps slowly you can immediately detect when
a person should change position of the hands or the pad. The moment you see
people start improvising or stop doing the exact Dream Handling you immediately
call out “STOP!!!” in a loud voice and ask them to go into ‘Concentrate Position’.

“STOP! Please put the pad close to your chest, but keep it between both hands
and concentrate”

Again you mime what you want your helper to do. Ask her to look in your eyes and
listen to your voice. Naturally this is all acting and pure to distract your helper and the
audience from the pad and to ‘reset’ them too Dream Handling Starting Position.

What you want is that your helper will hold the pad with the thumbs on top in the
hands keeping the pad to the chest. If you look at your helper you will see the bottom
of the pad and all four fingers of both hands like in the picture above here.
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Use this time to induce some fake trance and special powers, have her take some
deep breaths and/or click your fingers and continue with the Dream Handling.

The Concentrating Position is very important and will serve as a time delay and
distraction without disturbing the flow and at the same time it will act as a safety net
and setup your spectator to get back into Dream Handling Starting Position very
easily.

To get back to Dream Handling Starting Position from Concentrating Position your
helper only needs to stretch her arms and repeat to riffle through the pages as
before, again mime when needed to show her what you want her to do but you will
see that most of the time this is not needed.

The Dream Handling is very easy, if you…

Follow these three rules:

1) Don’t select a troublemaker or a drunk (I prefer a lady).

2) Give your directions seriously, slowly and very clear. Let the spectator know
this is important.
3) Look carefully and call out “STOP!” when needed to reset to Dream Handling
Starting Position with the concentrate position like I just explained.

I have had magicians follow my instructions and they didn’t even notice what they
were really doing! The Dream Handling really is almost as simple as the hand-off
force method 1 that most SvenPad® users use, where you say: “Put the pad on your
flat left hand and put your right hand on top…” and so on. Try it now and you will see!

Later in the book you will also find the Dream Handling 2 that is so devilish that I
called it The eXtreme Dream Handling…

1
I have no idea who came up with the ‘classic’ hands-off force method that I saw first performed by the incredible Oz
Pearlman in America Got Talent. This method is not only very simple but also really genius. ‘As if swearing on a Bible’,
like Oz Pearlman wrote me in an e-mail conversation about who originated the hands-off force method. I have tried
to find out who came up with that idea.

When I asked Oz if he originated this handling this was his modest answer: “Not sure if I saw someone else do it or
originated myself, but honestly don’t need any credit”.

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The Safety Handling!
Always instruct your helper to hold the pad close to the body before they open to the
force page! This is a very important handling you must add to the hands-off force
method many people use already. If you have the spectator put the pad on their open
flat left hand and they hold the pad in a natural way they will look into the opening (I
have seen it many times), this is dangerous because the moment they let go one or
two more pages they could see that these pages are all alike.

If you instruct your spectator to keep the pad very close to the body (with the
opening to the body) before they ‘freely’ select a page it will be much safer to do and
it will add a touch of drama. Mime as if you want them to hold the pad close against
their belly before they riffle to a page and select it.

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Another Bonus of the Safety Handling

Another great benefit of The Safety Handling is that you can ask the spectator if she
wants to let go of a few more pages or if she maybe would like to start again riffling
from the beginning. You could ask this a few times without having to worry that she
will see duplicates of the force page before they make their final choice.

Most of the time I only mime what I want them to do and demand attention with my
eyes only to control and guide everything.

When you want you can say;

“Keep the pad close to your body” but then there is no motivation.

If you say: “Keep the pad close to you'”

And mime what you want them to do,

and add: “so nobody can see it!' This way you have motivation too!

I think the less I have to say the more natural the selection will look in the eyes of the
spectators.

Every instruction you add to the process will reduce the fairness in the eye of your
spectators (again unless you have good motivation)! Sometimes you have to add
instructions and naturally everything must be clear but I think if you start with;

“Please do as I do, I want you to have a 100% free and 100% fair choice!”
and mime like you have an invisible SvenPad they will follow you perfectly!

With the Safety Handling you can avoid many mistakes while at the same time have
a much fairer selection process.

Like the Dream Handling and the Safety Handling you will find other special
handlings later in the book.

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Devilish
SvenPad TM

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The Devil Pad
These are the darkest pages from the book!

THE DEVIL PAD will be the most deceptive

and most misleading SvenPad® bonus ever…

Warning!
‘The author of this book cannot be held responsible for any harm to people
witnessing this in action in any way or form. The use of this Devilish Pad is
100% at your own risk. You are totally responsible for all people that freak
out, scream, pass out or die… ‘

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I admit, that was over the top but it’s a great bonus you can use in every SvenPad®

Imagine being able to force 3 items with 1 ‘normal’ SvenPad®

The Devil Pad is just a ‘normal’ SvenPad® but gimmicked in a very Devilish and
clever way. It’s eXtremely easy to make and to do, it will work flawless every time you
use it and it will be invisible and undetectable. Every pro mentalist WILL use it!

I guess this represents one of those ‘Why didn’t I think of that’ methods that you just
forget to try or you don’t take the time to really use it… but I did try it and I love it.
This routine does not use a Triple Bank SvenPad® but rather a combination of a
special handling, some psychology, audience management and some small
adjustments on the pad.

Preparation
Turn any two of the different pages into a force page! As you will read later we can
use an Ungimmicked SvenPad® to force a page, object or another item with an
adapted riffle force. The Devil Pad is what would happen if you combine this concept
with a ‘normal’ SvenPad®. To make this simple, you need to make two short-side-
pages on your SvenPad®. Cut off the same amount as the difference between the
long and short pages that your SvenPad® already has on the front but now you cut
on the sides. Cut one page sides short at about the 20th page and one about the
40th page. Both pages must force a normal (long) page, not a force (short) page! This
is important otherwise it will not work.

You can now force two normal pages to two people in the audience with the pad in
your hands and then give the pad to a third helper to force a page the ‘normal’ way.

To force the first two pages you hold the pad with your left hand with the open part
facing to the spectator. Hold your right hand on top of the pad with your right thumb
along the long side. You can now riffle to the short-(side)-pages twice! You just need
to time your riffle-force. Most of the time I just do it, in the beginning I asked them to
say stop whenever they want and then I riffle through the pad a little too fast and
look at my helper why they didn’t say stop. I explain that I will do it again but slower
and that they can call stop whenever they want. In reality they are now conditioned to
say stop faster and it also helps that I look at them just before I want them to say
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stop. If I they let me go past the short-page I want to force I quickly riffle through the
rest of the pages and smile and repeat it again. When you proceed to riffle a little
slower, you can easily time it to stop at the first side-short-page and do the same
with helper two and the second short-(side)-page. Nowadays I skip the too fast joke
and just time it and 99% of the time it’s bang on.

Naturally, I will riffle and let them read or look at the chosen page when I’m
looking away in another direction so everything looks fair and clean.

Creating a Devil Pad is not only about the two extra forces, but the extra layer of
deception and extra reveals that you can generate. That’s all, just two extra reveals of
pages you already have. All you need to do is cut two strokes!

Important:
The fact that you hand out the pad to the third helper and have him clearly do the
cleanest force possible will convince the rest of the audience that there is a
completely free choice for all and that you were only helping the first two to save
time. Take your time with the third real SvenPad® force, hand the pad to spectator
three and walk away, the audience will think all helpers had a completely free choice
from a 100 different words, drawings, pictures or micro items in it.

Handling tips

Tip 1 Choose a third helper that is in a position so that it’s not as easy to riffle for him
like you did with helper one and two, so it looks only natural that you hand him the
pad and have him riffle and open at a freely chosen page himself. Or act as if you now
have to do something away from spectator three. Again, this will add to the illusion
that all three helpers had the same free choice.

Tip 2 I first cut my short-(side)-pages in my Emotion SvenPad® (see page Mixed

Emotions for more info) and later in a Celebrity SvenPad®, it always worked great.

BTW Remember you can convert every normal page into a force page. Naturally the
effect will be stronger if you plan these pages well. Also you can convert every
‘normal’ SvenPad® into a Devil Pad™ but you don’t have to use the extra force(s). Just
see them as a free bonus! Two free forces for every SvenPad® you own, isn’t that
great.

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The eXtreme Pad™
The ultimate way to set-up your SvenPads®

The Dream Handling made it possible to use your SvenPads® in a very deceptive way
and completely hands-off all in the hands of the spectator. I think The Dream
Handling is perfect but only the most observant and clever audience (like magicians)
could make note that, just as with the ‘Classic handling’, the first time when pages are
shown to be all different the spectator (or the mentalist) riffles DOWNWARDS and
only a short time later when they select a page the spectator riffles UPWARDS.

So with the Classic Handling and with the Dream Handling the audience will see a
downwards riffle first and an upward riffle a little later!

Now please ask yourself how it would look if the spectator could do ALL the work
but now BOTH TIMES open the pad in the same direction.

I hear you think: “This can’t be done!?!?”

With the eXtreme Pad™ this CAN be done!

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With the eXtreme Pad™ showing all pages are different AND the force are:

A: Both completely hands-off

B: Both in the hands of the spectator (if you want)
C: Both times the spectator can riffle or open upwards!!
D: or if (you want) both times downwards

An eXtreme Pad is the ULTIMATE way to set-up your SvenPads® from now on!

Advantage:
The beauty is that even if you like to perform your SvenPad® demonstrations in the
traditional way, the ‘Classic’ way, like most mentalists did before this book came out,
you can still use the same handling where you show all pages are different, and later
have the spectator open the pad in exactly the same way during the force!!!

It’s the perfect illusion and now you can show the spectator what you want him to do
very slowly and show all pages are different exactly the same way as he or she will
have to do it later… (please read that again )

BOTH TIMES open or riffle upwards or BOTH TIMES open or riffle downwards
It’s not only a real magicians-fooler but it just looks incredibly innocent!

- It will look much more natural if the pad is handled the same way both times
- You can choose if you want to open or riffle upwards or downwards both
times.
- It’s easier to teach the spectator what to do!
- There is less chance the spectator will make a mistake.

Small disadvantage that’s not really a disadvantage (Please read):

- You will need to handle the pad shortly during the demonstration but this
action is well motivated and invisible if performed correctly. Nothing has
happened yet and there is absolutely no heat on the pad at this moment. Also
it’s just a few seconds that you ‘help’ the spectator and remember that with the
classic handling you need to handle the pad much longer! Now only a few
seconds but you get all the extra power an eXtreme Pad will give you!!!
- You need to set-up your SvenPad® in a different way but it’s not more work.

Let’s create some eXtreme Pads™

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Creating an eXtreme Pad™ is very easy. It will require you to prepare your pad in a
different way but don’t be afraid because if you know how it’s done it’s just as easy as
creating a ‘classic SvenPad®’

You could stop creating your SvenPads® the classic way because if we set-up our
SvenPads® the ‘eXtreme way’ we have everything of both worlds. We can still use our
SvenPads® like we did before with ‘the classic way’ but now (with an eXtreme Pad)
the performer and the spectator will both handle the pad exactly the same way (both
open upwards) AND if you want you can have the spectator check and show that all
pages are different too. So with your SvenPad® set-up as an eXtreme Pad™ you can
have THE BEST of both worlds!

I’m repeating the benefits of the eXtreme Pad™ because I know magicians are so
used to setting it up their SvenPads® the old way, it just takes time to realize what
this new way to set-up your pad can do for you.

How to create an eXtreme Pad™

The big difference with a normal SvenPad® is that with The eXtreme SvenPad® you
only use the short (or only the long) pages.

The first thing you need to do is write the force and the different pieces of
information; both on the short pages or both on the long pages.

You always use both sides of the short or both sides of the long pages all depending
on how you would like to handle the pad during performance (open up or down).

In the classic way we always wrote the force information at the short pages and the
different pieces of information on the long pages. If we riffled down we could show
all long (different) pages and the moment we riffled upwards we could only see the
(short) force pages.

With The eXtreme Handling and an eXtreme Pad™ we can riffle upwards and see
the different pages and later we can AGAIN riffle upwards but now see the force
pages. Again all we need to do is write the different information AND the force
information both on the short or both at the long pages.

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We can create an eXtreme SvenPad® in two ways.
A) One to always riffle upwards (Recommended and most used set-up).
B) One that always riffles downwards.

Set-Up 1: OPEN UPWARDS every time (recommended)

A. Write, draw or glue the different pieces of information on the front of all
SHORT pages.
B. Write, draw or glue the force information on the back of all SHORT pages.
C. Create a front and back cover that are both 100% identical with the exception
off a secret marking so only you can tell what side is up. Front up to show all
different pages and back up for the force pages (more on this later).

This drawing clearly shows how to set-up your pads.

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eXtreme Handling V1 - OPENING UPWARDS:

Step 1
As soon as you created your first eXtreme Pad™ you are ready to do the eXtreme
Handling. Put this pad on the table with the different pieces of information pointing
upwards (look at your secret markings here) or hand it to your helper with the
different pieces of information pointing upwards. Now you can have your helper
check that all pages are different and show the audience that all pages are different,
as long as he handles the pad like we used to select a force page with the classic
handling; Put the pad on the open left hand, put the right hand on top and so on…

As long as the spectator opens upwards and riffles through the pad this way he or
she will see only different pages now!

Step 2
Then ask the spectator to riffle in exactly the same way again but very slowly and
show to the rest of the audience that every page contains a different picture, word,
number or drawing or whatever you used.

If you position the spectator in front of the audience it will be a little difficult for her
to show the pages to all members of the audience if you keep repeating “Show it
slowly in exactly the same way…” because it’s almost impossible to turn her left hand
180 degrees holding it with the right hand on top in exactly the same way. Maybe she
can turn both hands about 90 degrees but never 180 degrees but no matter what, at
some time she will have to fumble or change position to adjust a little.

And this is EXACTLY what we want!

Step 3
This is where you step in, acting as if you just help a second!! You take the pad from
the spectator and clearly help to show that every page is different to the audience.
Even if most people already saw that all pages are different you still take the pad and
show it very clearly wile explaining that the spectator can chose any of the ‘hundred
pages’ with different pictures, materials, drawings, names or numbers, whatever you
used in that pad. If there is a camera, use it! Turn to the camera and show that all
pages are different (lol). Now just give back the pad upside down and you are ready
for the force.

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The Turn
Step 3 where you act as if you are just helping for a second is very important because
when you put pad back on the spectators open left hand, you put it bottom side up,
and that bottom will look exactly the same. Don’t make a move out of it, just show
the different pages to the audience, relax for a short moment and lower your hands
including the pad and say:

“In a moment I want … [name spectator] (at this moment you can look at the pad for
the name, if you include the eXtrementalism subtly at the end of this explanation) to
freely select ANY of these pages without showing it to me or anyone else!!!”

During this sentence you only turn your wrist on the offbeat when you make eye
contact and put the pad back on the spectators left hand. Only now with the other
‘front’ side on top. The spectators can open upwards again but now every page will
be a force page!

If you can walk a few feet or turn around to show other people, or to show the
camera you have plenty of time to turn the pad around. The more you move the
easier it is to do this invisibly. Just make sure that when you return the pad to your
helper you hand it back bottom side up (see the secret markings).

BANG!!!

You have now had the spectator show all pages are different AND force a page on
themselves being consistent with all handlings…

Just do it!
Create your own eXtreme Pads™ and you will see how much fun it is…

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Set-Up 2: OPEN DOWNWARDS every time

If you like you can also set-up your pad to open downwards ever time.

A. Write, draw or glue the different pieces of information on the front of all LONG
pages
B. Write, draw or glue the force information on the back of all LONG pages.
C. Create a front and back cover that are both 100% identical with the exception
of a secret marking so only you can tell what side is up front to show all
different pages or back to show the force pages (again more on this later).

This drawing clearly shows how to Set-Up 2 need to be done.

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eXtreme Handling V2 - RIFFLING DOWNWARDS:

The Handling and The Turn for riffling downwards is exactly the same as the riffling
upwards as we just described but now you only use The Dream Handling Starting
Position twice so that instead of riffling upwards the spectator must riffle downwards
both times.

Remark:
Even though you can now choose if you want to prepare your eXtreme Pad™ to riffle
up- or downwards I think I prefer the eXtreme Handling V1 to riffle upwards over
eXtreme Handling V2 because when you riffle upwards it’s easier to see (and show)
the complete page because you can open the page a little easier. Also this handling is
a little more natural, like opening the lid of a box.

Two Identical ‘Front’ Covers

For The eXtreme Handling you need to have two identical front covers on both sides
of your eXtreme SvenPad®. A really great subtlety to make ‘the switch’ more
deceptive is to create some fake damage on both ‘Front Covers’ of these eXtreme
SvenPads®. You could tear away some paper and tear away exactly the same piece
on the other front side. Another way I used a lot in the past with card boxes and other
items is to use Tippex to paint some parts white as if a part was torn off or damaged
and duplicate this precisely on the other cover. Also a dirty spot like a some smudge,
some writing or even a big inkblot will work perfect as long as it looks like something
that would normally not belong there so people assume it’s there by accident. Just
keep it to something you can exactly duplicate on the other front cover and it will be
a very strong convincer.

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The Markings

Marking the front and back can be very simple, any kind of marking will do as long
as it’s easy to see for you but not for the audience or the assisting spectator. Just
print a front page that goes with the content of the pad. If you are going to force a
tattoo print a front with some tattoo’s and adjust a letter, a number or a small line
that is easy to see for you but again… not for the audience.

Important Note!

I know some of you will think: “Hey, with this idea I never have to buy another
SvenPad® again because I can just use a normal pad and get the same effect as with
an eXtreme Pad™, I just write on both sides of the pages and turn the pad around,
and I have the same miracle!...”
But if you would try this at home you would be missing a VERY important point that
you will see the moment you finished your pad. ONLY with a real SvenPad® you will
always see a blanc page held above the pages they look at and that’s what really sells
the illusion! If you would use a normal pad and try to create an eXtreme SvenPad®
you will see that all the pages above the different pages are all the same and that
would completely ruin the effect.

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For the eXtrementalists only:

If you really want to make the illusion perfect, and if you are willing to take the extra
time to really make this fool-proof you could openly write the name of the spectator
on the cover before you hand it to him. It’s just a subtlety, an extra convincer or an
extra layer of deceptions as many like to call it… (I call it eXtrementalism).

What you need to do for this is first you have to learn the name of the spectator. Just
pay attention, talk to a friend or any way you can think of to get the name of a
spectator before you start the show (you could even use the Dunninger plot or and
impression device like one of the 7 or 8 different special SvenPad® impression
devices you will learn later in this book). Prepare your pad with two similar covers
(with enough space to write the name large) and use repositionable glue to attach the
cover. Write the name on the duplicate front-cover that will start at the back (bottom)
that people only see during the force. During the performance you openly ask for the
spectators name and write the name as similar as possible and maybe even write the
date under the name and continue with the effect like normal.

Now the method is undetectable, invisible, even more natural, almost impossible to
reverse engineer and most of all much fun to perform…

Tip!
With the repositionable glue you could also secretly steal the fake front on the back
during the second phase of the demonstration. This way you end with a normal
looking pad that has a front and a back like any normal pad would have and you
could casually flash both sides when you put the pad away. This way you will put the
last smart thinkers on the wrong track too.

Maybe this is too much for some but if I would perform for an important show or a
TV-show, or YouTube or any place where people could film me, I would definitely
remove the fake front-bottom and flash it, even if it was just for my inside smile...

- The eXtreme Pad™ -

the Ultimate way to set-up your pads!

Later in the book you will learn other ways to set-up you SvenPads® for other uses
like the Double Sided SvenPad®, the LØK Pad and so on…
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SNEAKY
EXTRA
STUFF

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Adding extra information is key!

Like many pro’s do with Q&A you could add some extra information on the force
pages. You could use the list of basic ideas in the first chapter or any other piece of
information, question and so on as extra layers of deception that is only written at the
force pages. The extra information is probably the most important thing you could
implement to amplify the power of your skills using SvenPads®.

Let’s say you introduce a (Sven)Pad™ filled with different Professions. You clearly
show that there is written a different profession at every page. Only at the force
pages you also write a Skill, a Bad Habit and maybe even a number, a time, a day or
whatever you like. Now if the profession you are going to force was let’s say
Salesman and you would ask people to think of a skill, the obvious answers would
probably be that he is a good speaker and if you would ask them to imagine a bad
habit for this person they would probably say that he talks too much.

Now let’s assume that below the forced profession salesman you also write some less
obvious answers like,

Skill: Good at chess, and below that

Habit: Eating too much fast food.

Now you have forced a skill and a bad habit that’s not obvious and not something
that people would automatically connect to the profession ‘salesman’. With the right
wording you could use this knowledge to apparently read or control the mind of your
audience helper and act as if he or she is just making up these thoughts and you keep
getting the impressions and keep reading there mind.

After you revealed the profession you could say to your helper:

“Now I want you to imagine a skill and a habit of this salesman!”.

She will think about he’s good at chess and the habit is eating too much fast food.
Now ask her to imagine this person and concentrate strongly on the skill first and say:

“It’s not a very common skill that you are thinking about” she will reply with, yes.

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“Please imagine yourself using this skill”, “It’s a skill that uses your brains!

Wild guess:

“Is this a skill you have too? ”

Most people will answer, no, but no matter what they say you reply with:

“Please imagine yourself being very good at it too…”

“Please concentrate on this skill that you just imagined”,

“I see you closed your eyes a little… like you were focusing on something close to
you”

Pause for a moment and say:

“Are you focusing on a puzzle… like you are good at solving a puzzle or something
similar?”

“Please don’t speak… it’s not a puzzle? Don’t speak, only answer in your mind! Does it
have anything to do with a king or no wait, is it planning an attack on a king????”

“Hmmm weird I see squares, I see a hamburger, I see black and white objects, I see a
table… Yes it’s at a table…”

And then you reveal it has to do with chess and that this imaginary salesman is good
at chess and that this must be the skill he or she was concentrating on. You can also
write it on a large board and show what you think only to the audience, just before
you ask the spectator to name the skill they are concentrating on.

Take your time and act as if you really feel and see what he or she is imagining, as
with most mentalism it’s all acting and presentation. Very slowly asking questions as if
you are walking through the imaginary thoughts with the spectator and do the same
with the habit...

“Please only answer in your mind! Is it a bat habit or a good habit, again don’t speak,
only answer in your mind!”

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“I think it’s a good habit… it makes you happy! Doesn’t it?!”

Here she will probably react, but you immediately say:

“Don’t say anything! Just keep focusing on the habit. Is it something you like?”

“Ah, it’s something you like but it’s NOT a good habit… I see the hamburger again, is
the habit eating too much food? Or uh no, I see many hamburgers. Did you think
about hamburgers again? Yes, the habit is eating too much fast food or junk food!?…”

And end the demonstration here.

This way it will look as if your audience helper just made up these extra thoughts
during the show and long after she touched the pad and because it has nothing to do
with the original profession your force logically disconnects.

Present your SvenPad® demonstrations like this to add some extra layers of
deception using extra information that is obvious.

Use this list

The extra information you can provide can be anything you want. Everything from the
basic list (page 27) like:

- Names
- Dates
- A time
- A price
- A number
- A (pin)code
- A color
- A Star Sign
- and so on…

Use your imagination and always add some extra information it will dramatically
boost your SvenPad® demonstration with an extra hit every time you perform it.

TEST IT, TRY IT, USE IT!

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SvenPad TM

WAS
BORN

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How to fill your SvenPad®
I really believe that a SvenPad® that looks like you just quickly wrote a name or a
word on every page of the pad is very strong because this will exaggerate the
impromptu and organic feeling of the pads in this way. The pads look like you just
quickly wrote some words or names on every page of a simple note pad just for a fair
selection process to help you with the demonstration.

The impromptu feeling makes these pads extra strong and if presented well the pads
are almost invisible. Some performers throw them away as soon as soon as the work
is done.

That’s the beauty of these SvenPads®, they absolutely do not look like a magic prop
in any way, just a pad you quickly wrote on to help with the demonstration. The
demonstration is important, the mind reading process is important (the illusion) not
the pad. You have to act like the pad is not important...

Unless you have a special pad, a special memory or something you created as a kid or
something you collected over the years...

Writings

Most SvenPads® are filled with writings and most writings will be names but we
know now you can write anything you want. As long as you can make it interesting
you can create a mind reading demonstration. Naturally it could also be just one
letter on every page. A SvenPad® can be the perfect starting point for Train Tracking
(for more info read Atlas Brookings Train Tracking).

You could even write a small story, write notes about any subject or even create a
personal mini diary or even a small book-test!

Again anything written can be used from a single letter to a small book.

(Greg Ace wrote a really wonderful idea about using a few SvenPads® to force a
word in Scrabble!)

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Numbers

Naturally you can force ANY number. You could use a number to force a page of a
book, a person in a row, a special price, a time, a secret code or even a bank account
or business card information and so on. In this book you will find a few great
examples of what you can do with numbers, from the most easy ACAAN or even
ACAANAAD (and any deck) to the hard hitting Pin-Code-Killer and the Universal
SvenPad® later in this book

Spectator as a Mind-Reader

You could use force numbers for a Synchronicity demonstration or a Spectator as a

Mind Reader demonstration. You could use any Psychological Number Force as the
force in a SvenPad® and use the Psychological Force on your helper. It’s a wise idea
to combine force numbers with other information on the same page. Naturally you
could use any force like the well-known triangle in a circle, drawing all kinds of
geometrical shapes and a triangle in a circle on the force page, or draw all kind of
different landscapes like a beach on the force page and use the amazing Remote
Viewing demonstration by Peter Turner (from his Penguin Live lecture). Combining
these two powerful methods could really create a strong demonstration where the
spectator with the SvenPad® is the transmitter and the other the receiver.
It is important to present it well. In this situation you should act as if you are guiding
the receiver while he is in a hypnotic trance. Ask the sender to concentrate on
whatever is forced and explain to the receiver that just concentrating is not enough.
Tell him that you want him to do some easy mathematics so his unconscious mind
will connect with the sender and the result will be proof of a psychic connection.

With a Thin Line…

You could also hand the sender a SvenPad® that forces a drawing and the receiver a
normal pad with the same drawing almost invisibly very thin lines drawn with a pencil
in a way the audience can’t see the drawing but your receiver helper can.

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Instruct this helper to concentrate on the page until he will see a drawing appear, ask
him to follow the lines of the drawing in his mind and slowly make a clear image in
his mind. A few seconds later you ask if he can see an image appear. He will confirm
and you ask him to draw over the lines that he can now see. Hand him a big marker
to draw over these lines.

Later state that the sender could select any drawing and then reveal the drawing the
‘receiver’ made with the marker as proof of a mental connection between two people.

It’s a great display when you finish holding two drawing in the air that are just drawn
by two spectators that could not see each other drawing in any way.

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Star Sign Revelation
If you know a Star Sign anagram you can use it in a really powerful way if you
combine it with a SvenPad. Create a SvenPad® filled with personal questions and on
the force page you write:

‘What’s your star sign?’

Now you have them think of the answer to the selected question and at the same
time you are two steps ahead. They think that you don’t have a clue about which
question they are thinking of an that you are going to try to find out first.

After some concentration you say: “You are thinking of an A, or an N…” and so on.

This way you already have ‘asked’ for a few letters before they even realize it. Now
when you say: “Are you thinking of your star sign?”

You already know there star sign and you can reveal it the way you like.

- Unfortunately I can’t explain an anagram here because they are not my idea but I
can recommend you to look into the works of Peter Turner and Max Maven.

Tip!
As a mentalist you should always keep your eyes and ears open. You should be
looking for information like Sherlock Homes. Sometimes the most valuable
information is presented for free. Sometimes you hear thing and sometimes
information is just out in the open. A professional mentalist will notice these things
and really use these treasures. If you are in a room or with a group of people and you
hear a name or any other piece of information that you can use later, make note of it
and use it. A name, a (pin-, phone- or house-) number, a date of birth, even a
ringtone can help you to create a special moment. These free gifts can be the most
valuable pieces in your show and they can add so much to everything you do.

So also if you hear a birthday or star sign you can use this SvenPad® to create an
even more incredible miracle…

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ACAAN
Make a Number SvenPad® and a Card
SvenPad® and you will have a real
Miracle! Just hand a SvenPad®
filled with the numbers 1 to
52 and a SvenPad® filled
with 52 Cards to
your helpers.

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TIP!

You could spread as many decks as you like face up at the table or on the floor and
show that every deck is completely mixed and that all the cards are different. Nobody
will notice that only the force card is at the same position in every deck! You will have
the first ACAANAAD - Any Card At Any Number… And Any Deck! LOL

Again you could use as many decks you want. Let the third helper pick a deck and
hand him the deck of choice and have a number and a card selected from your
special SvenPads®.

Now without touching the deck you can let the third helper count to the ‘freely’
chosen number to find the ‘freely’ chosen card in the freely chosen deck!!!

AND EASIER TO PERFORM THEN EVER!!!

You will have a killer ACAAN and with the right (P.I.-) notes you can easily change the
outcome for every performance as you will read later.. .

Lucky Lotto

Another very easy to do demonstration would be to hand four SvenPads® to four

people in a row and demonstrate that each pad has the numbers 01 to 50 (all two
digit numbers). Now have all four spectators select a number and you can reveal wat
you predicted in a big envelope that was hanging in plain view all the time, or in a
chest, or you could even buy a real Lotto ticket with the 6 force numbers that you can
use ever show. Another way to reveal is to read their minds one by one…

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Locks
There are many different locks available and you
could use a SvenPad® to force a number to unlock
a Number Lock. The effect would be best if you
use 4 SvenPads® or at least one SvenPad® for
every number in the combination. It would not be
my preferred effect but I didn’t want to keep it from
you because maybe as a part of another trick it
could be interesting to use.

You could combine a number lock with a ‘7-Key’

effect and use a lock with a number combination
and a key as on the picture on the right.

Another idea is to use a Word Lock. They are easy

to obtain and they work like a number lock only
instead of numbers they use a 5 letter word…

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Long Number Stunt
You can also use extremely long numbers. To make a long number easy to remember
you can use the last 4 numbers of your phone and do the same with a few other
phone numbers you can easily recall. Another way to remember a long number is to
calculate it. There is a very easy method to remember a long number.

If you know the first two numbers you know the rest by simple adding up the last two
numbers. Let’s say you start with 52 (Mnemonic: number of cards in a deck) and
adding up these numbers 5+2=7 so the next number is a 7. Now add the last 2
numbers again each time you have a new number: 2+7=9. The next number is a 9,
9+7=16 so the next number is a 6 (always use the last number if the answer is a two
digit number).
52 will give you:

527965167303369549325729101123583257291011235

In this example I used 45 numbers and you will be able to call out extremely long
number immediately and only remember the number 52!

This idea was inspired by the great Larry Becker and Lee Earl who utilized something
similar in their amazing book test “More of Europe for Less!” which is highly
recommended, as is everything these two super mentalists created. The method is
very old and simple but it allows you to recall long numbers without any
memorization.

If you write page numbers on your pads, you can peek the page number.

If you use page numbers, you can also use this number to do the long number stunt.
On every page, you could write a long number disguised as a serial number, or a
time, stock-numbers, and phone numbers and so on...This way you can add another
amazing memory stunt. Just add some very long numbers to your pictures or
drawings and demonstrate that you are able to call out every number very quickly,
digit by digit, even if the number is 50 digits (or more!) long. You could repeat this
with as many numbers you like and all the numbers will be different every time!

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Pin-Code Killer!
Why would you make a pad with filled with different Pin-Codes???

IMPORTANT!
Most people don’t like it when you use their real Pin-Code for a demonstration!

This is a fact that nobody can deny and it’s also the resin why a SvenPad® is the
perfect tool to use with a Pin-Code divination! IT’S JUST PERFECT!!!

Think about it... It will make perfect sense if you explain that you use a pad filled with
all different Pin-Codes to protect your spectator’s privacy!

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Naturally, you could write a Pin-Code on every page but you would only have 50 Pin-
Codes to choose from, like most magicians do with a pad with only 50 celebrities. It
would be better if you could have 10 Pin-Codes at every page so you would already
have 500 Pin-Codes to choose from… but…

What if you had a pad with

Over 5000 different Pin-Codes!!

Keep reading…

If presented well this can even play stronger than done with their real Pin-code!

This system I have developed especially for the SvenPads®

It’s VERY easy to learn and VERY easy to remember!

It will allow you to have a helper pick any code from 5000 different pin-codes!

Even though you are not looking!

You can be in another room when a Pin-Code is selected!

Can also be done with 2, 3 or 4 people at the same time!

Every code will be different!

You can repeat the demonstration without reset!

With a different Pin-Code every time!

Could be performed at the largest stage for 500 people or close up one on one!

Disclaimer
“Pin-Codes are very private information that people don’t want to share, so you wrote
down thousands of different Pin-Codes in a Note Pad people can choose one in the
fairest way possible!”

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5000 Pin-Codes that are ALL different…

Write about 50 different 4-digit Pin-Codes on every non-force page of a pad like you
would write them on the force-pages. Then you write 10 (or 40 with The Lazy Man
Amplifier) different numbers on each force page all ending with another digit from
one to zero. Also make it look like every force page is different by writing the
numbers on different positions and in different hand writing. This is just a small
subtlety to create a safety net if your spectator ever sees a second force page it’s not
a problem. If you use the numbers below you will only need to do a little work to find
out the last digit. Always start by asking your spectator to concentrate on the FIRST
digit and look them in their eyes. Then have them concentrate on the second digit,
the third and then the last digit. With the last digit you act as if you ‘feel’ something…

Odd or Even: Take your time, concentrate and keep acting, again you concentrate
too and just ask “It’s not an even number, is it?!” No matter what they answer this
statement always fits and now you know if the last number is odd or even depending
on the answer you got.

5 or 6: Now ask them to concentrate if the last digit is high or low. Look closely at
their reaction. If they don’t react strongly or if they have some doubts, they will
probably not have a high or a low number so I would go for 5 or 6 (depending on if it
was odd or even).

High or Low: Let’s assume the number was odd and they did react fast and you saw
no doubts it will probably be either 3 or 5 if it’s a low number or 7 or 9 if it was a high
number.

Now I use the ‘Eamon Pump Method’ and just say: “If it’s high concentrate on a large
black number on a white background...” [pause a few seconds to see if they react!!!]
“and if it’s a low digit concentrate on a white number on a black background!”
Depending on the last reaction you will almost certainly know if it was high or low. I
have used the ‘Easy Pumping Method’ in many ways with great success. It’s very
easy and you can use it in many ways. Up till now for you helper and your audience
you just started to concentrate but in reality you almost know the number. Let’s
assume the outcome was high, so it must be 7 or 9. Now you almost have the
complete Pin-Code. You just have to find out if it was the first or the second number.
You could just do some fishing to find out if it’s the first or the second number. “I
think it’s 7... (again pause for a mini second and look for a reaction!) If they do not

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react you continue with: ”an 8 or a 9, but I get the strongest feeling with the number
9” and bang you are 3 ahead!

Naturally you could just ask for the last number but this way it’s almost invisible…

Constructing the numbers

Every Pin Code on our force-page is a 4-digit number. The last number of every force-
number is our key-number. With the key-number we can calculate all other numbers
by simple adding 4, 5 and 6 (mnemonic start number 4: a 4 digit pin-code). If the last
number is 1 add 4 to calculate the first number, then add 5 for the second number
and add 6 for the third number. If you get a 2-digit number, just take away the first.

Basic numbers or Blue list: 5061 6172 7283 8394 9405 0516 1627 2738 3849 4950
(you should mix up these numbers so your spectator won’t see any similarities)

The Lazy Man Amplifier!

We will now add 30 extra Pin-Codes without any memory work! You could write 10
numbers on your force page with a Black marker and 10 Blue, 10 Red and 10 Orange.
This way you could write forty Pin-Codes on your force page! You just have to find
out if it was written in Black, Blue, Red or Orange by making an easy statements like:
“The number you picked was not a dark color, was it” (Black and Blue are dark and
Orange and Red are not). If you know light or dark, use the ‘Easy Pumping’ and say I
think it’s red, check for a reaction or continue with “… or Orange… yes I think it’s
Orange!” Look at the reaction and it should be easy to find out what color the
number is and continue from there. But like with the last number you could just ask…
and if you perform for 2 or more people you could whisper “you take a red and you
take a black to avoid picking the same number… that would be too easy for me!” .

In the easy example above we find out the last digit and secretly add 4, 5 and 6 for
the first, second and third number. Now this is what we do for Blue (4 letters!) and for
Red (3 letters!) we add 3, 4 and 5 and for Black (5 letters!) add 5, 6 and 7 and you for
Orange (6 letters!) add 6, 7 and 8 to calculate the first, second and third number.
There is NO memory work, the number of letters in each color will tell you how much
you should add to calculate the first number and so on.

Red list: 4831 5942 6053 7164 8275 9386 0497 1508 2619 3720
Black list: 6291 7302 8413 9524 0635 1746 2857 3968 4079 5180
Orange list: 7421 8532 9643 0754 1865 2976 3087 4198 5209 6310

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Now you have 25 force pages with each 40 Pin-Codes to choose from but you can
easily write 50 Pin-Codes at every non-force page. This way it will look like you have
about 50 Pin-Codes at every page!

You could even write on the front and the back to make it look more spectacular and
you can show that you have over 5000 Pin-Codes that are all different…

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Pin-Code Killer really kills!

Do not underestimate the power of this demonstration!

- It will be just as strong as reading a real Pin-Code from someone’s mind.

- You have the best excuse you can to have the Pin-Codes written on a pad.
- IT’S PRIVATE INFORMATION!!!

Convincer
As a convincers you could have a few people write down some random Pin-Codes
from your pads to prove all Pin-Codes really are different!

You want 5000?

Yes, you can! I found out that 50 Pin-Codes on one page is the about the maximum
so they are still easy to read. But you could duplicate all the force numbers on the
page above the force page as in the example below (just write all numbers on
different positions, your helper will not have time to analyze or compare these
numbers and he will be the only one that will ever see the force numbers):

Example Force-Page with 40 and a Non-Force-Page with 50 Pin-Codes at all pages:

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It will take some time to write all the numbers but with 4 markers and the list of
numbers that I have provided above here you will be able to create a pad reasonably
fast but you will have a miracle for many years to come…

2 to 4 people is more amazing and much

easier to perform!

For me Pin-Code-Killer proved to be a real Killer effect especially when I performed it

with 2 or 3 people at the same time! If you perform it for 2 or 3 people at the same
time it will look even more amazing but in fact it’s a lot easier because you can ask
one person to select a RED PIN-CODE, another to pick a BLUE PIN-CODE and the last
person to pick a BLACK PIN-CODE to be 100% sure they all select a different
number…

TIP! Always use the color in this order: Red, Blue, Black, Orange. This way you can
easily remember who picked what color!

Another important tip I would like to provide is that if you perform for more than one
person I would not work my way through the system starting from the last number
(as in my example calculations) with all helpers. It would be more natural when you
pick up thoughts from different numbers with different helpers. Fortunately it’s easy
to start with any of the other 4 numbers and still work out the complete Pin-Code!
E.g. you just found out the first digit (instead of the last) of you second helper. And
you know the number of helper two was a BLUE number. The rule for blue is, (4
letters) so last number +4+ first number, +5+ second number and +6=Third number.
Now you just have to convert that to the number you want to start with. If it’s the first
number and the first number is 3 we add 5 for the second, than 6 for the third and
subtract 4 for the last number.

It’s the same process for every number, when you know the color you know how
many digits you need to add from the last number. Black is plus 4, 5 and 6 for first,
second and third number. Let’s say you found out the third number, subtract 6 to get
the second number, subtract 5 to get the first number and subtract 4 for the last
number.

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It may read difficult on paper but in reality it’s really easy. Just take your time, and you
are a mind reader so you must concentrate on the spectators thought. So don’t worry,
you have all the time to calculate and double check your calculations.

It will only look more real when you are really concentrating during the performance!

I really hope you take the time to create a Pin-Code SvenPad®, I did and I love it!

Inspired by the works of Michael Murray and Peter Turner that both have some of
the strongest Pin-Code revelations out there, I wanted to create something that
doesn’t need your helpers to reveal their real Pin-Code but at the same time it must
look like they have an unrestricted free choice to pick any Pin-Code and I wanted it to
be easy to perform, no memory work and possible with multiple spectators at the
same time.

Pin-Code-Killer is the result.

Have fun!

You could create hundreds of SvenPads®

with some
Writing or Drawing

But there are other eXtreme’

ways to fill your pads!

Okay, here we go. . .

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SvenPads® Without Limits…
Stop using only Writings or Drawings and take it to the eXtreme…

Drawings
Naturally you could also fill your pads with doodles and drawings. Like I wrote above
in the first chapter, you could just draw a hand on every page but in another position
on every page. You could draw a different car at every page but you could also draw
something completely different on every page of your pad, a stickman,

a house, a cat, a car, a fish, a boot, a flower, a door, a hand, a sun, a moon, a smiley, a
sign, a symbol and so on. Again limited only by your imagination (and drawing
skills ) but there are other ways to fill your SvenPads®…

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Something new I experimented with
was using pictures in a SvenPad®.
I tried it a few years
back but the pads
I used where to
small and the
paper too thin
but now it
works!

I have printed some pictures

on my computer printer and glued them in
a SvenPad® and it works perfect. With this idea you are now able to make some
very special and eXtreme SvenPads® as you will read very soon...

And with repositionable glue you can change all pages really fast!!!

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I was pleasantly surprised to see how thin the pads where even after I glued a printed
picture on every page of a normal SvenPad®. The result was amazing and really
looking good…

And the best thing was that the pads

still worked great, just like before and
without any mistakes. A perfect way
to create some very special pads like
you will read later in the book, but that
was not all. This idea opened up a way
to many other ways to fill your SvenPad®

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Markings and Liquid
We can write or draw with a pen but also with markers or crayons and even use
different colors. In fact we can use as many colors as we want...

But this would not be the SvenPad® eXtreme e-book if we would not go beyond
that. We can use anything that leaves a mark on a page, old rubber/ink stamps, we
can make symbols with charcoal, or just a stripe from a car tire, or from a shoe sole,
lip-stick and so on.

More examples will follow in the eXtreme effects later.

Also we can use liquids to mark a page in many ways, a few drops of water, coffee,
tea or Cola and if you like it more bizarre we can use tears or even blood! As you will
read very soon there are many things that we can use to make a great and very
special SvenPad®!

Other strange, weird and bizarre stuff!!!

With this category you will be able to create the most amazing SvenPads® ever!
We can use small items we all have laying around in your house or even from another
planet. I just want to keep these ideas a secret until later but I will give a small hint
before we move on to the next chapter:

Angel dust... or even fairy hair!

IMPORTANT TIP!
Always use real Photo Paper!
If you print on real Photo Paper you will get amazing results!
Your prints will be much clearer and easier to read too.

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The Split Pad
You can force about anything you want with one of these devilish SvenPads®, but if
you want you can use one pad to force two things. I have experimented with this and
it really works! Force two things and always know who got what...

Method:
The only thing you need to do is prepare the pad in two sections. Prepare the top half
for the first force item, and the bottom half for the second force item. That’s all the
preparation you need to do and some adapted handlings. During the demonstration
you show that all pages are different just as in the original handling... very openly and
clear. Now you hand them the pads and explain they can pick any item without you
watching... explain that they have a totally free choice, that they are the only one that
can see it (explain the handling with the thumb from above, no riffling but just open it
and so on). But now just before they pick any item you take a card (a normal playing
card, or a business card, a piece of paper or anything you could use to split the pad in
the middle) and put it in the middle when you say to your helpers:

“I don’t want you both to accidently take the same word (or whatever your force is),
so let’s put a card in in the middle and you select any page from the top and you
select one from the bottom or under the card”... “Remember it but don’t show anyone
and don’t show it to each other!”

In short, you just casually say “let’s put a card in the middle” and act as if you are
improvising...

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 You have now forced two different
force pages for two people that you can reveal in
any way you want without any fishing and without asking any
questions. Super strong! I have tried this and believe me it works flawless.

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SvenPads® On Hoy!
Another great idea is to create a SvenPad® with three different force items. Using the
Hoy principle you can use any three force items you want and have three people
select an item. If you don’t know the original method I really recommend you to have
a look at David Hoy’s Tossed Out Deck a great mental card effect that became a
classic over the years. There are many variations and one of my favorite versions is
Wayne Dobson’s Tossed Out Deck. He makes it look like you know who took what
card and best of all he takes care you get the most applause cues for your
performance.

As in most versions at the end, you name your three force items and ask your helpers
to sit down if they heard their item. SvenPads® are perfect for this and I would highly
recommend to create at least one SvenPad® on Hoy for you larger shows*.

One SvenPad®... and reveal not only one, not two but three celebrities! Or three
words, objects or even 3 drawings*... Three revelations on Hoy.

*I love the Hoy principle but there is a little downside to the effect. You don’t want
your helpers to discuss the effect afterwards because there might be a chance that
two or maybe even all three helpers choose the same item. It still does not ruin the
effect completely but they will ask themselves whey you named the other item(s) or
name(s). That’s why I prefer to use the SvenPad® on Hoy with a larger audience so
you can select people from different parts of the audience. If you really don’t want to
take a chance they chat afterwards go for the Split Pad and just force two items. My
opinion is that I would definitely use the SvenPad® on Hoy idea, it’s a great mind
reading experience. Easy to follow and three hits in a row... Highly recommended!

*If you have three stands with cardboard, sketch-books or other white paper to draw
on. Draw something that looks like your three force drawings and turn around these
drawings all at the same time and immediately you ask that if they see their drawing
or if you were really close to sit down.

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An important tip:
Create Multiple Different Force Pages!!!

Having more than one force page would immensely improve your SvenPads®. It
would reduce the change that the spectator helper will see a duplicate force page and
with the right instructions and some good audience management you could even ask
them if they are happy with the chosen page or if they want to let go of one more
page and take what’s on the second page and use the Easy Pumping Safety-Net!

Use the Easy Pumping Safety-Net

Instead of using a Split Pad or a SvenPad® on Hoy you could create a pad with two
or more different force pages and do some extremely Easy Pumping to know what
the chosen force page was. For this it´s best to use SvenPads® mixed with words,
text, drawings and doodles on a page like in Linda Loopers Diary! that I will explain
later.

You could create let’s say a pad with three different force pages:
1. Text only no drawing
2. Text with a drawing but no color
3. Text with a drawing and a color

A simple statement should get you all the information you need to know and which
force page they just looked at.

You simply ask:

“If there is a drawing on that page please concentrate on that drawing...”

A. They DO NOT react (or look a little confused) immediately continue with:
“or on the text that you just read!”
B. They DO react (and start concentrating on the drawing), you know they were
looking at a drawing

To find out if they were looking at the drawing with or without a color, you could just
ask them to concentrate on the color in their picture and too see all colors bright and
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vivid in their mind. If you want to be more ambiguous you could act as if you are
strongly concentrating, close your eyes and make another statement like:

“I don’t see any color!” ...

They will react, and if they don’t just ask if this is correct.

I think that it’s best to fill all your SvenPads® with more than one force page.

It’s a great safety net because it happened to me that a helper just riffled one more
page the moment she was looking at her selection and she saw the same force page
twice. If you use the Safety Handling described later in the book the chance of this
happening is extremely small but another benefit is that you could ask if they are
happy with the chosen word or drawing (or whatever you force) and you can now ask
if they want to change their mind!

This is a great subtlety and convincer that everything is fair in the most honest way
possible and if you perform it this way you will even floor other SvenPad® users that
don’t have this book or YouTubers that know the Svengali principle but not how to
use it like a pro.

If they do want to change their mind just tell them that they can let one page go and
if they want to keep the chosen word, drawing or number just continue with their first
choice but only by giving them the chance to change is a great convincer that every
page is different and everything is really 100% fair!

Again you need to handle your spectators carefully and give precise instructions but
an eXtrementalist loves just that and I always use this method and I never had a
problem. I must admit that it did happen that a spectator let go of more than one
page even though I gave very precise instructions but they probably didn’t see the
same page twice or just didn’t notice, I don’t know but with only 3 different force
pages there is already a 66.6666 % chance they select another force page if they just
randomly riffle some more pages. When you use more than 3 different force pages
the percentage gets larger but I normally use 3 because I want to keep things easy
and it works perfect! If they want to change, just say;

“Ok, then take the next page…”

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Post-It notes
You can put a Post-It note with a Word, a Name, a Number or a Drawing on every
page of your SvenPad®. This set-up will have a few very important advantages.

You can have your helper take out the Post-It note at the chosen page and let
him or her put it away!

At the end you can even let him or her keep the Post-It note!

But the most important future of using Post-It notes is that you can easily
change the Force Word or Drawing, and it works absolutely fabulous!

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COLORS
Use colored Post-It Notes for a color divination effect!

Or use COLORS combined with writings, drawings or numbers...

and all this with an easy to change force!

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eXtremely
creative
SvenPads TM

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eXtremely Creative SvenPads®

Stains
You could use stains from just about anything...
You can create many weird and bizarre stains from everything that smutches or leaves
marks like the rubber of a shoe and tell a little story that is came from the shoe of a
burglar or strange visitor. Use your imagination and start planning your own special
SvenPad® now!

Hair
Angel Hair or some Hair from your first love...
Or a piece of hair from a death person you have known

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Sand
Say you saved some sand from your favorite beach or best holiday ever, you could
even make a complete SvenPad® filled with different sand on every page each with
more special memory...
The ground where you were standing when you got your first kiss
Or the ground where you won your first real price playing a match or tournament, there could
even be a piece of grass with a story.
Dust or maybe even Angel Dust
Or ashes from the death

Growing
Flowers (from the church)
Piece of a three (from Disneyland)
Some Grass (from the Netherlands)

Liquids
Drinks: Coffee, Thee, Milk, some drops you spoiled from your first glass of Orange.
Remember that anything that happened to that note pad could trigger you to start
collecting these items. Like the first drops of orange on the top page, it was the best
thing you ever tasted and you never wanted to lose that moment, so you kept that
note pad and later you started to put in other special items.

Teardrops imagine how many stories you could easily create here.
Blood! A smutch of blood from something that happened to you (falling from a three,
a car accident, your first school fight, how you cut yourself playing with a razor blade,
walking through a window and so on.

Food from a special day in your life!

Food from a special day in your life.
Something to remember from the day you got married, the day you had your 21th
birthday. The day you graduated and so on…
A black stripe of the coal left from a fire at your home

Lipstick
Some lipstick from your first kiss, from an old girlfriend, or maybe a teacher or even
your grandmother. Use your imagination.

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Example:
Naturally you can tell a story about how you felt after your first kiss and that when
you got home and looked in the mirror you still had some red lipstick on your lips
and smeared it on the first empty page of your note pad. You looked at that page for
hours, feeling so happy and you promised yourself that you would keep that note
pad for the rest of your life. Make up more extra details like how old you was at that
time, the girls name, how she looked, how she smelled, where it all happened and so
on. The first kiss is a great example but it could also be from when you were in love
with your teacher and how you looked at her when she put on that beautiful red
lipstick, and one day when she wasn’t looking you took that lipstick and put some of
it on your note pad and some of her eau de cologne on the next page...

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You can use every other flat item...
You can use the weirdest things:

And really create some

eXtreme
SvenPads!

Post Stamps
Feathers of a bird
Leaves of a flower
A piece of skin
A footprint (from a famous persons shoe)
Paint from a door
Rubber from a tire
Oil from a car

And if you really want to go eXtreme:

A piece of a sweat spot on a shirt that you were wearing during a special moment.
A piece of a handkerchief used by a celebrity or someone special when you were a kid
A piece of cigarette used by a celebrity, from your uncle, teacher and so on.

Just use your imagination and you will find so many things to make a really great
story for a SvenPad® filled with memories.
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Make up stories!

From the examples above - a leaf from a tree on your favorite vacation or a flower
from Disneyland. Just use your imagination.

Naturally memories are always great but you can use whatever you want.

Even a piece of foil from a space ship, a micro piece of tooth from a dinosaur
AND ANYTHING YOU CAN FIT BETWEEN TWO PAGES!!!

The Mini Museum!!!

I found a real mini museum with Google here: www.minimuseum.com
You will see a piece of an Asteroid Belt from 4.5000.000.000 years old, a Zagami, a
piece of Dinosaur Skin, Mammoth Meat or a little piece from Star Wars IV. In Mini
Museum 1 they even had a piece of gold foil from the Apollo spaceship en a small
piece from the real Titanic! It doesn’t matter what you pick, it’s about the story you
tell, how you collected these thing when you was a kid and later. If you tell them as if
it is real everybody will believe so.

You will find many more ideas if you Google for Mini Museum pictures. It’s a great
source but naturally there are hundreds of sites with thousands ideas to find on the
internet with microscopic small items you can use in your Personal Mini Museum
SvenPad®. Please visit the website above to see what I mean, it’s great.

Naturally you don’t need to have the real thing. We are all professional liars anyway
so what I find in the garden can also be something from the moon...

Create an amazing story telling pad

Most important is creating an amazing story telling pad! The story you build with this
pad is a great way to introduce yourself and good stories always help to connect.
Your presentation is the real power the demonstration. The more personal you make
it the better it will be, and you can go dramatic, emotional, sweet or weird and
bizarre!

Adding a story will be the most powerful thing you can do with the SvenPads® as
long as your stories are interesting, personal, weird and amazing.
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Having a conversation starter like this is very powerful and
now very easy to make!

Example
Opening with: ”Do you like Coca Cola? Well I do! Do you believe I still have some of
the first Cola I ever tasted?”

Now take out your Devilish SvenPad® and continue with:

“I would like to show you one of the most important books of my life. It isn’t even a
book; it’s an old note pad that belonged to my dad. When I was six years old, it was
brand new and lying at the table when I tasted my first glass of real Coca Cola. It was
the day before I turned seven and my parents were planning my birthday. That day it
was very hot outside and I never had anything to drink with bubbles before. I had
been running a lot and I was dying to drink some cold lemonade. I walked into the
kitchen and my mam gave me my first glass of ice cold Coca Cola. I took a nip and
another and more and before I knew it I drunk the full glass... [Big smile here] When I
put down the glass after the most satisfying drink in my life, I spoiled at that last bit
that was left in the glass over my dad’s new note pad that he used for work. Now he
could not use it anymore but he wasn’t angry. No he told me, ”Son, you keep it but
promise me you will only fill it with things that are special!” Well as you can see the
stains are still here, and I can honestly say that what you see here are the stains left
from that first Coca Cola I had when I was six years old! Isn’t that amazing?”

“For my 7th birthday my parents completely redecorated my bedroom from a little

boy’s room to a big kid’s room with new wallpaper and a desk to do my homework at
because I also went to a new school. Before I had little toy cars on my wallpaper and
now I got a red and white wallpaper. Haha many more grownup but I really loved my
old wallpaper with the little toy cars and baby blue background, so I tore a small
piece of that wallpaper and glued it here on the first page of the note pad. For me;
THAT WAS SPECIAL!”

“And that’s how I started collecting things that may not be to any value to others but
things that where SPECIAL and very important to ME!” “Here you can see some blood
from when I got a ball to my head and had a tooth go through my lip, Wow, that bled
a lot. In this little book I collected...”

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A Pad filled with Memories...
Here you can name the other items you have in your little book, you can even
name some things that are not in the book but with all the weird and strange
examples I gave you before you can tell about the most amazing things and quickly
show a few of them if you wish.

I really think your own Personal Mini Museum or Memory Collection can be one of
the best SvenPads® you will ever create. I know many people hate to be creative and
they only perform something if everything is done for them, but we don’t want a
thousand people with the same SvenPad®.

Just do it!

Just start creating some amazing SvenPads®...

WITH SOME AMAZING STORIES… AND FORCE ANYTHING YOU WISH!!!

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Mixed Emotions
Mixed Emotions really is one of my favorite effects using SvenPads®. One of the first
SvenPads® I ever created where Emotion Pads. What started as a pad filled with
written emotions evolved over the years to something really great...

To create the Emotion SvenPads® I was inspired by the many emotion charts and lists
you can find on the Internet like this emotion list:

Most of the emotions I used for the random emotions in this effect can be found on
the list above. For the force I used Jealous. To start the effect you show very clearly
that on every page you wrote a different emotion and explain that all these emotions
are completely different in every way (that’s why it is best to select emotions that are
really all different!) and that there are over 50 emotions they can choose from! Now
you put the pad in your helper’s hand and ask them to select any emotion they want

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without showing it to anyone and then put the pad out of sight immediately after
looking at the chosen emotion.

Now you ask your helper to keep the best poker face they can. They are not allowed
to give away any signs, if they have to they can bite their tongue or cheek but you
don’t want to see any emotions, as this could ruin the effect. Most of the time I select
a young lady and they usually start laughing when I tell them what they need to do.
Just milk every laugh you get but also tell her how important it is to keep a poker
face. Many times they will get the giggles, which you can play around with and have
some fun saying things like “Hey it’s important” or “You really have a wonderful smile
but I’m afraid this will ruin my chances of reading you mind”, and so on...

Now you are going to stand in front of you helper, look her straight in the eyes and
call out different emotions. I always start with: “Disgusted... Worried”. This always gets
a laugh and again I take a little break, looking afraid. I continue with, “Overwhelmed...
Bitter... Shocked”, and chances are good that the lady will keep laughing now and
then, but you keep a serious face and ask her not to give away anything! If you have
to, beg her Now keep on naming all different emotions from your list. In this
demonstration it’s very important to name many different ones to emphasize how
many emotions there are on your list/pad that they could choose from.. This will show
how difficult it is for the people watching. If you want you can call out emotions
directly from your pad… so no memory work.

The real power of the demonstration!

After naming a lot of emotions pretend to struggle and ask the lady if she can think
of a moment in her life that she really felt that particular emotion. Because you forced
the emotion ‘Jealous’ we can now weave a little story around it and could even
combine this with a small reading.

“Oh yes, I think I’m starting to feel something here and it’s not really a happy feeling,
but it’s NOT an emotion you have very often. Is it correct that some time ago you
were hurt when you felt this emotion? By a loved one?” Now start smiling a little and
look as if you see more of the picture and say: “I don’t want to give too many details
as this is a very private moment... but it’s something from the past?! Something you
have outgrown, I think...Yes, it’s ehhhmmm... ah, I thought the emotion was Anger
you were thinking of but it wasn’t... No please don’t say anything yet... The emotion I
felt was not Anger but... [pause] it was Jealousy! Is that correct?“ Naturally she will
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answer, “Yes”, and you can provide some more information about the memory by
pumping: “I felt it had nothing to do with material things or wealth, but it had to do
with love...correct?

Just improvise a little, it’s easy to find out if she was the one who was jealous or if it
was her boyfriend. You can do a bold statement that you can easily change when you
see you are not correct. “You have been jealous!”

And if the lady responds and confirms this, you continue with; “Yes but he made it a
big mess, didn’t he?!”

If she shows a big response and does not confirm for you, immediately add, “but not
like this guy, he was really jealous at all the time...”

* Don’t say, “I see something” but say, “I feel something!”

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Emoticons
I really had a lot of fun with the Emotion Pad and much later got some other ideas. I
eventually created a new pad with ‘Emoticons’ that most people immediately
recognized from Facebook and other social media.

Example

It was just a little change but instead of written words only, that were sometimes
difficult to read from a distance, I now used Smileys that everyone can easily
recognize.

REMEMBER: The strength of a SvenPad® relies on how well you show that every
page has something completely different on it and the emoticons now show this
much more clearly, even to a large audience!
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To create the icons I just started drawing a circle at every page of the pad and filled it
with yellow . Later I drew in the eyes and mouth and then wrote the emotion, but the
markers were bleeding through the paper so I experimented with yellow sticker paper
and cut circles from a large yellow paper sheet. I soon discovered it was much easier
and better looking. Finally I started printing my Smileys, cut out these large Smileys
and glued them (with repositionable glue) in my pads.

At the same time a great idea was born...

I was not only using words but also very recognizable icons. The icons made my pads
very clear and easy to see from a large distance! They also started me thinking about
all the possibilities. Not only could I use printed smileys and change them fast with
repositionable glue, but I could print anything I wanted! I could now use Pictures,
People, Faces, computer manipulated drawings and anything flat that I could think of
and with these Icons the idea for using pictures and flat objects was born...

Many years later it was THIS IDEA that led into writing this book!
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It
Visual
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Fortune Telling SvenPads®
A Fortune Telling SvenPad® can be a lot of fun. Imagine introducing a ‘simple’ note
pad with 50 drawings of meaningful signs and symbols. Or a pad filled with drawings
of tarot cards. You can duplicate your favorite set or use pictures you printed with
your computer. (Always use real Photo Paper! If you print on real Photo Paper you will
get amazing results. Your prints will be much clearer and easier to read too.

To make a great set I would recommend to create 4 Fortune Telling SvenPads®

one that will force Love, one for Carrier, one for Health and one for Money.

You can’t use real tarot cards but you can use thin home printed paper.
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Murder Mystery
One of the most amusing demonstrations you can do with a SvenPad® is to create a
Murder Mystery and solve the mystery by Mind Reading!

With 3 (or more) pads and the same amount of helpers you can create a very strong
demonstration. Create a SvenPad® for Weapons, Locations, Victims and or a
murderer...

TIP! Create extra information like:

TIME, DATES, NAMES, NUMBERS…

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The Psychological Inkblot Test
WARNING! - THIS COULD BE DANGEROUS! - WARNING!

Imagine how this must look for your audience… You show an original Psychological
Inkblot Test Pad, a Psychological Inkblot Test Pad filled with inkblots used in
psychological tests. Most people will know these exist but they have never seen the
real thing!

You explain that the inkblot test was invented by the Swiss psychologist Hermann
Rorschach, who was born 129 years ago, today. He developed the famous
‘Rorschach Test’ to secretly figure out if his subjects were schizophrenic or not.

The ‘Rorschach Test’ has since evolved into a personality evaluation, the idea being
that someone’s reaction to the blot helps reveal their personality type and many
psychologists continue to use this method. Invite someone to help you with an
experiment.
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Explain that the helper does not have to worry and that you are not going to use this
method to evaluate if he or she is schizophrenic or not. If you think it’s suitable for
the occasion you could now insert the funny line: “I don’t need a test to know that!”
Tell her (let’s assume it’s a female) that you are not even using the Rorschach’s Inkblot
Test but that later many more inkblot tests were developed by psychologists,
researchers and doctors all over the world! Explain that you studied most of these
tests over the years and that you found one that was very special. These inkblots were
created by the Dutch researcher and writer Dr. Eamon (from the Magic Café)!

Explain that you discovered that the Psychological Inkblot Test was special because
it really does yield a different result for every person again and again and that a
million things can be seen in just ONE ‘simple’ Eamon-Inkblot. Very openly show all
the different Inkblots in your test pad while you talk…

Thousands and thousands of thoughts

in one inkblot and you have here now
the complete Psychological Inkblot
Test Pad that contains 50
inkblots. Enough for
50 million thoughts!

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The Dr. Eamon Psychological Inkblot Test is the perfect starting point for an
imaginary trip that only takes place in someone’s mind. They can bring you to places
the mind has never been before or bring back memories you completely forgot.
Where one person will see an ocean full of dolphins another person sees a sky filled
with angels, a football field or just a plate of rice with beans. You tell them that “If you
relax and study any of the 50 different Dr. Eamon Inkblots your subconscious will
immediately start making connections with your soul and create a picture or a
memory that is unique to you. The outcome can be something living or something
dead, an object, a Picasso, something from outer space or even something that
doesn’t exist.”

Exaggerate about the power of these Dr. Eamon Psychological Inkblot Test and
then ask your helper if she is willing do a little experiment.

Point out the following:

- That it’s absolutely not dangerous (if she does exactly what you want)
- That she will not suffer any harm after the show (if she doesn’t make any
mistakes)
- And that she doesn’t have to worry (if she likes to take risks in life…)

Clearly show your audience and your helper that there is a different inkblot on every
page of the pad and that each inkblot can evoke a million thoughts.

Hand the pad to your helper in force position:

And have her select

´ANY´ of the ‘OVER 50’ inkblots!
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Naturally a very special inkblot will be forced. (But it’s not about the elephant…)

The force inkblots are specially designed to be inkblots that look like an elephant.
I have spent many hours creating them and testing the results! I created 5 versions I
have been experimenting with many more. I wanted them to be as vague as possible
yet still force an elephant for at least 99% of the time. I have tested the 5 variations
and I have always had the best results with elephant 2, but if you like you can use any
of the other variations. This is the number 2 that I use all the time:

No. 2

No. 3

Remember that only your helper will see the force inkblot!
Force 2 is a little vague but still a nice inkblot that really
looks like an elephant, number 1 was too obvious and
number 3 is also very clear as you can see here. But I
have been testing them a lot and a few people said
they saw an old lady in a chair so I use number 2.

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Number 4 and 5 are even more vague, but I will include them with the set anyway in
case you want to use a more vague inkblot and take a little more risk.

No. 4 No. 5

And number 1 is almost the same as number 2 but number 1 was too obvious after
many testing it was number 2 that was the absolute the best.

Especially for all book owners we created a complete download-set that you can
order for a special price to make you own perfect Inkblot Test Pads!

No. 1

(Maybe Brett will produce a Limited Edition if there is enough interest!)

More info at the end of this effect but please keep reading!

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Now back to the magic:

The real power of this effect…

is that we are going to force a MEMORY!!!

With the right story and these interesting and amazing Dr. Eamon Inkblot Test Pads
you are now able to force MEMORIES people get from this inkblot, not just an
elephant! Explain that memories tell a lot about a person but Dr. Eamon Inkblot Test
Pads are also perfect for some incredible psychological experiments and some real
mindreading stunts!

As soon as your helper picks an inkblot you ask her to use her imagination and try to
create a picture from the inkblot without saying a word! Ask her to concentrate on
the object or the thing that she just created in her mind from one of the inkblots.

We know the helper is now concentrating on an elephant, but we are NOT simply
going to reveal the word elephant! Nothing eXtreme about that…

No, we are going to create a memory!

To add another layer of deception you now ask your helper if she can make the thing
or object she created bright and vivid. Then ask her if it is something she has seen for
real in her life and if she can remember a moment when she saw the thing she is now
concentrating on. Immediately you ask (as if this is a statement):

“Did you see this ‘thing’ when you were young?”

Now treat her as if she is hypnotized and tell her to imagine herself being in the same
place again, as if you let her travel back in time.

In her mind she will now travel to or A) a Circus or B) a Zoo!

This is a dream situation for every mentalist because you are now ready to do a long
series of unbelievable reveals in a row. You are now in a great position and with some
Easy Pumping you will be able to achieve over 10 reveals!!! Yes, you will do a series of
reveals with a lot of information that you could never do before, as if you are in her
mind!!! This will be as close to real mindreading a mentalist will ever be…

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Over 10 Reveals!?!
1. You will reveal that your helper was a kid when the memory happened.
You could just guess about 8 years old and correct your statement if needed
to fit your helper’s reaction and create the illusion as if you can see her at that
moment in time. I even describe how she looked and how she was dressed. I
start vague and make it fit her reaction while talking.

2. There was music… yes you hear music in the background (let her confirm)

3. She was surrounded by people (she was NOT alone!)

4. And close to her you see family (don’t be afraid to guess, brother, sister,
parent). If you are wrong adjust it to other children that are close to her.

5. It is a happy place and she also felt very happy at that moment in time! You
see her smile… And she has CANDY!!! Or she just had candy...

Now please don’t make the mistake and go too fast, you are still a thousand miles
ahead and you have already scored a home run with only the first 5 plus statements.
Play your part well and lead your helper into a deeper trance by asking her to
concentrate and really see, feel and believe that moment in time. See the picture and
feel the emotions. Really take your time here and slowly continue…

6. Tell her you get the feeling that the thing or object she created in her mind
is not an object… but it’s alive! You are concentrating very deep now and
tell her that it’s not a dog or a cat… no… no it’s a little bigger and you see
more than one…

7. Now you hear the music again…

8. Now you ask an important question: “In this place, did you see people in the
air there too???” and act confused.

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The Circus or Zoo moment!

She will probably be at a circus but there is a chance that she is at a zoo. The nice
thing is that you can make all previous statements fit to both and that only in the
circus will be people in the air. With your statement you could add some more vague
statements like “You are inside but not in a building… I don’t know what it is but
you like it… you still like it.” If it’s the zoo she will be outside, so yes will confirm
she is in the circus. I have done this demonstration many times and about 85%
people are in the circus, 14% in the Zoo and only 1 time I had someone that
concentrated on a moment she was watching TV where she saw the elephant… (but
the elephant was in a circus).

Now we could make some more small statements about the memory but the moment
you have enough confirmation to know if she is thinking of a circus or a zoo you are
ready to end the experiment with a multiple kicker ending! For this example we
assume she is in the circus:

Bonus: The Music

If you want you can also reveal the exact music the spectator heard at that moment in
time! What??? Yes, you can!

But don’t do this in the beginning when you say your second statement, “You hear
music!”. No, wait until you are at the point of revealing that she is in a circus at the
very last moment. Just before you say “circus” you say,

“Again I can hear the music… could you please try to really concentrate on that…”

Now slowly start to mumble The Entry of the Gladiators by Julius Fucik in her ear!

(CLICK HERE to listen to that famous song we all know)

She will confirm because this is about the only circus music everybody knows and
remembers. Try it and you will see you can induce a memory and she will believe AND
CONFIRM she was thinking of this music. The beauty is that if she didn’t really hear
this music in her mind SHE WILL as soon as you start ‘singing’ it for her.

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I have been performing the inkblot effect for some time already but during the
writing of this book I came up with the music Entry Of the Gladiators and I included
it as an extra bonus reveal. This reveal alone is so strong it could be the kicker ending
of the effect!

I have tested it a few times these past few weeks with much success every time.

If you only whisper it in her ear, her reaction will be enough and people will assume it
was a 100% spot on hit and you still have the circus to reveal. If you sing the song
aloud so all people can hear it, the reveal of the circus will be a little weaker but still a
great reveal. I have done it both aloud and whispering and both went very well. You
can choose what you like best but for me I think I prefer to wisher it in her ear just
before I sing it aloud and immediate reveal the circus but I make a big deal of it.

This is what I do:

I explain that she is doing very well and that I can feel so many positive energy and
many different impulses and images. I tell her that she must have an extremely strong
and sensitive mind and that she is able to do amazing things as long as she believes
in it! Then I say;

“It’s so overwhelming and I’m getting a little confused here because I receive so much
information.”

Now I explain that silent sounds can help me in a situation like this and I ask her to be
completely silent and concentrate on all the sounds she could hear at that place at
that moment in time! Remember people don’t have a clue where you are heading to
and so does the spectator, you are still miles ahead.

Again I really act as if I’m reading her mind with every sense I have and I make some
statements she can only confirm with saying; Yes.

“I hear all kinds of different sounds!

“…but there is definitely music!!”

“But it’s not on the radio…!”

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“The music is coming from the right…

Now I point with my arm to the right side of the spectator and move it a little up and
down as if I try to feel the direction the music is coming from. A little later I keep my
arm to the right of my spectator but I keep it pointed upwards (remember that in a
circus the orchestra is above the artists entry most of the time) and I continue;

“I see people… they are in a special area making that music…”

“It’s live music… but not music you would hear on a concert or festival”

“Please look at me…”

“I get the feeling that the music is coming from above”

(B.T.W. If the spectator should ever say that in his mind the music coming from the
left instead of the right, just say that this is because you are standing face to face and
close your eyes and turn your body in the same direction still pointing with your arm
to prove you really are experiencing the same thoughts)

“It’s probably coming from all sides but I see a few musicians on a higher level”

“There are two or three, no even more musicians… it’s a group or a band, no it’s an
orchestra… correct?!” Immediately followed with: “Please don’t answer!”

“Hmmm aaaaah!”

Nod your head as if on the rhythm of the beat and whisper the song in her ear and
immediately act as if you now see the whole picture. Now you can sing or hum The
Entry Of the Gladiators out loud with a very big smile (I bet she will smile back at
you!) and you can now end with two more big reveals.

A. You now reveal in the most dramatic way that you can see what see
sees and that you now feel what she feels and that you can hear what
she heard. Try to act as much as possible, feel the happiness of this special
moment and with a big smile reveal she is in a circus! Don’t be afraid to
add extra details: I smell cow or horse poo… it’s a circus a red with blue
circus, I see clowns and one that is very close to you.

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 “Is this correct, yes or no?”

Now take your first applause and act happy as if you are finished. Pause for a moment
and you are now ready for another big reveal:

B. “But wait… that’s not the thing you were concentrating on! It was not a dog
or a cat… but it was an animal only it was bigger. Also it was not a lion… nor
a horse” BIG SMILE HERE! “You were thinking of an elephant!”
“You always loved elephants as a kid, didn’t you? (and before she can
answer you quickly add) “Yes, elephants and dolphins… that is why you
created this wonderful memory!”

Here you can end the demonstration but it’s extremely important that you not only
thank your helper loud and clear but also complement her on her teleporting skills,
really exaggerate that she is a really gifted person and that she has a very strong
mind and intuition. This is the most important part of the demonstration because
chances are high that she will now only exaggerate what happened later and make
this extremely strong effect even stronger. The more you give her credit the more she
will brag about what happened and even believe in it too!

I think this is one of the strongest things you can do with a SvenPad® even before
you begin the effect you are so far ahead. I would spice up the demonstration using
hypnosis. You can easily guide your helper into a realistic and happy (semi) hypnotic
state and guide the spectator in this hypnotic state like in my variation of Sven
Inception later in the book…

Most of the time this is it,

but sometimes there is a second out,
this is also a very easy and a very strong out!

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The Zoo

THE ZOO (Your second out for a small percentage of the time)
If she is thinking of a zoo you will reveal it in a similar way but now after question
number 8 you continue with your second out ‘The Zoo’ as following (don’t worry it
may look much to remember on paper but it really is much easier as you might think.
Just imagine and visualize yourself being at that place that I will implement in your
head when you read through the next part and it will work as a strong mnemonic
making your presentation much easier) OK, let’s continue after reveal number 8 but
now switch to zoo the moment we know your spectator is concentrating on
something outside most probably the zoo:

9. “You are definitely outside and I see rocks, I see a lot of rocks on the back but
you are not in the mountains!”

10. ”I think there is sand between the rocks… Yes I can definitely see sand, it’s a
large place with sand in the middle with a three without leaves… and even no
branches. It’s what is left of a three, can that be correct?!”

I bet that your helper will see the three without branches and for the rest of the
audience this are unbelievable and very precise details you could never know
especially because you started out with an unknown inkblot…

11. Now you describe the place a little more accurate:

”Water… I see some kind of puddle or a ‘mud pool’ it’s pit with dirty water in
the middle of the sand…”

I’m trying to implement the thought of a dirt pool here. The ones that you see
in a zoo where elephants play and wash themselves in.

“And hé… I also see water very close to you, between you and the sand”
“Is this some kind of canal?...”
“You can’t go any further because of the canal!” “Is that correct?!”

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 12. “I hear music, look around you in your mind!... and is there some kind of fence
on the sides?... Hmmmm rock on the back, much sand and old three and that
music soft background music”

“This is NOT music you would hear on the radio, and you are outside, music
you hear outside but not music you would hear on a concert or a festival!”

Again you reveal many details as if you are reading the spectator mind and
see everything she is thinking step by step, as if you are really seeing what she
sees, hearing what she hears and feeling what she feels.

13. “The music has no name. It’s very relaxing music, kind of mediation sounds
that are almost unnoticeable. So relaxing and so pure… as if it’s part of nature”
“Can you feel that now?”

A statement your spectator will most likely affirm like all other statements that
where all very precise and not just a few vague pronunciations.

You could ad that you hear some other and louder sounds in between after you got
confirmation. Like the sound of a horn or a hooter. Here I hint at the sound of an
elephant that will become more clear later…

A. You now proved that you can see what see sees, that you could feel what
she feels and that you can even hear what she heard. Try to act as much as
possible, feel the happiness of this special moment and with a big smile reveal
she is in a Zoo!

Don’t be afraid to add some extra details:

”I smell animal poo… it’s a Zoo, a large Zoo, you see cages and water…”

Ask for conformation:

“Is this correct? Was the place you were concentrating on a Zoo?!?”

Now take your applause and act happy as if you are finished. Pause for a moment and
you are now ready for another big reveal and say:

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 B. “But wait… that’s not the thing you were concentrating on! It was alive…
hmmm it was an animal hmmm
Let me concentrate. I can see some animals, big animals but not a lion or a
beer… but it was an animal that you were concentrating on!”

“Only it was a bigger animal. Also it was not a giraffe… nor a bull”

BIG SMILE HERE NOW!

“You were thinking of an elephant!”

“You always loved elephants as a kid, didn’t you?

And before she can answer you quickly add:

“Yes, elephants and dolphins! That is why you created this wonderful
memory…”

You could end here, but you could also do a very short reading about her choice.
Remember we started the whole experiment with the Dr. Eamon Psychological
Inkblot Test Pads.

You already had many very specific reveals so keep it short like:

“You were a happy kid even though you had some difficult times. You are a very
strong person now! You really love animals and they can make you very happy. You
are a kind and loving person and I see a bright future ahead of you where your
personality will shine even more. You have a wonderful karma and you are a really
gifted person. You have many beautiful things ahead of you as long as you believe in
yourself. Thank you so much for helping me.”

It’s not really a reading but more a way to say thank you and goodbye in a way that
fits the experiment with the Dr. Eamon Psychological Inkblot Test Pads.

Again I keep it short because the demonstration was already very strong and as if you
were directly looking into her head.

Remember the audience has no clue about what she is thinking!

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 They think she just saw one of 100 inkblots! (Nobody will count)

They think your helper could imagine or create ANYTHING they want.

You must have been in her mind to know all these details about a memory
that she just made up. A memory that she never spoke about and nor did
she write anything down!!

The emergency out (I never needed it but…)

Most mentalism demonstrations have a small chance of going wrong and I firmly
believe that you always should be prepared with a solid ‘out’ if this should ever
happen. Now this is a great effect to include a reading with, but a reading is also the
way to go if your helper doesn’t hit (if she doesn’t see an elephant but a bear, an alien
or whatever). If this should ever happen you should be prepared to give your helper a
nice reading about the way she thinks and the meaning of bear, alien or ‘whatever’
and your helper.

SOME EXTRA IDEAS!

- What if we don’t mention the elephant?!??

PLEASE KEEP READING!

Many people will think that I am crazy, but I have performed this demonstration many
times without revealing the elephant at the end!

It may be a personal taste, but I discovered over the years that mentalism hits so
much stronger if people really doubt that what you do is real. This is what Mentalist
Bob Cassidy calls “The Logical Disconnect” I never claim to be the real deal, but I try
to leave it open to interpretation and make the mind reading look real whenever I
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disconnect greatly amplifies the perception what they experienced was genuine. I
just love the reactions when this happens! Put yourself in the spectators mind. The
fact that your audience does not know about the elephant, makes it nearly impossible
to backtrack and deepens the mystery as to how I somehow knew so many personal
details about my volunteers memories and thoughts.

The audience will easily forget that your helper had to create something in their mind
in the beginning, and even if they do remember… the Elephant was freely chosen
from one of many different possible inkblots… and someone could create a
thousands of things from an inkblot!!!

Also, by not revealing or talking about the elephant it seems impossible as to how the
performer connected with a circus or zoo. The same thing goes for your helper: If you
like you may reveal the elephant (as I did in the beginning when I started performing
the Inkblot Test). However the audience or the helper might later assume that I must
have known about the elephant one way or another and that this might have been
the way I connected it to her memory.

By leaving the actual Elephant out of reveal, there are no connections or loose ends!
So how could I know? Think about it and perform it how you like it best. I guarantee
that both options will generate amazing reactions!

The important subtleties

To add another layer of deception I got the idea (so this is not tested in the real world
yet) to end this demonstration with a completely wrong guess! However, in a way you
would still get all the credit and at the same time disconnect the methodology even
more…

Instead of telling her that she was thinking of an elephant say:

“In your mind you just created a memory no one could know about and with the
power of your mind you were able to send me bits and pieces of that memory…

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At some moments even very clear details I could never know… You have a very
powerful mind and you are capable of having a strong paranormal connection if you
are open to it like you just did…”

1. “I was able to see through your eyes”

2. “I was able to hear what you heard”
3. “and I was able to feel how you felt in that moment in time”
Note: These statements are the most powerful statements you can ever make during
a mindreading demonstration but they are extra valuable when you helper confirms
this is what happened! And if you look at your helper with the expression and body
language (as you seek confirmation), your helper WILL give you that confirmation!!!

Even if you continue with:

4. “and did you feel it too…?”

Another great line to setting everyone up for a big finish - with a total miss!

“You were also concentrating on an object or a thing! And even though I was able to
see what you saw, hear what you heard and feel what you felt and I really was there
with you in that moment in time, the thing you were concentrating on is still too
vague for me but I think it is becoming more clear now. I had flashes of a lion or
another large animal but a few moments ago I saw some very clear images of
something that first looked like a RED CIRCLE, but now it’s becoming more apparent
to me… I think I recognize what I saw: A RED CIRCLE is the thing you send to me in
your mind but I think it is the round and red arena in the middle of the circus?

Your helper will answer probably even a little disappointed: “NO,” and now you
immediately say:

“Oh… but were you not thinking of the circus arena? It really was so clear for a short
moment as if I could see you looking at the red round circus arena in the middle of
the circus!”

Well my experience says that you must have chosen the most selfish spectator if she
does not step in to make it right for you here. If you present it well and pick your
spectators carefully, I would bet they will say that they have had that image in their
mind just a moment ago. Otherwise, you could just ask: “But did you have the image

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of the circus arena in your mind? It was so clear…” Naturally, she will confirm she was
concentrating on a circus, and the moment she confirms it you immediately show a
visible blast of relief! Every muscle in your body relaxes and you appear totally happy
with the result! No matter what you will always win. [Everything connects, you saw a
lion or a large animal and a little later a clear image of a big red circle that later
turned out to be the circus arena and that was exactly what your helper saw and
confirmed. As with the music described earlier, you can create a false memory here if
needed! Even if your spectator didn’t think about a red arena, the thought will be
implemented if you present it as described. Choose your helpers well and ‘play’ nicely
together and you both will have great experience.

You proceed to then thank your audience and ask for a very big applause for your
helper that doesn’t have time to say “No it was an elephant” and even if she does it
doesn’t matter, you act as if it’s totally unimportant, and ‘as if’ you are totally euphoric
now!!!... (You probably really are!) Enjoying your applause!

If you are new to mentalism perhaps this last page will sound weird to you or maybe
you have some doubts about how you might end your demonstration like this, but if
you are a pro, you are probably smiling now…

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How to create your own Inkblot Test Pad?!

If you create your own Doctor Eamon - Psychological Inkblot Test Pads™ you will
have one of the strongest believable mind reading demonstration you can get. I
guarantee that there is no stronger SvenPad® effect. The disconnection is devilish
and perfect in every way. A real killer routine and a One-SvenPad® Mini-Act!

Immediately after Brett Barry read the Psychological Inkblot Test he wrote:

The Inkblot Test is sensational!

VERY VERY GOOD SIR.
I love all the nuances.
I loved that Inkblot Test
Especially the idea at the end about,
NOT revealing the elephant…
Just super!

After this many emails followed and I kept adding subtleties and improvements and
Brett immediately wanted to produce a Deluxe Version Inkblot Test Pad in a 500
Limited Edition run and we both agreed that this would be a great idea. Within a few
weeks Brett had his printer print the first 10 Psychological Inkblot Test Pads™ and
they were amazing!

We only needed to change the size of the inkblots just a little and I had to fix one
spelling mistake on the cover and for the rest everything was ready to go but I wasn’t
ready and wanted to finish writing the book first but ideas kept coming and soon
after that Brett invented and released his new KØD Pads™ and he too had a lot of
work producing and marketing his wonderful new SvenPads® all over the world.

Months went by and we both were too busy to finish the Deluxe Limited Edition of
these wonderful Psychological Inkblot Test Pads™ and maybe if there is enough
demand (just let us know on Facebook and Magic Café) we will still produce a
Limited run*.

*The price will be around $89,99 and Limited to a maximum of only 500 Deluxe Inkblot Test Pads.

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Linda Loopers Diary
Another amazing more bizarre SvenPad® example you could create if you want is
what I call “Linda Loopers Diary” This is essentially a bizarre children’s diary filled with
text, drawings and doodles from a child with a twisted mind who later killed her
parents and the boy next door. This is just a crazy example and again food for a juicy
story, and a great story is half the trick. A good conversation starter is very valuable
for every mentalist.

I’m not going to write a complete story or presentation but I hope to give you more
than enough to get your creative juices going and create your own pads and
hopefully the most weird and interesting stories.

Construction this pad(s) will be some work, but because you can use text, drawings
and doodles all mixed together we have something very powerful to create some very
special SvenPads®.
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Because in a diary like this you can have it all mixed up: words, text, drawings and
doodles, multiple pieces of information that you can reveal in any way you want all on
one force page. Spice it up with some blood, tears or other liquids and micro
materials like in the Mini Museum.

You can also make more than one force page and use a Split Pad, a SvenPad® on
Hoy or use the new SvenPad Triple Bank. Linda Loopers Diary is a perfect example to
use some Easy Pumping too. Plan the force page well and you will be able to reveal
multiple pieces of information. You could use just about anything. It’s a diary of a
freaky child that is going to be a serial killer so nothing is out of the ordinary unless
you write normal things.

a Color drawing
a Black and White drawing
a Time
a Number
a Date
a Name(s)
a few lines of text
a Card
a Wish, her hate or even a death wish…

Anything you can imagine and write, draw, glue or paste on the force page…
The story could also be about an extremely gifted child of 6 with all kinds of things a
child of that age would normally never know, or about. Some Siamese twins that are
connected with the head and that can see through each other’s eyes, hear though
each other’s ears and taste through each other’s mouths (and believe it or not but
two very sweet little girls really exist that both share the same brain. The girls have a
conjoined thalamus, the part of the brain that sends physical sensations and motor
functions to the cerebral cortex, allowing them to hear each other's thoughts and see
through each other's eyes)

If you do your own drawing, I would recommend that you search Google for ‘horror
drawings and doodles’ and you will find many inspirations for one of the most
amazing SvenPads® you can ever create. It will be easy to create, It will look great,
bizarre, weird, spooky, horror and it will have a great story to tell.

And it’s perfect for revealing multiple pieces of information.

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All SvenPads® in a row

ALL
SvenPads
In
a
row

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The Original SvenPads®
When I started writing this book we only had the Original SvenPads®
The Original SvenPads® came in two really great sizes: Pocket size and Stage size

The Stage size is about twice the size as the Pocket size and both sizes are perfect!

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SvenPads® - The Next Generation
Only a few months later Brett developed some great new SvenPad® variations and
the SvenPads® became a new ‘classic’ in the world of professional mentalism.

The SvenPad® Mini

I think they are the most beautiful SvenPads®

I remember when I first saw and felt the beautiful Black SvenPad Mini I immediately
fallen in love with it. Perfect for walk around and if you need to save pocket space.

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But Brett didn’t stop there…
No only a little later Brett created the most innocent looking SvenPads® ever.

The Sven Notes

Again Brett went all the way and created a SvenPad® from the most famous and
innocent looking pads in the world, “Post-its”. With eye for details, Brett again went
for nothing less than perfection!

The Devilish design of the Sven Notes

should fool the most skeptical audience!

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The Sven Notes are a perfect companion for the SvenPad Mini.
Both take up little pocket space and you can perform the same miracles as with the
originals…

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Brett soon discovered that one SvenPad® that could force three things would be the
ultimate SvenPad® and when Christopher Taylor came up with the idea of using
colors Brett created a perfect multi force pad and the Ultimate SvenPad® was born!

The Triple Bank SvenPads®

One Triple Bank SvenPad® can do the same you can do with 3 Original SvenPads®

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With a SvenPads® you can force anything you want, anything you can think of
without any restrictions whatsoever. Naturally you can use as many SvenPads® as
you need and force as much as you like but with the Triple Bank SvenPads® you
have ultimate control with just one pad with 120 pages (40 pages for each section)!

Even the smallest Little Details…

On the back of every pad you will find an OfficeMax Memo Pad barcode sticker that
you would find on every normal pad

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The Perfect Pen
And last but not least Brett wouldn’t be Brett if he didn’t go all the way to find the
perfect pen to write on your precious SvenPads®. and with a little experimentation he
found a pen that is very easy to read also doesn’t bleed.

The PENTEL ENERGEL BL110 is the perfect pen for the job.

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You can order this pen and all SvenPads® here directly from Brett Barry:

www.SvenPads.com
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Psychological Inkblot Test Pad

Only ten samples where printed. They look really great and when the demand is high
maybe we will produce an Exclusive Limited Edition…

And then Brett reinvented the SvenPads®

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The SvenPad® KøD Spiral Pad

Not only did Bret Barry produce all SvenPads ™ from the highest quality , he also
invented the new SvenPad® KøD. A spiral pad that is nothing like any other spiral
pad. All pages are glue in a very special way so it looks like an ordinary spiral notepad
but it has all the features SvenPad® but now even more innocent than ever.

The SvenPad® KøD’s are

also the first SvenPads®
with lined pages…

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Stage Size SvenPad® KøD Spiral Pad

Soon after the first SvenPad® KøD Spiral Version Brett released the Stage Size
Version. The Stage version came in two different sizes: 1. European Version A4 with a
Blue Cover and the American Version 8.5 x 11' with a Red Cover.

1]

As you could already read in this book, with most SvenPad® demonstrations I prefer
to lie about the number of pages. Nobody will count and you will have a much
stronger effect when it looks like they could select a page from 100 pages in contrast
to only 40 or 50 pages. That’s why I advised Brett to also change the number of pages
on the cover of the new SvenPad® KøD ,and I’m happy he did.

1] The pictures above here are sample versions were the red version still has 50 sheet on the
cover but if you order a SvenPad® KøD’s Stage Size it will have 100 sheets on the cover.
The normal size SvenPad® KøD’s now have 50 sheets on the cover and I hope the next batch
will also have 100 sheets on the cover. Maybe a small detail but as you probably already
know… “It’s all in the small details!”

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All these SvenPads® are produced by:

www.SvenPads.com

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Ungimmicked SvenPad® Power

If you like perfection and if you like to leave you audience totally clueless with NO
way to backtrack making it the most perfect and the most impossible SvenPad®
version you can ever perform, than you should really buy some ungimmicked
SvenPads®! They are now available in all versions. These pads are unique and a must
have for every serious performer. With a bar code at the back side, immediately
differentiating them from the normal gimmicked version.

With an ungimmicked SvenPad® you can have the audience examine the pads after
the demonstration, but you can also do some great mentalism with the ungimmicked
SvenPads® that you can’t do without the gimmicked SvenPads® (as you can read
below).

The best part is that you can leave them with a totally examinable SvenPad®
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The Switch
The easiest way is to switch the SvenPad® you used during a demonstration for an
ungimmicked duplicate SvenPad® and leave it behind for examination. Now even the
most clever audience will not have a clue. There are many ways to switch your pad.

On stage behind you suitcase or table. Just put it down and take it back up again.
In stand-up situations act as if you are looking for something, put the pad in your
pocket and pretend to immediately bring it back out again when your other hand
takes out a lighter or a deck from another pocket. The easiest way is to pretend you
are finished and put the pad away, but then act like you forgot something and take
the pad again but now you take the ungimmicked pad show some details or make a
joke or anything that is not out of the ordinary completely depending on the routine
you just performed. Most of the time it all depends on the routine you perform and
the situation but for the seasoned mentalist/magician, a fast switch should not be a
problem!

Bold but important

With an ungimmicked SvenPad® you can do almost the same demonstration as with
a real SvenPad® but of course use another method to Force a page. Naturally, you
should NOT use this method if you have not demonstrated a real SvenPad® with
them first! Having them handle a real SvenPad® first will plant the idea that they
really had a free choice (the power of a real SvenPad®) and they should already be
convinced that really have a free choice because they previously handled the pad
‘freely’ and they could have opened to any page. It will not come up in their mind that
you used other trickery, because everyone saw how open and free the choice was
during the prior demonstration(s). With the ungimmicked SvenPads® you can force
the info and/or peek the info and you could pretend to do the same as with the
gimmicked SvenPads® but you may now use another method to accomplish this - so
you can leave them with a pad to examine and they will be totally clueless!

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Other ways to get info

Riffle force 1
You can also do a riffle force with a pad. Just adapt the handling a little and you will
be able to do a perfect riffle force and force any page you want in a ungimmicked
SvenPad®

I found that holding the pad with my left hand (along the long sides), and with the
open side towards the helper, using my finger or pinky to keep a break and riffling at
the short open side. When they call stop I use my right pinky that I had secretly put in
the break from the left finger during the riffling to open the pad on a forced page.

I would first show all pages very clean one more time, keeping a break at the page I
want to force or at a page that I just remembered. Then I close the pad with my right
hand covering the break when my right hands riffles thru the pages until my helper
calls stop, all while looking away. Then immediately give the opened pad to the
audience helper and continue with the demonstration but at the end leave the pad
behind.

Riffle force 2
Another way to force a page is to put a coin on the page you want to force. Ask a
spectator to call stop but because you riffle very fast the spectator will be too late. A
simple joke but it also sets them up to call stop fast the second time! Now you riffle
again and time to open at the force page after about 3 seconds when the spectator
calls stop.

Peek (page numbers)

If you write a page number you can peek the page number. If you know what is on
every page you’re fine but you probably don’t. So you could make a cue list or make a
duplicate pad and use this pad to get the info on the chosen page.

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Peek (Mnemonics)
In my previous book teleFoto eXtreme Chapter 6, I explained how to make a Peg
System list with words that rhyme or visually connect to a number so they are very
easy to remember for the rest of your life without much practice.

Mnemonics that rhyme like one is a gun, two is a shoe, three is a tree and four is a
door. Words that visually connect to a number like one is a pencil, two a swan, three a
camel and four the sail of a sail ship and so on can be used instead of a cue card or a
duplicate pad as written above. As soon as you know the page number is number
one, you know the drawing on that page is a gun. If the page number is two you
know the drawing is a shoe and twelve would be a drawing of a swan.

Growing is Knowing
Also you could use my ‘growing is knowing’ system from the teleFoto eXtreme book
to multiply your mnemonics by three. A small number one is a small pink toy gun, a
normal size number one would be a real dangerous black gun and a normal size
number one that is underlined would be the biggest of all three guns and that could
be a tank. In this system the first item is always the smallest like a pink toy gun (the
number is written smaller than the rest). The second item is always the middle in size
and a number one written in normal size would be the ‘normal’ item like the
dangerous black gun. And the underlined number will cue you the biggest of the
three like an underlined one would be a tank. You can use this system in many ways.

If you want a more in-depth explanation and examples of this technique I can really
recommend reading the teleFoto eXtreme e-book. You will find many valuable tips
and gems for mentalism, memory and naturally many great ideas to use teleFoto in
an eXtreme way.

Peek (a code)
Another way to secretly code what is on the page is a small version of the drawing or
a part or something that refers to the drawing. An example is a small star on the
bottom corner of the page that will code you a large star or a sky filled with stars.
Two circles could code you a bike, a square could code you a box, a coffin or a
football field and so on. Any small item in a corner (that can cue you the drawing)
may be used.
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It’s easy to make and easy to do but it will take a SvenPad® performance to the
highest possible level. What I prefer to do is to end the effect in a way that a
spectator or helper still has the pad in her or his hands. Sometimes I just say that if it
was not so much work to write 100 pages they could keep the pad, but to show how
many things they could choose from I ask them to look what would have been
chosen if they picked one page further and the next one and the next one, and the
page before the chosen page and so on and then just say “You can check every
page…” and continue with another demonstration and have them keep the pad
during the other performance. Sometimes I ‘accidently’ drop the pad on the floor
when I start a new demonstration hoping someone will pick it up and have a look
inside.

The Bold and the Beautiful

If you set-up your SvenPad® the right way you can have one or two extra things you
like to force on some of the non-force pages and use any of the method above to do
the force. As long as you use it with the real SvenPad® handling before or after you
won’t have a problem.

It’s Bold and it’s Beautiful

and it will give you some

free extra power…

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A Large Pile of SvenPads®!
Some EXTRA UNGIMMICKED pads can really amplify your demonstration. Having a
large pile of SvenPads® on the table would really enhance the effect!

There are two easy ways you could use to pull this off.

1) Magicians Choice
Let’s imagine you have a pile of 10 pads on the table. One gimmicked SvenPad® and
nine Ungimmicked SvenPads. Now use the magician force to force the gimmicked
pad e.g.

“Make two piles of five and hand one pile to me”

Discard the pile without the SvenPad® and continue with the pile that has
the gimmicked SvenPad®

You are now left with 5 pads which include the gimmicked pad in
A) your hands or
B) in the spectators hands.
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A) in your hands:

You ask: “Are you left handed or right handed?”

Let’s assume she answers; “Right!”
Then you immediately say; “Then FIRST point with you RIGHT finger to one of the
pads I’m holding”.
If this is the gimmicked SvenPad® you are done.
If not, let her also point to a second pad with her LEFT finger.
If this is the gimmicked SvenPad® ask her to put both on the table (and
you just put the other three far away)
o Now immediately ask her to put her right hand on one of the two
pads that are left on the table.
If this is the gimmicked pad ask her if she is 100% sure and
discard the other pad so you can let her continue with the
gimmicked pad!
If this is NOT the gimmicked pad you immediately have her
discard the last chosen pad and continue with the only pad
that is left on the table (the gimmicked pad).

If she didn’t select the gimmicked pad immediately discard her selections
and continue with the 3 pads that you are holding (with the gimmicked
SvenPad® in between) and ask her to take two.
o If you are left with the gimmicked pad ask her to put the pads she
choose away and you are done.
o If she takes the gimmicked pad put the one you have left away and
ask her to give you any of the two she is holding and discard the
ungimmicked pad. If she keeps the ungimmicked pad immediately
let her put it away with the rest and say this is the chosen one,
pointing to the one she just gave you.

B) in the spectators hands:

You ask: “Are you left handed or right handed?”

Let’s assume she answers; “Right!”
Then you immediately say; “Then FIRST put one pad on the table with you RIGHT
hand”.
If this is the gimmicked SvenPad® you are done!

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 If not, let her also put a second pad on the table with her LEFT hand.
If this is the gimmicked SvenPad® ask her to put the other three away.
o Now immediately ask her to put her right hand on one of the two
pads that are left on the table.
If this is the gimmicked pad ask her if she is 100% sure and
discard the other pad so you can let her continue with the
gimmicked pad!
If this is NOT the gimmicked pad you immediately have her
discard the last chosen pad and continue with the only pad
that is left on the table (the gimmicked pad).

If she does not select the gimmicked pad immediately discard her two
selections on the table and continue with the 3 pads that she is holding
with the gimmicked SvenPad® in between and ask her to give you two
pads.
o If she is left with the gimmicked pad simply put the other pads away
and you are done.
o If she hands you the gimmicked pad ask her to put the one she has
left away and make a final choice; don’t say anything just take the
last one.
If she takes the gimmicked pad, simply discard the other
If she takes the ungimmicked pad let her discard that and
emphasize that you are now left with one pad, a completely
‘free’ choice!

2) Just a pile of real SvenPads®

The second way to have a pile of SvenPads® is to use only gimmicked SvenPads®
This way you could also use marked SvenPads® with a different force in each of
them.

I think every experienced user will see the value of a pile of pads…

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The Game Show
Create a pad filled with questions for a gameshow. Explain that all questions that are
used in a professional TV-game-show are always tested before they are really used in
a real show. A professional production team works day and night to create the most
diverse sets of questions. These sets are printed and tested before they are used in a
real show. You also explain that you were able to get a copy of a few original sets of
these questions. Again very clearly show that you have a pad with a different question
on every page!

Read a few questions out loud in a way all people that surround you can see and
confirm that this really is what is written.

Now you ask for a helper and invite him or her to look at a question. Naturally this
will be the force question and you are now able to dramatically read the mind of your
helper. Take your time and act as if you are having trouble… pause for a moment and
then you smile and you now give the answer to a question you could never know!

This can be a great effect and it is also very suitable for the Split-Pad, Sven on Hoy
and the new Triple Bank SvenPads®!

With the new Triple Bank SvenPads® you could even give the precise answer to
every question thought of by 3 helpers. Do not underestimate the power of this
effect! Please keep in mind that your audience and your helper(s) are convinced that
there are hundreds of questions they could choose from.

Make it visual!

A great way to present the Game Show demonstration and many other SvenPad®
demonstrations is standing back to back with your helper. And when I think of a
presentation with a performer that is back to back with his helper I immediately have
to think of Bob Cassidy with his great line: “this is a psychic connection” (Mental
Miracles DVD)

Even if you have only 10% of the stage personality Bob Cassidy has you can create a
very entertaining and visually extremely interesting setting and presentation that will
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make the revelations much stronger because your helper will select the force page
when you are back to back with your helper both facing the opposite direction. There
is no way you could see what page your helper was looking at and almost at the same
time you can do the reveal in the most dramatic way possible!

Mentalism can become boring very easily. So we, as entertainers, we must do

everything we can to make it visual and entertaining. Sometimes it’s enough to have
a good story like with a Mini Museum or Linda Loopers Diary but even if the story is
extremely strong you still need to make it visual even if it’s only with your expressions
or one or two unexpected movements combined with a raising voice or hitting your
hand on the table. Your expression will tell more about the emotions or feelings than
words can do, and well timed tone of voice and tempos are very important too. When
you speak faster, also speak louder and when you slow down you also talk more
softly so as to keep their attention. I keep attention when I speak slowly and softly
and even more when I raise my voice in an unexpected moment a little later.
Investigate what you can add to the presentation to make it less boring and more
visual and entertaining. I learned that there are many ways to improve on how your
presentation looks. Use this knowledge and examine every effect and demonstration
you do. Create special moments when the story or demonstration permits this to
happen. These are little things one can do that can help keep it interesting to watch…
make it visual and keep it interesting. I could fill another book about this subject…
maybe I should it is so important!

You have no idea how many times I have had my helpers stand on a chair (sometimes
even on a table or on the bar) just for fun and no apparent reason whatsoever. Just
because it looks so good. It’s so visual that even people on the other side of the room
will notice something is happening at the spot where you are performing.

Imagine!

Imagine a presentation with the new Triple Bank SvenPad®, you standing back to
back with a lady and you can do a name, a date and a drawing duplication without
ever looking in her direction. It will look great and at the same time it’s so many more
convincing, unbelievable and thoroughly entertaining!

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How cool would it be if you could control what price a contestant will win and what if
you could even control who will win it?!

Again no problem using SvenPads®, many variations are possible if you keep
reading. I must admit that this is an idea I have not tested yet but I can guarantee
that I will make a great set of SvenPads® especially for this soon. I got the idea when
I was writing about Corporate and Trade Show Magic and how to customize your
SvenPad® for a company and you can use it for Corporate and Trade Show Magic
too but I thought this idea disserved a place on its own.

Method

You need at least one Price-Pad and a few Game-Pads. Create as many Game-Pads as
you want contestants. Let’s assume we use 4 contestants.

Price-Pads

This is the a pad filled with all the prices people can win. Just print 25 different
pictures of different prices, cut them out and glue them on every long page to show
all different prices later. Also print 25 pictures of the same price that you want to
force on the contestant and glue these on all short pages.

Game-Pads

These are the pads that control if a contestant will win or lose. An easy example
would be to have a pad with large red dots and large black dots and the contestant
who opens the pad at a page with a red dot is the winner. If they open the pad at a
page with a black dot they lose. It’s important that you have many more pages that
lose and only a few win pages! E.g. 22 pages that lose and 3 pages that win.

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Now you create as much Game-Pads you need but create one that can win, all others
can only lose. So with 4 contestants you need to make 3 Game-Pads that can only
lose and 1 Game-Pad that can also win, but not at every page…

Important:

This is the only SvenPad® that I would recommend not to use force pages at every
short (force) page. If you would have a winning sign at every force page the spectator
would win in the first round and the game would be over immediately but if you
create a SvenPad® with only a few winning pages the contestant can also lose a few
times too! Before he will eventually win.

Compare it with a set of gimmicked dice. If you have 3 gimmicked dice that don’t
have the number 3 on it and 1 ungimmicked dice that has all numbers on it, you can
setup a game and explain that the first contestant that will throw a 3 will win. Since
you control who has the only dice that can throw a 3, you can control who will win
the game. It can happen that the spectator will win in the first round but chances are
high that it will at least take a few turns to throw the winning number 3. Even if it
would take him 50 rounds to throw the 3 he will always be the first who throws a 3
and he will always win simply because the other dice are unable to throw a 3.

Use this principle with SvenPads® and you have a killer effect, especially if you don’t
put a winning page at every short (force-)page like with the dice. With this you create
another big layer of deception . If we use large red and black dots as in our example
you should make 21 pages with a black dot that lose and only 4 pages with a red
winning dot. This way it will probably take a few throws before you have a winner.
The fact that all contestants have a black dots a few times before there is a winner will
make the demonstration more plausible and fair.

Subtlety
When you explain the rules of the game always explain that; If 2 or more people open
the pads at a winning page, it’s a draw, and they both lose, and both contestants
must play again until there is only one winner! Naturally this is impossible because
only one pad can win but it it’s a nice subtlety to reinforce the idea that all
contestants can open the pad at a winning page.

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Price

The winner can select a price from your carefully prepared Price-Pad and you will be
able to show you have predicted the winner and the price.

Bonus Prediction

If you use a thumb writer you can even predict after how many rounds the contestant
won the game and if you wish even which contestant wins (this way you can have the
spectators mix up Game-Pads and freely divide them under the contestants
themselves).

Put the prediction in an envelope with a small window cut (like the dotted line below)
out at the back so you can easily thumb write the number of games (and the number
of the winning spectator if you want).

If everything goes as planned, I predict

that the contestant that will win in a game
of chance is contestant number . . . . . . .

I predict that this contestant

will actually win at game number . . . . . . .

The price she will select will be a *big hug

and a kiss on the cheek from the magician!

* Big hug and kiss can be anything. Just fill in the name of the price that you are
going to force with your Price Force pad!

I always like the diner for two joke. Force ‘a diner for two’ and have a can of soup for
two (or other cheap meal for two persons) ready to give to the winner.

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Sven Inception 1 by Brett Barry
By Brett Barry

Instead of mind reading – the idea here is to perform what I love to refer to as an
“inception of thought,” somehow placing my own private thoughts into the
spectator’s mind through no visible means, and using the audience as a kind of
control for the experiment. The beauty of this kind of routine is that the audience gets
to be “in on the secret” while the spectator thinks they know what is really going on –
with a kicker surprise at the end. The idea is to turn the tables on the group and
apparently putting a thought – your thought – into the mind of one participant.

In a nutshell a spectator is shown a pad which apparently contains all the names of
“People Magazine’s 50 top male celebrities .” That is how the pad is labeled on the
outside with a sticker (my preference) or boldly hand written. The pad is openly
shown to the audience only (while the spectator turns away) – and all can clearly see
the pages appear blank. Next the spectator secretly opens the pad and sees a male
celebrity and a movie, and the pad is put to the side.

What makes this routine a really fun and powerful gem is that the surrounding
audience believes they are “in on the secret” the entire time, while the chosen
spectator assumes this is just another mind reading experiment.

What follows is one of my personal favorite routines using a SvenPad!

PREPARATION:

Any of the SvenPads will work for this routine but I really prefer the larger stage size
or the original pocket size. For setting up the pages I strongly recommend using
PENCIL for writing on your force pages. The reason is that this type of routine puts far
more “heat” on your SvenPad, and since the pages are openly shown to be blanks – it
is important that nothing shows through.

First make a list of 25 different celebrities for your non-force pages, and decide on
one forced celebrity along with one movie that this particular celebrity is most
famous for (ie: Brad Pitt + Ocean’s 11).

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I also recommend buying an inexpensive phone case that has a photo of the celebrity
you are forcing. I bought my Brad Pitt case on Amazon.com
http://amzn.com/B016UZZUUI and the phone case acts as a casual convincer at the
end in terms of how you put the thought of the celebrity into the spectator’s mind.

In addition, I recommend putting a label on the outside cover of the SvenPad in large
print as a label or hand written naming the pad (for example People Magazine’s 50
Top Male Celebrities). Next, nice and large write in pencil the names of the 25 non-
force celebrities on alternating long pages starting with the first page of your
SvenPad. Finally, write the name of your forced celebrity (Brad Pitt) on the alternating
short pages and then just below, write in parenthesis (Ocean’s 11) repeating until the
end of the pad. Remember to write in PENCIL and not pen.

When opening the book to display, all the pages should now look blank and the force
pages (when opened in hand) should all have the name of your celebrity along with a
movie they are famous for (in parenthesis).

ROUTINE:

Take your iPhone out and casually flash it like you checked your email, then place it
screen side up on the table nearby

“Tonight, let’s try something a little different. Instead of my reading a mind, I thought
it might be more interesting to turn the tables and attempting an Inception – testing
whether I can put one of my thoughts into someone’s mind. How many of you have
seen the movie Inception?”

“Would you mind helping me sir? What is your name please? Jim – nice to meet you
and thanks for offering to help with tonight’s experiment.”

Once you bring the spectator up you hold the pad to show it, not yet opening it.

“Jim - within this pad I have written the names of People Magazine’s 50 top
celebrities as voted by readers in 2015. Many different stars names are here - both
male and female. All of you are probably familiar with many of the names from this
issue of People Magazine – with each page showing a different name. In a moment sir
I am going to ask you to choose one of these names and to keep it secretly to

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yourself. But just remember - my goal is not to read your mind – I am really hoping to
influence your mind – to put a thought into your head that was really mine and not
yours. Understood?”

I then motion to the spectator to turn around and close their eyes.

“Please turn away for a moment so I can show everyone else many of the names
written. Audience – as I show you these please try not to react as you see the names.”

Once the spectator is turned, I then open the SvenPad to many random areas
showing all the pages to be blacks – nodding my head and smiling as I show the pad
and repeat as needed so everyone is in on the secret – all the pages show as blanks.

“Ok so Jim you may turn around now. The group here can confirm that they saw
many different celebrities – is that correct everyone? Jim, are you right of left
handed? Right handed? Great – would you hold out your left hand like this and place
the pad flat and then with your right hand open to one of the celebrities? While you
are doing that all of us (motion to audience) will now turn away to give you some
privacy. “

Everyone turns away as the spectator opens to a force page.

“OK Jim you may hand me the pad as we won’t need this anymore.”

I suggest keeping the pad nearby though as it will come into play later.

“Jim – you should have a celebrity in your mind now correct? Are you familiar with
this celebrity? Excellent – I want you to now picture this celebrity in your mind. The
way they look – the color of their hair – all the little details.”

You then proceed to reveal a bit of the way the celebrity looks and some letter of
their name which you write on a sketch type pad – keeping the spectator from seeing
it - but letting the audience view it.

“By the way – how many movies do you think this celebrity has appeared in? Was
there one movie which came to mind when you saw the name? Great focus on that
too – the place, the sites the sounds. Got it?”

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You then start to name some sounds you hear – slot machines – describing the smell
of cigarette smoke.

You write down Brad Pitt – and Oceans 11 on the sketch pad for all to see except the
spectator.

“Jim – for the first time, what was the name of the celebrity in your mind?”

“Brad Pitt”

“And what was the name of the movie?”

“Oceans 11”

Performer now turns his sketch pad to show two matches.

“Jim now as amazing as that may be, I know what you might be thinking. You are
probably wondering whether all the pages on the pad you saw are all repeats – in
other words 50 pages all show the same name Brad Pitt? Well you would be half right
– all the pages do repeat, but not exactly in the way you are thinking.”

“Earlier I promised that I would try to do an Inception – to try to put my idea into your
mind. Now it’s time to prove it. Cheryl (as you call out one of the nearby spectators)
would you please explain to Jim what is going on here?”

“The pages are all totally blank – nothing is written on any of them,” she says with a
smile. All the other spectators nod in agreement.

Jim’s eyebrows rise with a puzzled look.

“That is correct and remember that my goal was to put a thought – my thought – into
your mind Jim. Before we started I took my phone out and some of you may have
noticed a photo on the back of my phone. Does anyone consciously remember
seeing it?”

The performer now turns his phone over for everyone to see the photo of Brad Pitt on
the case.

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For the kicker, the performer then either opens the gimmicked SvenPad and shows all
the pages blank – or shows a switched out non-gimmicked SvenPad with the same
outside labeling and shows all pages to be completely and utterly … blank.

Inception complete.

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Sven Inception 2
This is my variation on Brett Barry’s Sven Inception.

I really liked Brett’s idea but I was a little afraid that the pad is too suspicious and
maybe the audience will think there is something special with the pad like thin or
small letters the audience can’t read but the helper can and then the trick could lose
some of its power.

So I tried to add some extra layers and twists to the effect.

The first thing that came to mind was to hypnotize the spectator before you
introduce the ‘empty’ pad.

Thinking about it a little longer I think it’s better if we invite a second person and a
second pad and make it some kind of Synchronicity Effect.

In short:
Pretend to hypnotize the first helper, use a fake induction but act as if it’s all real.

Because the first helper now appears to be hypnotized she has her eyes closed and
you can clearly show that you have a blank pad, slowly show all pages are blank as in
the original effect but with the spectators eyes closed (hypnotized). Hand her the pad
and ask her to open her eyes the moment you click your fingers after you count back
from 5 to 1. Explain that she will feel a very positive energy and that she will be able
to do some amazing things in a moment.

Now clearly show a second pad with 50 celebrities to a second spectator (just say
there are 100 celebrities in it to make it even more incredible). You can use The
Dream Handling or the classic way but take care that spectator one can also see that
there is a different celebrity on every page of the pad spectator two is holding.

Here I like to add some show drama and pretend to create a psychic connection with
spectator one and spectator two. Position both spectators against each other and
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hands and tell them to feel the energy and do some things to create a dramatic
atmosphere. Now you have set the mood have spectator two open his pad and
concentrate on the celebrity he just had ‘freely chosen’ (without showing it to anyone
else). In the meantime spectator one must keep staring spectator two in the eyes!

Now ask spectator two to also look in the eyes of spectator one and send the name
of the ‘freely chosen’ celebrity too spectator one and really try to influence spectator
one and send the celebrity he saw. Now tell them to concentrate really hard and
explain that thanks to the hypnosis and the psychic connection the first helper can
see through the eyes of the second spectator and ask spectator one to open her pad
and look at ‘any page’ (without showing it to anyone else). She will now look at a
force page with the same celebrity that spectator two was sending to her.

Let her close the pad and hand both spectators a large whiteboard or other writing
device and have them both write down the name of the celebrity they saw without
showing it to anyone yet. It’s important that both spectators keep the pad close to
them when they write on the board, like under the arm or next to them on the table
but it should be absolutely clear that it’s impossible for you or anyone else to mess
with the pads when they were writing down the name. For this resin I prefer to have
them hold the pad under the arm or when they are seated on their lap.

You now turn to spectator two and ask him:

“You had a completely free choice of 100 different celebrities”

Let you helper confirm, he will say yes because he did see different celebrities in the
pad. Now ask:

“For the first time show us the name of the celebrity you were concentrating on”
He will show the name he wrote down and spectator one will smile.

Now turn to the spectator one and say:

“You didn’t see 100 celebrities in your pad… You only saw one picture or name
appear… correct?!”

She will confirm that this is correct because she only saw one celebrity. I use the word
appear to suggest to the audience it somehow appeared to add a little more drama.

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Now also ask spectator one (that was hypnotized) to show the name of the celebrity
she saw a few moments ago. She will show that she wrote the same name spectator
two wrote down.
This is an amazing effect on its own but it will be even more amazing when you
explain to spectator one what really happened:

- That spectator two had a completely free choice of 100 celebrities. Again
show all different celebrities in the pad spectator two was holding under his
arm.

For spectator one this already is an amazing demonstration but you have a kicker
ending that she doesn’t see coming.

- Turn to spectator one and ask her what she thinks is in the pad she was
holding. She will probably say; ”100 different celebrities too?!” or maybe “the
same celebrity on every page?!”, but she will have no idea that she is holding a
pad with only blank pages.

Like with Psychokinetic Touch where you explain that you only touched helper two
you will have the same stunning moment were everybody in the audience will confirm
that this is what really happened!

- Spectator one will be totally amazed when you slowly and very clearly show
her that all pages where empty, and when you explain that what she saw was
because she was able to see through the eyes of spectator two because she
has a very powerful mind and that she is very sensitive, and that you were able
to amplify this with your hypnosis.

Explain you immediately saw that she was special and thank her for helping you with
this experiment. Tell her not to worry and that the hypnosis will not influence her
negatively in any way. She will only feel more powerful, strong and more relaxed.

This last part I think is very important! Where you tell the spectator that she is really
special.

Make her special instead of making her feel she was tricked or fooled!!!

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Do the same with spectator two because he was able to send his thoughts to
spectator one so clear and fast so he must have a strong mind too and so on. Here
you end the demonstration.

This is just a short variation, you can still play it as a ‘Inception Effect’ or a
‘Synchronicity Effect’, ‘Seeing Through Other Peoples Eyes’ or a ‘Sender Receiver’
demonstration but I really think it all adds a lot to the effect.

More will happen and this will disguise the method much better. Two spectators are
in play and I think it will be visually more attractive if presented well and also more
entertaining as a demonstration.

Important Note on Hypnosis!

Hypnosis is one of the strongest things a mentalist or mystery entertainer can do.

I have been using hypnosis for over 30 years and from the moment I started
performing ‘mentalism-only’ I have used hypnosis in almost every effect I do. To
explain all the ins and outs, how and why hypnosis works and why it is so valuable
would take another book. Maybe there will be another eXtreme Mystery Entertainers,
Mentalism or Suggestionist Book someday but now I can only say hypnosis is very
powerful and should be incorporated many more in mentalism. It will enhance your
effects and many times hypnosis is a perfect fake explanation to hang on your effect.

If presented well it will balance between psychological and paranormal and this way
hypnosis can serve both worlds where people love to see psychological mysteries and
paranormal phenomena. Without claiming paranormal abilities you can certainly
make them doubt and show some incredible stunts. Naturally there is nothing really
paranormal about hypnosis, it’s all suggestion but when you believe in the suggestion
it will look real just like a dream.

That was why I called myself John Dream long ago.

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 John Dream!
Dealer in dreams and fantasies.
If you can Dream It, you can Do It!

This last line says it all:

If you can Dream It, you can Do It…

A dream can be so real, a suggestion can be the same as a dream and imagination is
the keyword here; The suggestionist guides the spectator in his dream using the
spectators imagination.

Long ago I was convinced that all these hypnosis shows also used stooges and if I
wanted to do a hypnosis show I needed some good actors too… but I was so wrong!
When I started using hypnosis I was just acting and testing with the intention to use
hypnosis as a fake explanation in my mental effects, but people really reacted to my
suggestions and I started to build on that and used it more and more ever since. I saw
people react really strong but more importantly when I spoke to the spectators later
they were really convinced the where hypnotized. Some could not remember parts of
the demonstration and others I could hypnotize again with only a simple click of my
finger, even hours later.

Long ago I was also convinced it would take at least 20 minutes to hypnotize people,
but later I learned it could be done in 20 seconds, or even 2 seconds. The
disadvantage of hypnosis is that you are never 100% sure how and how fast a
spectator you never met will react. This is why fake hypnosis with mentalism as a
safety net is so important.

Also if people accept a fake explanation like hypnosis you are far ahead and you can
use this to your advantage a lot. When people think they know what is happening or
how an effect could be done, they will admire what you do even more and this is
really important. It will feed and calm their brain the moment they think it’s
acceptable what you say you do. Many people are afraid of hypnosis and that’s
exactly why effects like this are so important!

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Question:

Why do I prefer people that doubt more than people

who believe what I do is real?

Answer:
People that doubt, believe or even better they know it can’t be real what you do but
they have no other explanation than that it must be real. This makes them crazy, they
are used to have a logical explanation for everything but now they are lost.

On the other hand a person that just believes that you can look in there head or see
through a wall is not a real challenge. These are the people that believe almost
everything.

Maybe these people are easy to mislead but what is the amazement if they just think
it’s normal you can look into their head? You could abuse them as a psychic and I
know many do, but I’m an entertainer and I hope you are too…

Then there is also a very funny group in between. They are the people that tell me I
have a camera in my pen and something electronic in my eye or that I took the coin
from there closed fist so fast they could not feel it and that I bend it and later put it
back superfast again so they didn’t notice it. Well I wish I could, and I know we all
heard these funny explanations that are really amusing but I prefer the first group
that really use their intelligence and I see it as a compliment when I can make them
doubt.

Hypnosis and Fake hypnosis.

I know many people will only quickly scan these pages fast to get as much effects and
secrets possible as fast as they can. They will probably not read this and also miss a
lot of the subtleties and extra’s buried in this book. But the fact that you are reading
this is really great, it says a lot about you and I want to thank you for that!

The value of using fake hypnosis in an effect like this is that you can use it to practice
or experiment with ‘real’ hypnosis without any fear! So what’s keeping you from
trying?! Testing if your spectator reacts to your suggestions is the most important
part of hypnosis. If your spectator reacts you can immediately build on that, take your

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spectator deeper into hypnosis and use it to demonstrate some other hypnosis stunts
with your new special skills. Don’t be afraid. Naturally you could use other mentalism
ideas like The 100th Monkey and many other effects but you will be amazed how
many people will react if you use just suggestions to accomplish some extra layers
and effects.

As an experienced suggestionist (that’s what hypnosis really is) it would be easy for
me to have my spectator experience the most amazing suggestions. From memory
loss to seeing things the audience can’t see, unable to move or even speak… really
amazing things can be done.

If, like in this effect your spectator can see something on a, to the audience blanc
page, then what is the power you try to demonstrate? For me hypnosis is a perfect
explanation especially because it can help you to do some real hypnosis if your helper
reacts your suggestions. Remember that and experiment with it!

You will see that many times you can use your spectator to do more than you can
imagine with any of the mentalism effects we all know. I have had spectators whisper
information in my ear and later when awake they didn’t have a clue of how I could
ever know the information that they just told me.

This book is focused on mentalism and I’m not going to write full hypnosis routines
or skits but I just wanted to briefly touch on this thing I love so much suggestionism. I
have invested many more time in suggestionism than in mentalism but almost always
used mentalism as a safety net. With effects like this you can do this too.

Experiment and use the power of suggestion!

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The eXtreme Dream Handling
Dream Handling 2

The Psychological Inkblot Test and the Dream Handling are two of my favorite
effects. The idea that you can have the spectator handle the pad from start to finish is
what makes The Dream Handling so powerful. To be able to just hand a SvenPad®
to a spectator and have him check the pad and show all the rest of the audience that
all pages are different before they select any of the (force) pages even when you are
at the other side of the stage makes it a killer handling.

I just love to add the Dream Handling to every SvenPad® demonstration. It’s really
so much fun to do. In August 2016 I was in Ibiza and I was jazzing around with my
SvenPad® before a performance. I discovered another way to have your helper do all
the work and the eXtreme Dream Handling was born. Dream Handling is just as
easy and fun to perform as the original Dream Handling but what makes it eXtreme
is that you could have two persons handle it in a way so one shows all pages are
different and the other can select a page from the same position. You don’t have to
use it for two persons, it’s just an extra option and you will always have another way
to handle your SvenPad® completely hands-off.

Explanation:

It is very important that with every step you mime to show what you want them to
do! When you demand eye contact when you speak it’s natural and very easy.

Hand the pad to your helper in starting position on his left hand, like this

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Ask him to take the pad at the open end and lift up the pad in a vertical position.
(a very easy step and the rest is even easier)

Ask to take the pad with the left hand (at the black part) at the bottom

Now just ask your helper to put his left finger on top and pull pack the pages so he
can see that all pages are different!

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From the side it will look like this

The when you say: “You can see that every page is different…“
The spectator will automatically tip over the pad and look inside.

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The handling is very simple and I guess many magicians will be test the Dream
Handling and the eXtreme Dream Handling with their first victims their partners.

But I promise that just like me you will be surprised by how easy and how powerful it
is to control your helper to do a part of the magic for you!

Here are some other pictures showing The eXtreme Dream Handling from the side.

1. Lift up the pad

2. Take it at the bottom and put the right finger on top and pull it back

3. Slowly let go of some pages so you can see all pages are different…

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The fun thing about this handling
is that, if you want, you could have a second spectator select a (force) page.

Just put the second spectator ‘face to face’ in front of the first spectator that is still
holding the pad like in the first picture.

Now the only thing you have to do is ask the second spectator to put his or her finger
on top of the pad (like the second picture) and pull back just a little and then open
the pad to any of the pages and look at the selected page. Simple and easy…

The only thing you need to do is give a few easy instructions and check that your
helper doesn’t lower the pad too much! If he does lower just ask him to hold the pad
a little higher or push his arm up a little to adjust the height.

Remember that you always need motivation to do what you do and in this situation
you stress that you want everything to happen 100% honest and fair.

Use it and have fun!

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eXtreme Mentalism Book
For many years I have been writing down my ideas, effects and presentations. From
complete new effects, to quick notes waiting to develop into an effect later.

Most of what you read in this book are from these notes that I wrote over the years
and maybe if ‘I can find the time to organize, write, translate and develop some of
these ideas than maybe I will write an eXtreme Mentalism Book or maybe I should
call it the eXtreme Mystery Entertainer Book and concentrate on mentalism,
hypnosis and many other components of a real mystery entertainer.

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The Multi-Force-Pad™
- How great would it be to be able to create a pad with 10 FORCES or
even more in one SvenPad®?

- How great would it be to have one SvenPad® that could easily force a
different item on up to 10 or even more spectators?!

- How great would it be if you could do that with a ‘normal’ SvenPad?

One SvenPad® Ten Forces!? Or even one SvenPad® and Twenty Forces!?

It’s easy with The Multi-Force-Pad™, Easy to perform and easy to create…

One night after performing Pin-Code-Killer I was in my bed thinking about the great
reactions it received. I’m a big fan of some of Peter Turner’s and Michael Murray’s
methods to discover and reveal a Pin-Code and I also really love Myke Phillips
iUnlockYourMind app (highly recommended). It’s one of the only app’s I use together
with teleFoto that can do amazing things too (see my other book the eXtreme
teleFoto e-Book). I use the iUnlockYourMind-PRO version and the plot is really great
and almost impossible to backtrack, mentalism at the highest level but as I wrote
before I did find out that more and more people really didn’t like it that I used their
real pin-code during a mindreading demonstration. This night I received some really
great feedback from the audience about Pin-Code-Killer and in my mind I created a
picture of a SvenPad® with 5000 pictures, materials, words, names, numbers and so
on. I knew that instead of all different Pin-Codes it must be possible to also use
different pictures, words, numbers, drawings, glued materials and so on.

The answer was simple and you can even have complete control of what you want to
force, when you want to force it, and to which spectator you want to force it.

Every SvenPad® user should AT LEAST own one or two Multi-Force-Pads™

I played with a few ideas to create a Multi-Force-Pad™ Naturally we have the Triple-
Banks, the Split-Pad, the Devils-Pad and later I will explain the Double-Sided-Pad
but the first eXtreme idea I wanted to share in this book was how you can force more
than one item in one ‘normal’ SvenPad®’.

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Method

In short:
You write multiple categories in a SvenPad® and you have multiple spectators select
items from different categories. Eventually every spectator will look at a similar force
page but they will all look up an item from another category. Because you know who
has what category you also know what they are thinking of.

But there is more:

We all know similar things have been done already, like a name, a date and a time
and or other combinations as I wrote in the Chapter; How to fill your SvenPads about
adding extra information to add another layer and extra reveal(s) to the trick but this
is a little different with The Multi-Force-Pad™ that is especially created to force more
items to more spectators.

To make things easy you can take any of the categories that are in the basic list in the
first Chapter of this book.

Examples of categories are unlimited, but to name a few:

- Food
- Famous People
- Time
- Dates
- Prices
- Animals
- Cards
- Countries
- Attractions
- Casino’s
- Restaurants
- Romantic things to do
- and so on

All examples that are in the ‘basic list’ mentioned in the first chapter and many many
more categories you can think of could be used to create a Multi-Force-Pad™. Just
pick your favorite categories and create your Multi-Force-Pad™.

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But ‘the ways’ you can fill your SvenPad® can also act as categories on its own. The
moment I realized that I knew it was easy and that it would look very cool at the same
time. A SvenPad really looks much better if you use pictures or glue some strange
materials in it, instead of just writing some words, numbers or drawings but with The
Multi-Force-Pad™ you can mix it all together and have some extra benefits at the
same time!

Using the different ways we can now fill a SvenPad® can now be categories too like;

- Writing (writing can still be more than one category like names, numbers etc.)
- Pictures
- Stickers
- Stamps
- Stains
- Hair
- Flowers
- Liquids
- And so on

No matter what, categories are the answer to create the most amazing Multi-Force-
Pad’s™

COLORS

You can write the name of the category above the force items but if you really want
to make things easy you could use a different color for every category. You could
even use just one category, like names and write some names in red, other names in
blue and so on like with Pin-Code-Killer and have a spectator select a red name and
another spectator a blue name and so on. This way it’s much easier for your audience
to read what is written in their chosen color without looking at any of the other
words/items on that page.

Depending on the SvenPad® you use, you can have more or less categories but as an
example let’s assume we use a normal SvenPad® and you will be able to write 10
categories easily and if you want you could even manage 20 in 2 rows with whatever
you want, words, names, items, numbers, photos and so on.

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Openly select
You could put the same amount of pieces of paper in a bag as you have different
category colors in your The Multi-Force-Pad™. Now have 3 helpers openly select a
color from the bag and hand the first helper The Multi-Force-Pad™.

Because you know the color your helper selected you immediately know the category
he will look at and remember. Repeat the same procedure with the second and third
helper and you are ready for a triple reveal mind reading sequence.

Cue Card or Quick Peek

If you have trouble remembering all the categories at your Multi-Force-Pad™ you
could use a cue card. You could print a list and glue it on the back of the pad or any
other place where you can see it secretly.

You could also just take The Multi-Force-Pad™ and look at a force page quickly
when you explain or recap how they just took the pad and looked at any page. Just
act as if you show how fair the selection was but in the mean time you can take a look
at the force page and the corresponding color(s) or categories. It’s easy and always
available. Maybe it’s not the best method but please do remember it because it will
be helpful if your memory lets you down sometime.

Memorize
You could memorized all categories. This can be very easy with the use of a
mnemonic system. In the teleFoto eXtreme e-book I explained a really great system
you can immediately use with 10 or 20 categories. It would be very easy to remember
almost without memorization!

Peek a Color
Instead of having them openly select the colors you could also use any trick method
to get to know the colors secretly to add another layer of deception. You could hold
the bag with 10 or 20 different colored crumbled up pieces of paper and look away
the moment they put their hand in the bag as if you can’t see what they do, but
secretly peek the color they selected a little later. A way to make it easier is to write
the category on the colored paper so your helper must open the paper to see the

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category they selected. You also could use colored balls in a bag that are too large to
completely hide in a small ladies hand and get a glimpse that way.

Force
There are many ways possible to get the information you need (the chosen color or
category) but there are also many ways to force a color like with cards, or force a
number and have a list with colors that are all numbered so you can still control what
color is chosen etc.

High Tech
There are also many High Tech ways to find out the chosen color. One piece of gear I
really love is Evolution created by Craig Filicetti from ProMystic, an amazing modular
system that can do the most amazing things. It is very small, very innocent and very
easy to use. As with most of Craig’s products you can’t go wrong with it. You could
also use Multi-Dimensional, Color Match or Proximity, all professional strong killer
effects created by Craig Filicetti. He creates miracles with the smallest components
available in the world and I personally know his customer support is world class.

Other High Tech methods would be an electronic impression device, like a

Mindbuster from Labco and so on. All perfect apparatus that can do the job very
reliable and very easy. There are also many low tech ways to get to know the chosen
color as I mentioned before but I only wanted to mention these wonderful apparatus
because when you already own any of them why not use them.

Mix up the information!

It’s very important that you make the pages look different by mixing up all data on
every page and writing it different and on different places of your Multi-Force-Pad™.
If you write, glue or tape the data on the force pages you must positions them on
different locations at every page and change the way you write it as much as you can
so that all force pages look completely different. This way it’s not chancy when a
spectator should see more than one force page or that a spectator could riffle one or
two pages further and see another force page. It could also happen that he looks
when the next spectator selects his force page. That’s why it’s best to tell the
spectator not to show anything to you or the other people in the room.

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Other Multi-Force-Pad™ ideas
You could even create a Dream Vacation (City, Celebrity, Price) or Dream Car effect
(Brand, Color, Price) and chose if you want to predict or mind read the outcome. I
would definitely prefer to read the mind of the spectator because I believe most
predictions are too magical and/or too unbelievable and immediately make the pad
suspicious but please choose whatever you like best and at least make one Multi-
Force-Pad™ a.s.a.p. you won’t regret it!

Repeat Performances
A Multi-Force-Pad™ is really great for repeat performances. Have about ten different
categories on each page and only use three (or less) of them for a demonstration.
This way you can use three different categories or three different colors in your next
demonstration, and three others after that. Now you can do repeat performances in
the same room for the same audience and you will have a different outcome every
time and still use the same pad every time. You could even use only one spectator
and use the pad e few times for the same audience using a different category or color
every time (as long as you make the pages look different by mixing up the
information).

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Numbers
Instead of using colors you could also use numbers to identify the force and as with
the colors you could use many ways to force a number or get a peek at the chosen
number.

Resume
So many things are possible with The Multi-Force-Pad™ it’s not only adding some
extra pieces information. If you study this chapter well and mix the ideas from this
book you will be able to create some very powerful Multi-Force-Pads™

You just don’t want to miss out the fun playing with it because a demonstration with
a Multi-Force-Pad™ is a real pleasure.

The extra revelations and use of multiple spectators makes the demonstration
not only stronger and visually more attractive but also easier to do and most
importantly it will make the pads less suspicious because the audience can see
that every spectator has a completely free choice from the same pad and they all
select something different.

As with every SvenPad® demonstration, take your time to really show that every
word or category is different on every page very clearly. Also let your spectator read
some of the words and categories on different pages so there are absolutely no
doubts that every word from each category is completely different on every page of
the pad. This effect and many other SvenPad® effects depend on proving 100% clear
that every page and every item is different, otherwise the effect will immediately lose
impact.

If a SvenPad® was a weapon

the Multi-Force-Pad is a Machine Gun

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Double Sided SvenPads®
Double-Sided-SvenPad® do have some limitations and may not be the most
incredible idea in the book but I didn’t want to keep it from you because it can really
have some advantages. With a Double-Sided-SvenPad® you can have two forces in
one pad. The only thing you need to do is secretly do the Turn between the two
forces (like with the eXtreme Pad) and you can force a second piece of information or
even a second group of pieces of information like with a Multi-Force-Pad™. This way
you will not only have all extra’s from a Multi-Force-Pad™ but you can even double
the number of forces that you already have.

- And the great thing is that even if you already created some SvenPads® you
can still turn them into Double-Sided-SvenPads® very easy!

Method

In this example we will assume that you will use the classic handling where the
performer shows the pages and spectator does the force. With the classic handling
this is how you write, draw or glue the information to the pad:

1. Different items need to be all on both sides of the long pages (you could even
have the same information on both sides of each long page).

2. The Force information needs to be on both sides of the short pages.

It’s very important that you put the first force on the front sides of all short
pages and the second force on all the backs of the short pages.

You now have a great Double Sided SvenPad® that you can use twice in a row or for
repeat performances. A Double Sided SvenPad® is also very suitable to use as a
Multi-Force-Pad™. Just read the instruction in this book and it should be easy to
create your first Double Sided - Multi-Force-Pad™

Play with it and have fun with it, just remember to tip over the pad when showing all
pages are different and you will be able to use this flawless every time… TWICE!!

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Take note!

Because there is information on both the top and the bottom page when the pad is
open, people can see both the force and the different page on top. The moment the
performer shows all different pages at the beginning you need to tip the pad to the
front a little so the audience won’t see that on the page above all the force pages are
the same on every page! This is a big limitation and I would not recommend you to
perform a hand-off version but if you do, you must use The Dream Handling so the
spectator will riffle downwards when showing the different pages.

During the selection of the force page this you won’t have a problem because the
moment the spectator sees the force page it doesn’t matter what page is on the page
above it because they only see one page when they select a force page and if they
did they never see another force page.

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Pink by Christopher Taylor
By Christopher Taylor

When I was in grade one, my grandmother thought I was a pretty smart kid. Of
course she did, she was my Granny. She also thought that, for a 6 year old, my
spelling sucked and, as grandmothers are wont to do, she came up with a fun game
to help me.

We used a set of homemade flash-books; notebooks filled with different words, one
1
on each page . In the game, Granny would open one of the little notebooks to a
random page, read the word out loud and I would have to spell it. But it was not
quite that easy; she also wanted to “expand my mind”.

There were always a number of everyday small objects on the table and I did not
2
get my points unless I could associate the word with one of them . For example, if
the word was “tie”, or “long”, or “not” I could put the piece of string in her hand. The
eraser could be “bend” or “rub”. The game did help me develop my thought
processes, but in ways she could never have imagined at the start. Better spelling
was no longer important.

1
A small black notebook is displayed and shown to have a different easy-to-spell word on each
page.
2
The performer displays the contents of a keepsake box. Objects such as a rubber eraser, an old coin
and a hand-crank music-box-works can be seen.

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The game evolved into something quite remarkable and that is how we will play it
now. A participant is selected and given the little black notebook.

She is instructed to open the notebook to a random page and read it only to
herself.

Just close your eyes and hold the word in your mind, the way my Granny did, and I will
try to pick an object to associate with the word without even seeing it is. Do not think
of an object, just the word.

The performer picks up a pink-coloured eraser from among the items in the
keepsake box and considers it a moment. Deciding against it, he puts the eraser
back and picks up the music-box-works, which he places onto the participant’s open
hand.

This was always the best part. Please tell us what the word is and then open your
eyes. The participant says, “Pink”. She and the audience look skeptically at the music-
box-works in her hand and then to the eraser, which he did not choose.

The performer has apparently failed.

The performer however, smiles and places the music-works onto the top of the
keepsake box. It works by turning the crank. The participant turns the crank and,
amplified by the wooden box, the famous theme from the movie…

The Pink Panther begins to play.

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Requirements

A hand-crank driven music-box works. These are readily available in a huge

variety of tunes. The SvenPad® is prepared to force a word that can be easily
associated with the tune and one or more of the other items. See the appendix for a
couple of sources.

A SvenPad® prepared with grade-one spelling words (see the appendix for a
list).

A collection of interesting small items in an equally interesting wooden box.

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Appendix

Hand-Crank Music Movements

Sources: eBay and Amazon

http://www.themusicboxshop.co.uk/buy-mm12.htm

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Grade One Spelling Words for Pink
add cube here old soon thick west
again deal hill hint open spit thing when
apple dime other star think which
baby dirt hope pain start third white
bang doll how part stay this who
banana dress iIl pear step time will
been drop inside pen stew today wing
belt each jaw pets still took winter
best easy juice pink stir train with
bike end jump plan stone trip woman
birth fang keep play stool truck women
born fast king pretty stop trust yell
blew father know punch stove try zero
blue few lake put straw twelve zone
brag fill like ram string thank
brook first lime rang such them
brown flat live river summer then
bush fog many rope sun there
came fool mask rubber swing think
card fort meal sale table those
case fresh meet save tail tree
chair game men see take under
chat gave milk seep tale upon
chop gift mine seven tank use
clam give mix sink team used
claw going more ship tell very
clean gone mother show ten vest
cloud grass much slip tent vote
come green nail slow test wait
cool grit neat snore thank walk
corn hand never snow their want
could happy nine snug them was
crew harm nose soda then water
crow heavy now some these well

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Mental Tattoo
For Mental Tattoo you need a Tattoo-Pad™. A Tattoo-Pad™ is just what it says, a pad
filled with tattoo examples for people to choose a tattoo from exactly like in a real
tattoo shop. Like the Dr. Eamon Psychological Inkblot Test Pads™ I really think that
this is one of the most natural pads you could create.

The motivation for a pad like this is really perfect! A pad filled with tattoo examples.
What else should a tattoo artist use to show you his work?! Naturally this is not
completely true but I really think it’s very believable when you show some Tattoo-
Pads™ especially if you have a few with different styles (see my tip below).

I 100% guarantee that a Tattoo-Pad™ will look really cool but this would not be the
eXtreme SvenPad Supreme e-Book if I didn’t add some special things to it.
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‘The Which Arm Bonus’

I think it’s a really great effect and an extra kicker if you would force a tattoo and then
ask your spectator to imagine the chosen tattoo to be either on her left arm or on her
right arm (or whatever body part you prefer)…

You can use a ‘Which Hand’ method like e.g. Tequila Hustler by Mark Elsdon or Ring
of Truth by Banachek and many others to find out if the spectator has imagined the
tattoo on the left arm or on the right arm. The method is not mine to reveal here but I
guarantee you will love it. I think that most mentalist already know a method that will
work. E.g. with Tequila Hustler the spectator can secretly choose to li or tell the truth
and you only have to ask if the tattoo is on the right arm, and give the spectator the
chance to change the position one more time and ask if he did change his mind
(remember the spectator can li or tell you the truth) but you will still know the
position of the Tattoo and naturally the design the spectator secretly selected!

You can even have the spectator imagine the tattoo on other body parts like, hands,
legs, cheeks, nose and even the left or right buttock. Any two positions on a body will
work for this effect. Again the pads will look natural and the extra Which Hand bonus
will work really great but always first reveal the position of the tattoo and then the
design they have in mind. You can play it as a design duplication but there are other
ways…

Real Tattoo’s Revelations!

If you are one of the many mentalists that had some ink injected, you could use any
of your own tattoo’s for the reveal of a mental Tattoo-Pad demonstration. The only
thing you need to do is print a copy of the tattoo you wish to reveal and glue it on all
force pages of your SvenPad®

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A Multi-Force Tattoo-Pad™

If you create a tattoo Multi-Force-Pad™ you could have more than one tattoo the
force page. Just use the different Tattoo styles (see list below) for categories but only
use styles that are really different and recognizable. Also you could use colors and/or
(sub) categorize in male and female tattoos, or use special fonts and so on.

Just ask every spectator to select a tattoo from one particular category but naturally
you don’t make the use of categories too obvious. Just casually ask the spectator to
select a e.g. female tattoo (every force page will have only one female tattoo) and ask
another helper to select a Keltic tattoo and so on.

You could write the category name below every tattoo to avoid mistakes. If you
prepare your Multi-Force-Tattoo-Pad™ with six tattoo’s on each force page (three
on each side and every tattoo from a different category) you could have six people
select a tattoo from a different category but I would not use more than three people
select a tattoo from a different category.

A Multi-Force-Tattoo-Pad™ is a great pad/tool.

Make it and use it, you will love it!

Double-Sided-Tattoo-SvenPad®

If you start with the ‘Which Arm’ effect so you already know at which arm the tattoo
will be you can have a Double-Sided-SvenPad® ready to force any of the two force
tattoo’s in the pad. If she selects the right arm, you can force the tattoo that you have
on your own right arm and if she selected the left arm you force the tattoo you have
on your left arm. Just an idea:)

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Dummy-Pads™

Naturally it would look more natural if you show not one but a pile of Tattoo-Pads™
like a few with different tattoo styles. If you own more than one SvenPad® (and be
honest; Who doesn’t?!) you could temporary disguise some of you other pads!

Remember you can use this idea for other demonstrations too!!!

All you need to do is print some extra covers that you need to attach to the pads that
you already own with some repositionable glue so they also look like a Tattoo-Pad™.
Naturally you can’t really use the Dummy-Pads™ but they make it all look so many
more real and less suspicious that it’s worth the little time it takes to print some extra
covers.

Here is a list with some famous tattoo styles you could use to create a Tattoo-Pad:

- Keltic tattoos - Color Horror

- Japanese tattoos - Lettering
- Traditional tattoos - Neo-Traditional
- Realism - Surrealism
- Black and Grey - Trash Polka
- Portraiture - Polynesian
- Cartoons - Dot Work
- Illustrative - Geometric
- New School - Stick and Poke
- Biomechanical - 3D Realistic

If you want to create a false stack of tattoo pads just print your own fake front tattoo
covers that you can quickly disguise your other SvenPads® into a Tattoo-Pad™ (using
repositionable glue) and use a magicians force to select the right pad.

Not only do these pads look really great and very natural, just like the real thing, but
with the added ‘Which Arm Bonus’ bonus this can be a really great demonstration.

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Another Bonus:

A Tattoo-Pad™ is very suitable to incorporate the long number stunt as described in

the beginning of this book because it’s really natural if each tattoo design would be
numbered with a large number like: 13471897639213.

Just write this number on each force page and all different numbers on each normal
page. All you need to remember is the number 13 and keep on adding the last two
digits until you have a 13 again.

With all these ideas you could make a Tattoo-Pad™ that is the Swish Knife under the
SvenPads® a real multi tool and tattoos can tell so much about your helper....

Maybe the only problem is that you have just read too many ideas, but the serious
performer will read it again and really study his options and create his own ultimate
SvenPad® Tattoo Pad.

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PRE SHOW
I know many mentalist don’t like pre-show work, some love it others hate it but if you
plan and present it well the most amazing miracles can be done using pre-show.
Legends all over the world have used Pre-Show to get there fame. Why is it that so
many have trouble using it? I think it all has to do with the fear of being caught and
the lack of knowledge and experience on how to handle it well. Especially how to
frame it so everything fits even when people ‘talk’ afterwards.

SvenPads® are very suitable for pre-show

Pre Show - Variation 1

It’s important that you arrive on time so you can select a spectator that looks
corporative. Then you approach the spectator on a relaxed way and introduce
yourself as the entertainer for this evening. Explain that you would like to do a short
experiment later in the show and ask if she wants to help you out. Immediately
explain that there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of and that it will be very short
and easy. Guarantee her that her that you will not embarrass or fool her, but that
instead she will be the star of the show and that there is absolutely nothing to be
afraid of, that she can’t do anything wrong, that it will be very short but big fun.

This is important because many people are afraid to make mistakes and even worse
to get fooled or embarrassed when they are asked to assist in a show. Be kind and
you will have a great helper that is really willing to assist you now and later.

Explain that because you need to save some time during the show you want her to
select something nobody could know, don’t tell anyone about it and remember it.
Show her the pad and let’s assume you force a city. Explain that the pad is filled with
over a hundred cities from all over the world (even if there are only 50) and clearly
show the all different cities by riffling through the pad.

‘Bondage’
Explain you want her to have a 100% free choice!
Explain you want her to remember the selected city VERY well!
Explain that you don’t want her to write it down!
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Explain that she is not allowed to talk to anybody about it!
Explain that you want her to be the only person in the world who knows the selected
city and ask her if she understands what you mean.
The moment she answers, Yes, you know she will also confirm all these conditions
during the show. This gives you some very big advantages over the normal handling
especially when you use the correct wording later during the show.

When it’s show time you explain that you asked someone in the audience to think of
a country. Ask audience helper to stand up and say that you forgot to ask her name,
she will answer e.g. Monica and immediately you ask for an applause for Monica and
ask her to keep standing or join you on stage.

This will do two important things:

1. It will put her on the spot, so she will still be a little nervous because she still
doesn’t want to make a fool out of herself and she will be very cooperative and do
everything she can to avoid making a mistake.

2. On the other hand it proves to the audience that you both don’t know each other
at all.

Now you say:

“Monica, please answer loud and clear, Yes or No…”

“Earlier this evening I asked you to think of a place anywhere in the world, do you still
have that place in your mind?” YES!

“Did you speak or talk about this place to anyone?” NO!

“Did you have a 100% free choice?” YES!

“Did you write anything down?” NO!

“Is it correct that nobody in the world could know what city you are thinking of except
you?” YES!

“Ok, than let’s begin the demonstration…”

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Only revealing the city would not be a very strong demonstration but if you do the
same with two more spectators that are thinking of e.g. a celebrity and let’s say
‘something people do on a holyday’. Now you will have a very strong demonstration
especially if you present it well. Acting skills are required here. Take your time to do
the mindreading. This is the most important part of the demonstration. Show how
hard it is to read the spectator(s), make some mistakes and struggle a little now and
then to make it look real. Stop with one spectator as if you are having problems
reading him and come back to him later. Make a big deal out of it and it will look like
real mind reading.

Pre-Show - Variation 2

Another variation Derren Brown and many others used a lot is to not talk about the
pre-show at all during the show.

During the pre-show you explain that you want to save time during the show and that
when people are on stage they are under stress and sometimes forget what they have
in mind or just get nervous about it.

Explain that this way it won’t take too long during the show and now you can take
your time for the spectator. Also it’s much easier to remember for the spectator and
now there is no need for stress. Again explain the spectator that there is no need to
worry and that she will be the star of the show and ad she just has to relax.

Again (‘Bondage’):
Explain you want her to have a 100% free choice!
Explain you want her to remember the selected city VERY well!
Explain that you don’t want her to write anything down!
Explain that she is not allowed to talk to anybody about it!
Explain that you want her to be the only person in the world who knows the selected
city and ask her if she understands what you mean.

Before you leave you casually say;

“When I ask you to think of any city in the world, THIS is the city I want you to think
about! OK?”

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It’s very important that you have her confirm with a clear YES here (otherwise ask
again)! Then say;

“Can you remember that?!”

and again have the spectator confirm so you know she understands properly.

During the show you can now have a killer demonstration. Just ask for a helper, look
around and point to one of the spectators that you pre-showed. Invite her, shake
hands and ask for her name (as if you meet the first time) and ask for an applause.

After a short intro you say;

“Dear Monica, I now want you to think of a city in the world and really concentrate on
it as hard as you can!”

Now you talk to the audience, this is just time misdirection where you explain that
you are going to try to read her mind. After the explanation you turn back to Monica
and say some important things;

“Are you concentrating on a city?” YES! And then ask; “Did you change your mind?
NO! Again you are ready to rock the house. If she should say Yes, just ask her to
concentrate on her first thought.
The second method is more devilish and bold but at the same time the
demonstration will really look like real mindreading! You could still ask questions like,
“You had a 100% free choice?” and, “I could never know what you were thinking,
right?!” but it would be a little dangerous and it would be overkill, so why bother
when the effect is so clean already.

Maybe some of you now think; ”But hey, the spectator knows about the pre-show so
it’s not as strong for the spectator(s)?!” Well you should remember that they really
think they had a free choice, and they think you can’t know what they selected. So to
them the effect is still at least just as strong as ANY other SvenPad® demonstration!

A win-win situation, so don’t be afraid and pre-show the hell out of them!

Also complement your helper on her exceptional thought sending skills and explain
that she has a very strong mind. This way it’s very likely that they will not talk about

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that you have spoken to each other before and even if she does so, there is nothing
wrong… you just wanted to make it easier for the spectator and save time.

Pre Show can make your effects extremely powerful.

A demonstration can be 10 times stronger when you use Pre Show.

With Pre Show you can really convince people you have special skills.

Use it!

I know many pro’s did before you!

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Corporate or Trade Show Magic
Corporate and Trade Show Magic are very important to our profession. These shows
are not just parties or gatherings people go to. Corporate and Trade Show Magic are
all about PR and communication so the company can profit from it…

AND THEY PAY BIG MONEY!

All companies want to present themselves the best way they can and entertainers can
help them a lot with this. That’s why many entertainers are specialized in Corporate
and Trade Show Magic and I can recommend you to do the same. Go the extra mile
to invest in Corporate and Trade Show Magic. The moment you get hired invest again
in the company that hired you. If you take the time to adapt and make your
demonstrations fit the company you work for it will be well worth the extra time.

And what a coincidence, SvenPads® are the ultimate tools for a mentalist on a
Corporate and Trade Show Magic event. You can print and glue your own pages in
your SvenPads® and customize your SvenPads® to get the message out that fits the
company you work for.

You can home print all pages and easily change the force if you use repositionable
glue. This way you don’t have to buy a new SvenPad® for every other Name or
Company you work for but you are still able to personalize and change your
SvenPads® really fast and almost unlimited!

Examples you can use for Corporate and Trade Show Magic:

- Logo’s
- Brands
- Company Names
- Name of the director
- Name of the boss
- Personal information
- Photo’s
- And so on

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Think about all the benefits you have now you know you can easily print all pages in a
SvenPad® and with repositionable glue change them as much as you want and
whenever you want!

For Corporate and Trade Show Magic this is really important and I can’t think of a
stronger effect to bring along as a SvenPad® personalized for the company you work
for!

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Post-It’s Notes
Add some real Post-It notes on top of the Sven Notes™ to add an extra layer of
deception and use them during the demonstration! Easy to cut to the right size…

Just have some real Post-It notes on

top so the first few are real with some
notes and/or ready to use a few of the
real Post-It notes. I really like to put a
Post-It note on the forehead of the
spectators but not as a prediction. I
would stick a blanc Post-It note on
their forehead and after the force I
ask them to concentrate on the item
they now have in mind. Then read their
mind and when I think I know it (I
already do LOL) I write it on the Post-It
note so the people surrounding us can
see what I ‘think’ it is and then I ask my
Post-It noted helpers to say out loud what
they were concentrating on or what the
thought was they had in mind.

Why?

It’s funny and it’s visual two things mentalism often needs.

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Stull Watch
If you own a Stull Watch you could use it for a synchronicity effect. Just force a time
with your SvenPad® (pre-show if you like) and have the other spectator turn the stem
on a watch to set the watch to a ‘ random’ time. Thanks to the working of a Skull
Watch this will be a forced time too and with most Skull Watched you can force four
different times and if you combine this with four different SvenPads® you have four
spectators in a row or repeat it four times.

The Time you were Born

Another great idea is to use a Devil Pad to force three different times at three
different spectators and use the extra force time to read the mind of the last
spectator yourself. A subtly I like to add is ask if the remember the time that they
were born. Most of the time they don’t know that time and then I say that they
should look this up as this is the exact time this person was born. I have used this line
a lot and as bold as it may look you will be surprised with the reaction it gets.

The reactions have always surprised me. As bold as this bold statement might look, it
has always served me well and most of the time changed a small hit into a big hit and
people keep talking about, as if they are happy they really just found out the time
they were born.

Skull Watch Impromptu

If you don’t own a Skull Watch you could use a normal watch to force a time too. You
have to demonstrate how to set the time, have them turn the wheel and set the watch
to a unknown time. In reality you stop the watch at the time you would like to force
and then later have them spin at the wheel with the stem not pulled out far enough
to turn the hands of the watch.

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Rainbow
Rainbow is a really cool gimmick that uses a real photo for a very surprising reveal
and a really great souvenir.

It allows you to borrow a spectators mobile phone and make a picture of her holding
an empty black Polaroid-like photo (the Rainbow gimmick). The spectator will only
see a black photo with a white frame similar to the photos from a Fujifilm Instax Mini
8 Instant Film Camera (they look like the old Polaroids) but when the spectator looks
at their mobile phone a little later she will see that a real picture appeared in the
previously black photo that she was holding a few moments ago. This photo in the
picture is a photo of the city the spectator ‘freely’ selected from a pile of photo’s. A
really nice magic effect and best of all it leaves your helper with a really great
souvenir, a magical photo on their mobile phone. A digital picture that they can, e-
mail, post on Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter or Instagram and keep forever.

Unfortunately the original version is supplied with a very weak force with only 7
simple pictures. That’s why it´s such a great idea to use a SvenPad® for the force. This
idea was mentioned first by Videoman at the Magic Café. Thank you for sharing this
wonderful idea and thank you for letting me share it here too Videoman!!!

The idea is so important because if you use a SvenPad® with Rainbow the effect is at
least a 100 times stronger than with the poor force that originally came the effect
made by Higar and sold by SeoMagic USA a strange company…

Brett told me he called Seomagic but unfortunately they never called back. Later I
contacted them by e-mail about 8 times during a few months, but they never replied.
I send them a preview copy of the e-book and offered a free promotion but no
reaction. I also offered to make some professional pictures too if they send me a
sample) and I really thought they would appreciate a free promotion but I never
received a reaction.

I think this is really strange and it makes me wonder what they would do if a
customer has a problem.

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Fortunately I think not much can go wrong with these gimmicks but I do think it’s
weird if people do not react to an e-mail, especially 8 long e-mails that where all
written with only the best intentions!

I wanted to order a complete set for ($106,85 plus $46,00 for shipping to the
Netherlands) but I decided not to order a set for two resins. First, I do like it but it’s a
little too magical for me and I only perform Pure Mentalism and second, well you can
guess…

I’m 100% convinced that they have sold many Rainbow gimmicks to SvenPad® users
in the past few months and 95% of these thanks to a few posts at the Magic Café and
the SvenPad® Facebook-Group that keeps growing and growing. Maybe they don’t
even realize how strong this combo is and how many SvenPad® users there are.

For all SvenPad® users that want to add Rainbow to their repertoire I want to share
my eXtreme demonstration and tips. First the pros and cons of Rainbow.

Pros:
- Packs small, Plays big
- Very visual magic effect
- All done on a borrowed phone
- No app needed
- Instant reset
- End with a great photo souvenir on the spectators phone

Cons:
- Gimmicks and shipping costs are very expensive
- Not angel proof (people can see the picture the moment the camera flashes)
- Only two force photos available: New York and Egypt (and two playing cards)
- Using the effect with a SvenPad® and playing cards is weaker
- More a magic effect then mentalism
- Contact with the seller

OK here we go…

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Rainbow eXtreme!
The use of a SvenPad® already makes Rainbow so much stronger but if we add some
subtleties and changes the demonstration could be really eXtreme!

Preparation
For this you also need a Rainbow photo gimmick (New York or Egypt) and a blanc
photo gimmick that you can order extra for $5,00 (I recommend to always order the
black ungimmicked photo if you order Rainbow). Start by writing your name on the
white border on the bottom of the Rainbow photo and copy this exactly on the blanc
duplicate. Make sure you write exactly the same on both photos so you have an 100%
exact copy!! You don’t need to write your name for the effect to work, but it’s good
advertising because with eXtreme Rainbow the spectator will keep a picture OF BOTH
PHOTOS as a souvenir on their phone. That’s why you should really write your name
on the photos (also see tip on how to write at the end). You also need an envelope
that is at least an inch larger than the Rainbow photos. Put the blanc photo inside the
envelop and put a large paperclip on the flap of the envelope. Put the Rainbow photo
gimmick (face outwards) on the back of the envelop (the side without the flap) and
attached under the paperclip. Put this packet in your pocket or on the table (photo
hidden under the envelope) and you are ready to go.

The Experiment!
Approach a pretty looking lady acting as if you see an angel. Ask if she has her mobile
phone with her and explain that you would really really like to try an experiment
with digital thought transition. Explain that this is something completely new for
you and that there is a chance it won’t work but it won’t take long, but if it DOES
work… it will be worth every second and something she will never forget for the rest
of her life!

Explain that during this experiment everything depends on how strong she can
concentrate her energy but immediately tell her not to worry, that you specially
selected her specially and that if there was one person in the room that can do this, it
would be her! Explain that you could see her aura from miles away, feel the positive
energy and that she is surrounded with the most amazing and beautiful set of colors
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able to focus and control this energy together with you, she can do really powerful
things…
Explain that in a moment you will take a picture of her holding an undeveloped
Polaroid and that positioning her and the photo is very important for all the needed
energy.

Important:

Because you don’t want the other people to see the Rainbow photo or the screen of
the phone during the second flash you must position the spectator carefully and wise.
You have a good reasoning to take your time positioning your helper and all people
surrounding her if needed because you must avoid any interference of energy
whatsoever. So study the location well and position your helper in a way you can take
her picture so nobody can see the gimmick or the screen the moment you take the
picture(s). Most of the time the best way is to position your helper is in front of the
rest of the audience. Other times you just need to take your helper to another place
but I really believe that if you are a little creative you can position your spectator and,
if needed, the rest of the audience in a way that nobody can see the photo or the
screen the moment you take the picture.

Now without flashing the hidden second photo on the back of the envelope, you
open the envelope and openly take out the blanc photo. When you open the
envelope, fold the flap back over the hidden second photo and quickly show there is
nothing left inside the envelop. Close the flap again and put the paperclip back on
the envelope and the hidden Rainbow photo on the back. Put the envelope under
your left arm (photo to body) and hand the blanc photo to your helper.

What you do now is extremely important: The moment you have positioned all
people you must make very clear to all people NOT TO MOVE AN INCH UNTIL YOU
SAY SO! Ask all people to stare at the back of her head and send positive energy. The
lady will act as a conductor of all this energy and she will be charged with positive
energy needed for the experiment.

It’s best to have the spectator in the middle, holding the photo with two hands, only
with the tips of her thumbs and forefingers on the bottom corners of the photo all
positioned so everything is mirrored from the middle.

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The moment everything is in position ask them to concentrate and again them not to
move until you say so. Now take your first picture but immediately tell them to
absolutely not move an inch until you are 100% sure the photo is good. Look at the
photo and ask how you can delete this photo but keep attention to all people and tell
them not to move. It will only take about twenty seconds and the dirty work is done
but keep them in the same position as much as you can because it’s best to have two
identical photos (one with the blanc photo showing only black and one with the
gimmicked photo showing Egypt or New York). So far you have one photo and
pretend to delete it. Show the screen that says ‘Delete’ - Yes or No. Pretend to press
‘Yes’ but secretly press ‘No’ or ‘Cancel’ and keep it (this is picture 1)!

Now with the mobile phone in you right hand take the envelope from under your left
arm and put it under the phone. Look at the spectator as if you need to move her just
a little bit and put the packet in you left hand (from bottom to top: envelop, Rainbow
photo and the phone on top but facing you so nobody can see if the Rainbow
gimmick sticks out a little). Keep telling the people not to move an inch and keep
staring at the back of her head sending positive energy. Now for a short moment you
take the blanc photo from the spectator and put it under the envelop (spectator side)
and slip it under the large paperclip. Than move her half an inch and tell her to keep
smiling and immediately take the envelope with the two photos in the right hand and
while lowering the envelop a little you bring the photo to the top with the Rainbow
gimmick. Hand her ‘back’ the photo that is now on top (the Rainbow gimmick) and
make the second picture from the same position, duplicating the first picture as much
as possible!

- It looks like a lot of work in text but in performance this all goes very fast and you
are now ready to hit them really hard!

From now on you stop telling them not to move but you do ask them to keep
sending positive energy to the spectators head and keep playing your role. You can
put the envelope (with the blanc photo underneath) on the table or back under your
arm and show the first picture on the phone to your helper and the audience. To
avoid people to notice any difference if somebody has moved or changed position
between the two photos you should immediately zoom into the photo and focus on
the black undeveloped photo the spectator is holding.

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Nobody will see anything weird: the spectator is clearly holding a BLACK
UNDEVELOPED PHOTO in her hands! It’s important that enough people see this
photo before you continue!

The moment you have showed the photo to enough people you turn around and
explain that it’s now her turn and use all the energy in a very special way. Look at the
photo one more time, show it one more time and immediately say that you will lock
the phone… but instead you erase the first picture and put the phone on the table!

Now take back the Rainbow gimmick from the spectator and put it on top of the
envelope again under the big paperclip ready for the last switch.

Introduce your SvenPad® and force a picture you used for the experiment. Ask your
helper not to show or tell anybody what city she selected and ask her to hold onto
the phone concentrating.

This is a really great moment to switch your SvenPad® for a duplicate ungimmicked
SvenPad® just to punish the wiser later!!!

Now the rest of the demonstration will be so much fun!!!

Ask the spectator to stand on the same location where she was holding the photo
and ask her to hold onto the phone like she was holding the black photo and ask her
to imagine the picture of the destination only she has in her mind and project this on
the picture that she was holding just a moment ago.

Now act as if you are both in a trance, tell her you feel all the positive energy and that
you can see all beautiful colors surrounding her. Tell her to concentrate on the colors.
Tell her to close her eyes for a moment and to make the colors really bright and vivid
and use the energy and colors to create a picture of the place in her mind. Take your
time here and encourage the spectator by saying she can do it and that she must
believe in her power. Don’t be afraid to ask the audience to send some more positive
energy and make a showpiece of it.

If you are happy show a very big and happy dreaming smile and very slowly, almost in
a slow motion you say that you have a very good feeling and that you never seen so
many beautiful colors surrounding a person and that you never felt like this before

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and that you have the feeling that chances are high that your experiment with digital
thought transition worked really well!

Slowly ask your spectator to unlock her phone and look at the picture you took a few
moments ago…

SHE WILL SCREAM!!!!

And you will have tears in your eyes when you see the result!

All spectators will go wild. The phone will go from one spectator to another. All
people will want to see the photo!!! And you will be the talk of the night!!!

During this moment you have all the time in the world to clean up the envelope with
the photos, but leave the blanc gimmick behind for examination (the blanc photo is
under the envelop and the Rainbow gimmick is on top). You can do a few things now.
You could secretly steal the photo on top and ditch or pocket it and leave the
envelope with the blanc photo on the table. Or you could take the envelope with
both photos and just turn your hand again when you pretend to put it in your pocket
or when you turn your body. Steal the Rainbow photo or keep the Rainbow photo
under the envelop and put it with the envelop in your pocket. No matter what always
leave the blanc photo on the table! This is very important as you will read later.

You have now hit them hard and all attention will be at the mobile phone with the
amazing picture. Naturally you act just as amazed and go really wild and emotional.
Really play along and your actions will be invisible. Also ask the spectator to please
send you the photo and or put it on Facebook a.s.a.p. and share it with as many
people she can.

Let them take another Picture!!!

You are now left with the banc gimmick on the table and you can have the spectator
take another picture if they want or even better you take another similar picture (but
not the same position) to show the blanc black photo too. Also other people can take
pictures from the blanc photo… I bet many will.

A great souvenir with a great story.

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How to write your name

Remember that your name or whatever you write on the gimmicked photo and copy
on the duplicate must be 100% the same with some mistakes or deviation because
they can compare these photos later because you allow them to make a picture from
the blanc photo at the end… and I really recommend you to do that.

You have to make a mistake in your writing or something that you corrected, or
something weird in your writing like the first letter of your name with double strokes
or a slip of the pen or a little ink stain it doesn’t matter. Anything that stands out is
important and will act as a convincer that the duplicate they see later really is the
same. Naturally you must copy it exactly on the other photo but you can do it before
the show. A really strong convincer that I think is important.

Very subtle example:

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Tips and Ideas

This is a fun demonstration mixed with some serious instructions because you need
to manage your audience well! Keep your instructions serious but doing it must be
fun. Make a big deal of positioning the spectator and the audience, and remember,
it’s all about the energy flow. It doesn’t matter if you need to move a table, or put the
spectator on a chair with her hands in the air. Put aluminum foil around the head of a
man that is interrupting the energy, or cover the spectators feet or arms and if you
really want to make it a show stopper wind aluminum foil over her body from her
armpits to her legs… again everything for the positive energy. Have fun with it, there
is many room for improvisation as long as you stick to the basic handlings as
described and you will have a visual, funny piece of unbelievable mental magic.

Remember that the real power of this experiment is that everything is extremely
visual and funny. From positioning all people to the enigmatic photo at the end. All
very visual and so much fun! The effect is a little more magic than mental and that’s
why I wrote an eXtreme presentation for it so it suits the ending… fun, magical and
most of all unbelievable.

BTW Always call it an experiment, not a demonstration and especially not an effect or
even worse a trick! Act as this is something new for you too and I promise you will
have miracle, an eXtreme miracle… Rainbow eXtreme!

The Instax Mini Camera

On Amazon you can buy a Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 Instant Film Camera for about $55,00
available in different colors. The films are about $12,50 for 20 White (there are other
models available that use the same size Instax Mini Film). With these cameras you can
take a picture and the photo will come out after 5 seconds, after that it will take about
5 minutes before it’s completely done. Very slowly and magically you will see the
photo appear like in the old days with the Polaroids that we all remember, and even
in this age with so much technology surrounding us people still keep looking
fascinated at the appearing photo because it’s still magical and attractive to most
people. The photo quality is not bad but not very good either but you can keep the
photos for a very long time and they are a really nice souvenir. If you own a camera
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the show and use this in the effect, but I would still switch it for a blanc photo that
really has the name exactly like the gimmicked duplicate, or don’t write anything on it
(what I would not recommend).

The Instax Mini Printer

What I like even more is the wireless mini printer the Fujifilm INSTAX SHARE SP-1 and
the new SP-2 that sell for $149,00 and $199,00. These printer you can connect with
your smartphone and wireless print any photo you have on your phone! The printers
are very small and battery operated (they use 2 CR2) so you can print from your
pocket if you really want. I can see lots of magical and especially mental applications
with these printers and (depending on your mobile phone) photo quality is better
with most new mobile phones than the ´cheap´ Instax cameras.

Instax Mini Film

Don’t forget to buy enough film with your camera or printer. It will cost about $12,50
for a 20 pack, that’s about $0,65 for each photo.

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Another idea by Brett Barry
Brett Barry showed me he took 3 or 4 pictures with the Instax Mini Camera from his
daughter. With his hand he covered the lens to make some black photos and after
developing the result was an exact copy of the blanc Rainbow gimmicks ($0,65 is a lot
cheaper than buying them for $5,00 from Seomagic, an amount you can immediately
deduct from the price you pay for your camera).

In short Brett’s idea was to invite 3 or 4 spectators for an experiment and have one
spectator mix all the black photos and hand one to every spectator in the group. Brett
marked the Rainbow gimmick by cutting of a piece of the upper left corner so he
could easily see who received the gimmicked photo. He would than force the correct
destination to only the spectator that was holding the Rainbow gimmick and make a
picture of the group or each person individually with a spectators phone.

Remark
With this marking there could be a very small chance that people later look at the
photo and see that a small piece was cut off from the corner of the photo with the
image, so I would write my name on each photo and remember a natural marking
from within the name or any other subtle marking will do.

So here you have it, a load of ideas and extra’s to create your own eXtreme Rainbow
miracles…

Use eXtreme Rainbow and have fun!

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HypnoPad™
HypnoPad™ will be another killer SvenPad® variation that is easy to make and will hit
them hard.

As I wrote before you will have a much stronger effect if you add extra information.
Like a time, a price, a serial number, a name, a title, a question or any of the other
examples I previously described.

Remember that if all different pages have only one word on each, your audience will
assume that your spectator helper will also see only one of these words. If your force
page has extra information you can really make use of this information (that is only
known to you and the spectator) but what if we change some things here…

Imagine you could have your spectator concentrate on a special scene or place. To
help your spectator you say that you have a pad with a different place or scene on
every page to trigger their imagination (again you just bluff here and say there are
100 pages with 100 different scenes, a small lie that will immediately double the
power of the effect). You could write any scene you can imagine but here is a list with
some examples you can use:

BEACH
CIRCUS
PARIS
MOON
SEX
LAS VEGAS
CLUB
FOOTBALL STADIUM
BOAT
THEATRE
CHRISTMAS
RESTAURANT
CASINO

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ZOO
MOVIE
CAR
DISCO
LONDON
MAGICIAN
HOME
MADONNA
DISNEYLAND
DANCING
CINEMA
PHOTO STUDIO
PSYCHIC
PARK
FUN
MUSEUM
GARDEN
FAIR
PARTY

Write the words clear and as large as possible on the different pages and when you
show them to the audience you add a few words to it, like ‘BEACH’ just add “At the…”
in front of it, so it will become “At the beach” or with the word FUN, you say “A scene
where you are having fun…”, or “On the boat”, “In a restaurant” , “On the moon”, “With
a magician” and so on.

This is important because we have some beautiful and safe dual-reality going on here
soon.

Force the imagination

Start by using some fake hypnosis, act as if you induce some trance and have your
spectator close her eyes for a few moments. During this time you explain that your
helper will now be able to use her imagination at least 100 times stronger and that
not only her imagination will be 100 times stronger but also the psychic connection
and her ability to send her thoughts to you. Act as if you induce some more powers
to her by waving your hands around her ‘aura’ and after a good deal of hypnotic
mumbo jumbo you click with your fingers and ask her to open her eyes again…

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Explain that she will feel very good and energetic and that she will still feel the trance.
Ask her to sit (or stand) still without speaking. Ask her to just stare right in front of
her and keep focused on the trance. Tell her that she will enjoy this great feeling that
she is feeling now even more in a moment.

Now you clearly show the pad to the audience and comment on every word you show
like I explained above, “At the beach, on a boat, in a restaurant” and so on. You
clearly show that there is another scene or place on every page but it’s very important
that you don’t show any of these pages to your spectator helper that is now staring
and feeling really good.

You should even add extra information now like when you show the word CASINO,
you can say: “When you imagine yourself in this scene you could imagine you see the
slot machines for real, imagine you hear the sounds of the slot machines, the roulette
table and all the people in the casino that are dressed well and naturally the large pile
of money in front of you”

During the time you say this you point with your finger to the word casino. Your
spectator that can’t see the word casino will see that you are pointing at the page as
if you point to the slot-machines, roulette tables, the people and the money… Why?

The Real Secret

The secret to the HypnoPad™ is that on every page is a word, exactly as described
above here but every force page is a picture! A photo with very clear details that will
not only force a scene or place but also many other details depending on the photo
you use for this eXtreme mind reading experiment.

With a cleverly constructed HypnoPad™ with different words and photos on all force
pages you will have the perfect tool to read the mind of your spectator helper that is
still staring with a big smile. Ask her to select any page and deeply concentrate on
this scene. Ask her to keep staring at the page and focus and remember every detail
she sees in this scene.

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Example:

Let’s assume the force picture is a photo of a FOOTBALL STADIUM. Now take a large
writing pad or whiteboard and start asking questions, like: “Please concentrate on this
scene”

“Can you imagine that you are at this place with your boyfriend” Answer: “Yes!”

“OK I can see him next to you, is that correct?” Answer: “Yes!”

“I think this is a very large place but there is something weird… it’s completely silent,
isn’t it!”

Now take the pad and openly write the word: SAND
(show it to the audience but not to the spectator helper)

and ask her: “Can you please tell me what you see in the middle of this scene”

Example photo, you could write or print the word STADIUM or FOOTBALL STADIUM on the photo.

As you can see in this example she saw a football stadium but at the moment there is
no grass on the floor but sand and there is a yellow excavator and two green tractors.
Also there are red seats and on the other side you can see the letters PSV in the seats.

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The colors are red and white, there are no people in the stadium except the spectator
and her boyfriend….

You can use all this info to create an amazing presentation.

After you openly write SAND you can ask her what she sees in the middle of the
scene she can see in her mind. She will probably answer SAND.

Take your applause and wipe away the word SAND and ask the spectator to
concentrate on the scene and ask:

“Do you see cars in your scene?”

She will doubt a little and you correct it as if you read her mind in real time and say
that it is not a normal car but something like an excavator and a tractor. The moment
she wants to comply with yes, you immediately ask her to concentrate on the colors
and now you write YELLOW + GREEN in very large letters on the board and show it to
the audience but again not to your helper. Ask her if she can see the colors bright and
vivid and when she says yes, ask her to name the colors out loud. She will answer
yellow and green and again take your applause and wipe the board clean.

Now ask her if it’s correct that there are chairs, many chairs (she will confirm). Ask her
to concentrate on the color of the chairs and after a moment of concentration you
write the word RED. Ask for the color, show her what you wrote and take your
applause.

Than you could ask her if she wants to concentrate on what she sees ‘at the other
side’. Act as if you want to write something on the board but then you stop and say:

“It is outside but not in the streets?! “

She will confirm and immediately you say:

“Aha, it’s a public square or… no, eh no it’s a stadium, a large sport stadium, like a
football stadium? “

She will answer “Yes” and then you say:

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“Please keep looking at your scene and imagine it as clear as you can and imagine
that you are really there!”

“The stadium Is completely empty…”

She will say “Yes” and you ask her to concentrate on what she sees more and you say:

“Is it correct that in your mind you see a word or letters on the other side?”

Ask her to concentrate on it and write the letters PSV, and so on.

Real Mind Reading

This can easily be another five or ten ahead effect depending on how you structure it
and what kind of photo you use. It Is eXtremely strong because it will look like real
mindreading.

1. Every time you write your thoughts first and openly for all spectators to see!
2. Every time you ask where the spectator helper is concentrating on after you
wrote down your thoughts.
3. Every step will look like Real Mind Reading.

Important tip…

Write the word describing the force-scene (in previous example STADIUM or
FOOTBALL STADIUM) on one of the non-force pages and cut that page short on the
sides like with a Devil Pad™. This way you can take the pad from your spectator
helper at the end, close it and quickly open it at the side-short-cut force page to
casually show the word describing the force page scene. Just another convincer to
make it impossible to backtrack, but very strong!

Use your imagination… and use your HypnoPad! It will not only make you a perfect
Mind Reader, but also a Hypnotist if you play your game well. You can test if the
spectator is susceptible for hypnosis and maybe you can use this and build on that
like I wrote before.

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With the HypnoPad™ you have almost unlimited possibilities. If you have a photo of a
romantic restaurant with a picture of a famous person on the wall like Lady Gaga,
Pavarotti or Madonna (let Photoshop be your friend), with white wallpaper with blue
clouds, a red table cloth, two candles, wooden chairs, a brown dog in the corner and
so on. Or a picture of a beach and you see many people but they don’t have clothes
on… also they are not completely naked. There are two red beds but there are no bed
sheets. You see a tree… a palm tree and sand... Aha, now you see the sea and say this
must be on the beach, but you let the spectator concentrate again and write down
more details, every time before your spectator helpers say a thing!!! And you can
provide even more details, like a log, children playing, a boy and a girl, boy wearing
green and the girl pink and white. You see a grey boat and at the other side a Ferris
wheel and so on… and so on. With the clever SvimPressionPad or eXtreme Thief or
any of the other SvenPad® impression devices that you will find later in this book you
could even add the name of the girl’s boyfriend that was next to her in the football
stadium.

Just choose your pictures wisely and at least make two HypnoPads™ you will not
regret it!

Look at some pictures and pay attention to special details, then act as if it’s difficult.
Make a few mistakes and never immediately just reveal what you see… Study the
previous example, use the tips and your HypnoPad™ will be a real killer mental
experiment…

My advice:

Make a few HypnoPads™, go out there and hit them hard!

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The Sexy Pad™
Another way to fill a SvenPad® is to create a Sexy Pad…
I remember that when I was young I had so much fun with
the old ‘Every Inch a Lady’ and to be honest I still do.

’ every Inch a Lady ‘

Copyright by Houdini Magic Las Vegas

Most magicians will remember this old packet trick where the performer gets the
beauty card with a beautiful lady but when the spectator tries he gets a very funny
surprise. You can still buy it at Houdini Magic in Las Vegas who own the rights to

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this effect and I can highly recommend doing so! At this moment it is not on their
website but if you send them an email you they can send it to you. They informed me
it’s still available! It’s one of the most funny packet tricks you can buy [Adults Only].
With Every inch a Lady you are always ready for a very funny demonstration…

The spectator thinks he will end up with the old lady instead of a beautiful girl.

Copyright by Houdini Magic Las Vegas

But his final and free selection will be a BIG SURPRISE!

SvenPads® are very well suited for similar kind of experiments and the Sexy Pad is a
great example that is very easy to make.

By using SvenPads® instead of the original trick cards you will have some big
advantages:

1) You can use more beauties (more pictures to choose from)

2) You will have a much cleaner force
3) You can use much bigger pictures (and larger audience)
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Who doesn’t want to create a SvenPad® filled with beautiful girls? Fortunately you
only have to do this once and when you use a Universal SvenPad® (explained in the
next chapter) you could use one SvenPad® for many other effects too.

Handling:
I do suggest that you adapt your presentation a little to make it even more deceptive.
Even though the handling is very similar the instructions need to be clearer than ever
and very much emphasize that your helper does have a free choice. During this you
confuse him a little by asking weird questions like;

“Is it possible to fall backwards when you walk forwards?”

Immediately followed by

“Are you a person that wants more when you already have enough?” “Please clear
your mind… not so fast”

“Did you know that selecting a pretty lady without looking and completely at random
can say much about you?”

“Please try to imagine a pretty lady… blond, black, brown or red it doesn’t matter”

“Did you know that the kind of lady you select can tell more about you than any tarot
card or palm reader in the world?!”

Smile and say:

”Imagine a beautiful lady and look at me…” [Short pause and in a loud voice say:]

“Please select a page NOW! But don’t look yet!!!”

Ask the spectator to put his finger between the pages but not look and ask him to
one more time think of his dream girl and ask him to open the pad and look at the
picture.

Naturally you can present it any way you want. The selection of a really ugly,
eXtremely fat or very funny lady will always get some good laughs.

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Naturally this kind of experiments is not suited for every audience so please select
your audience and helpers well!

Take your time to create a great looking Sexy Pad, you will have fun with it for many
years and if you really want to make it a short but strong and funny mini act you can
combine it with the Ugly Pad demonstration as described in Force First at page 212.

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Unfortunately I can’t publish the pictures I use in my own Sexy Pads. The photo on
the previous page is a photo I took in Ibiza and used just as an example of a funny
photo.

Naturally you can find plenty of good looking pin-up girls and to find a good photo
you can use for the force is a little more difficult but with a little help from Google
you can find what you want. Always use real Photo Paper! If you print on real Photo
Paper you will get amazing results. Your prints will be much clearer and easier to read
too.

I personally really like this picture: CLICK HERE

If you Google ‘old lady with cigar’ you will see many similar beauties.

When this picture is forced and shown at the end you could throw in the line:

“Aha this picture tells me you like naughty girls”

“you don’t mind if they have run a few extra miles”

“and like them to use some colorful accessories…”

“and most important they must have an fetish for big cigars…”

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The Universal SvenPad!
The Universal SvenPad is also the most simple force pad you could make
and at the same time it´s the Swiss Army Knife of SvenPads, a real One Pad Fits All!

A simple Number Force Pad that you can use in many ways and for many different
and very visual demonstrations. Please keep reading!

Let’s use our last SvenPad® idea the Sexy Pad as an example. The moment your
helper selects a photo, normally they just open at the selected page and immediately
see the forced picture of the (in this example) ugly lady.

Imagine you want to have three people each select a lady and you want them all to
pick the only three ugly ladies. You could use The Devil Pad and riffle-force two from
the extra short cut sides and after that hand out the pad to the third spectator to
force the third lady completely hands-off.
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But if you use three Number SvenPads® that all force a different number you could
have a large plie of photos or even better a large row of photos, and if you want a
stage filled with photos…

The only thing you need to do is write a different number on the back of every photo
and put all the photos backwards on a stand or display with only the numbers
showing to the audience. After your spectators helpers have all ‘freely’ and ‘in the
most honest way possible’ (haha I love these SvenPads®) selected a number you
could ask them to take the selected number from the row but without looking and
ask them to keep it close to their body and absolutely not look before you ask them
to. Now you can turn around all other photos of great looking and/or sexy ladies
(depending on the photos you choose for this demonstration). Give a few readings
during the process of turning photos around and showing them. You could say things
like:

“If you selected this pretty lady it would tell me that you like fast cars and you love
colors” and with another photo you say: “and if fate had you select this sexy lady it
would tell me you really enjoy life to the fullest and take your time to get the absolute
max out of things…

No matter what you say, at the end you will have a great reveal when your three
helpers see that the photo they selected were the only ugly, funny, old or crazy lady-
pictures from the many many beautiful girls.

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The real benefits of a USP™
If you use a Universal SvenPad® or even better a set of three (like me) you have
some very big advantages over using a normal SvenPad®. Here are the most
important benefits in a row:

1) You can use much larger text or very large photos

- This is a very big advantage because now it can be visually many more
attractive and theatrical. That’s why the Universal SvenPads® are very suitable
to use on a large stage. You could use very large and clear (laminated) photos
(that will last for very long) or even super big oil paintings in a big frame and
make it a real show piece.

2) You can use many more photos (or less if you want).

3) You can showcase the photos in the most beautiful way.

4) You can make as many different photo sets as you want; Sexy Ladies, Ugly
Ladies, Sexy Men, Ugly Men and as many photo sets you want all using the
same Universal SvenPad® (set). I wanted to give the readers maximum value
and when you use Universal SvenPads®. You don’t need to create a new
SvenPad® for every demonstration. Naturally this doesn’t mean you never
need other SvenPads®. I think every serious performer should own a set of
Universal SvenPads® for these special effects that need large photos or items
and for the rest we will always keep using normal SvenPads

5) Automatically disconnect when you put the pads away and move to photos or
objects!

6) It’s really easy to switch your pads for Ungimmicked Copies!!!

7) And this is the most important benefit of using a Universal SvenPad® (set)!
You can use one pad to force anything you can imagine!!!

USP HAS NO LIMITS!!!

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Some examples:

Fear Factor
What if you fill a table with cloches on plates and have a spectator freely select a
number with one of your Universal SvenPads®. You can hide any surprise you can
think of as long as it fits on the plates…

Invite a spectator and ask for his wallet or something valuable like a picture, a drivers
licence or a large denomination bill. Let’s imagine he hands you $50,00

Now you ask;

“Please concentrate, it is very important that you clear your mind and look at me
sir!...”

Look in his eyes and click your fingers in front of his eyes as if you put him into a
trance and ask:

“Did I just give you $50,00 or did you give me $50,00?”

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About 99% of the time he will answer, “I just gave you $50,00 “ and if he does you
immediately say:

“OK thank you I really appreciate that but I want to give you an honest chance to win
it back!”

And immediately you put the money aside but somewhere where it is still visible and
explain that you both are going to play a game for the money…

“Have you ever seen the TV show Fear Factor?”

Explain that you are going to test his courage and that he will only have to eat the
delicious food from only one plate. Hand him a Universal SvenPad® and explain that
you don’t want him to make a conscious decision but a random decision so that he is
not influenced in any way or form. Show the pad and all the numbers and have him
make his selection in the most honest way possible! Use the Safety Handling and give
him a chance to change his mind a few times and let go of a few more pages if he
wants and when he has made his final selection he can look at it and show it to
everybody in the room.

“Aha you selected number six… let’s first have a look at what you didn’t select!”

Explain that the ‘contestant’ must eat what’s on the chosen plate and that he or she
will be the ultimate Fear Factor champ after completing that task and for that he will
win the $50,00 he just gave you at the beginning.

Set-up: You could put the most discusting things to eat on these plates like dog
food, a raw liver, a pig ear, a spider, a cow eye, the balls of a bull, some worms, a
few cockroaches and so on and a piece of pie or some candy on the force plate.

Now first show all other plates that have the most disgusting things on it, building up
the tension and with some jokes wile you show all the disgusting things he didn’t
select you build up the drama and you end showing an innocent piece of candy and
your helper will eat it with a big relief wile you hand him his prize together with an
‘original’ Fear Factor Certificate calling him a big sport and the amazing winner of
Fear Factor Two Thousand…[that year] and ask for a big applause for your spectator
helper and finish your demonstration..

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You could turn it around and change the presentation and only have tasty things on
the non-force boards and something disgusting on the force-boards but now you
exaggerate that they have to eat everything that is on the selected plate and show
the first plate has a big bag of M&M’s and the second plate has 3 Twix, another plate
has 4 Kit-Kat, and another 3 Snickers and so on. If you play it well the spectator will
probably say that he can do it but when he sees the surprise at the end he will change
his mind very fast… depending on what you put on the force plate.

So remember that you can make it your own and change whatever you like because
the possibilities using a Universal SvenPad® are only limited by your imagination.

And you don’t have to limit yourself to food.

You can use anything that fits on the plates!

Don’t let Fear

Be a Factor!

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How to create a real showpiece!
The ideas in the row below are priceless if you want to really create a showpiece using
only a Universal Force Pad™ and a set of any of the items from the list below.

Do you want to create something visually attractive and add drama to your show!?

Imagine a large row of Ring Boxes on the table or many Big Chests on a large stage.
You can take any number of any of the items below to create something really great
looking like cloches on the plates!

Match-Boxes on a mini table or Cardboard Boxes packet in plastic glitter foil on a

large stage. It will not only look amazing but it will add some drama too.

Here are all the things you can use like in previous example with the cloches on the
plates but all these items will look amazing in a demonstration.

I could easily fill a small book with examples and beautiful pictures of how it would
look and what you could put in these boxes like, drinks, food, money, personal items,
photos, jewelry, borrowed objects, small animals, people, strange object, memorabilia,
souvenirs, cards, poison, perfumes, clothing, shoes, games, prices, recipes, books,
posters and anything you can think of that fits in some:

- Upside down thimbleful

- Matchboxes
- Envelopes
- Upside down plates
- Upside down cups
- Ring Boxes

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- Purses
- Bags
- Cardboard Boxes
- Chests
- Packages
- Chairs
- People
- Animals
- Tables
- Rooms
- Cars
- Houses (and use the door numbers!)
- Streets
- Countries

And every planet in the universe… how Universal is that?

With your Universal Force Pad™ you can rock any house and any stage! Don´t let
yourself put down by the ‘easy’ method. Remember it’s not about the method but
about the effect!

Oz Pearlman really ‘killed’ his audience with an amazing performance on national

TV more than once! He is a very experienced pro and he would never use an effect
for such a large TV-show if it wasn’t a killer effect.

And now you can take it to the next level…

Combine the ideas from this book and make your own killer effects!
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How many numbers should you use
to create your own Universal Set?!

How many numbers you like to use is up to you but I have 3 Universal SvenPads®
that each force a deferent number. My numbers are 7, 12 and 23 and I use sets with
up to 25 photos but I could use a set of 50 ore even more and still force 7, 12 and 23.
I could also use a full deck of cards and have the spectators count to the forced
numbers and because you know what cards will be selected you can play it in many
ways.

With this set I have the benefit that I can use 3 people in one demonstration but I can
also work with only 2 or just 1 if I want. I can also use as many or s less photos as I
want, this all depends on the kind of demonstration I do.

Naturally you can decide how many numbers, colors or symbols you want in your set.
10, 15, 20, 25, 50 or even 100 the sky is the limit…

The number 7-Force

I used the number 7 in my set. As most of you know number 7 is a psychological

Force. If you ask for a number between one and ten like three, most of the time the
answer will be 7 (if you miss you can do a short reading and continue).

Instead of asking to say the number you first use a fake trance and ask you helper to
travel to the feature and try to imagine he is in the feature looking in an empty note
pad. Now ask him to imagine a number between 1 and 10 like 3 and have him write
down that number. Now secretly try to get a peek of it otherwise just look at it. If you
can peek it secretly and you see it’s number 7 you have a hit and you can use this pad
for the Synchronicity Effect. Hand the Universal Pad that will force number 7 to your
second helper and clearly show every page has another number and have him select
a number in the most clean way.

Naturally he will force the number 7 on himself.

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Don’t forget this…

Always have an Ungimmicked Copy with you when you perform with your
Universal SvenPads®! I know many of you will order some extra SvenPads® soon
after reading this to create your own set of Universal SvenPads®, but just don’t
forget to order some Ungimmicked SvenPads® too!!!

You can really kill every last non-believer when you leave them with an Ungimmicked
Copy.

Remember you can use your Universal SvenPads® for almost unlimited effects and
for many many years!!!

It feels so good if it happens that they want to see that Pad one more time and you
have switched it. Creating a Universal Set without ungimmicked copies would be a
mistake! Especially because there is no better opportunity to switch the pads then
with a Universal SvenPad® demonstration because there is so much distraction and
so much time that you can easily switch your pads ten times if you want to.

Just do it… and thank me later.

The Universal Devils Pad

And always make a Devils Pad from every Universal SvenPad you own! Do it without
any fear. You can still use it as ‘normal’ but you will always have two extra forces for
each pad if. The only thing that is important is how you handle the pad during the
first two forces and the third is the perfect convincer and with all distraction that will
follow immediately after the selection you are very safe. Just be eXtremely clear with
the last hands-off force! People will easily forget how the other selections went
especially when you immediately follow with effects like Sexy Pad , Fear Factor or
any of the examples I will give you now…

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Mental Taste
Throughout the years I always had a fascination for Taste Effects were a spectator
has to taste some food or drinks and the mentalist who is unable to see what the
spectator selected can get the same taste in his mouth and very accurate describe
what the spectator was eating or drinking.

Over the years I have seen many variations with food and drinks. Many heavily
gimmicked, with or without electronics. Some used helpers and others mathematical
or other complicated principles.

The Universal SvenPad® is the key to these effects!

You can put a row of drinks on a large table or on a bar and force one, two or three
drinks on one, two or three spectators. You could hand out up to three SvenPads®
but I have performed this with three ladies and a Triple Bank SvenPad® and it was a
big success. I forced milk, Stroh-rum 80% and a nice Bacardi Cola mix drink (they only
had to taste just a little). I wanted one normal, one disgusting and one nice alcoholic
drink. To the first I commented it must be something she hadn’t had for a long time,
the second I acted as if I tasted something really disgusting and with the last I got a
big smile and told her that this was something she really liked and that she wanted to
drink it all and so on. Again presentation is everything and you should never just call
out the answers, act as if you are slowly tasting what they are tasting and take your
time, make some mistakes and act as if you are having a hard time doing so, even
though it’s so easy thanks to your Universal Triple Bank SvenPads®

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eXtreme Russian Roulette!
WARNING!

Only perform at your own risk!!!

Another easy to do but very dangerous pack small and play big demonstration is the
eXtreme Russian Roulette that’s not just limited to three or four cups but ten, twenty
or more cups if you like. I love the display a lot of cups on the floor and then smash
ten with your bare feet like Derren Brown did in one of his specials a few years ago.

Imagine how it will look if you put 25 cups on the floor, on a stage or in a room and
you have clearly numbered every cup with a number from 1 to 25. For this example
we will use a Universal SvenPad® with force-number 23.

Again you explain that because you want the spectator helper to select the number
unconscious in a way she can’t be influenced by you and show him or her the
pad and force the number 23 in the most fair way possible.

You now hand your helper a pin or spike on a block of wood and ask him or her to
put it under the cup with the same number the he or she just so freely selected and
that now exists only in his or her mind!

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It’s best to have helper (e.g. a friend or your wife) that acts as if she coincidental
helps you with another spectator from the audience to keep a large black curtain in
front of the cups the moment the first spectator puts the pin under the (forced)
number. Your (wife or friend) helper is clearly instructed to look if the pin is placed
under the right cup (cup number 23). This is another safety guard you need to use
and the moment your helper is not 100% sure or when the pin is not under the forced
number your helper can sign you immediately and if everything went perfect he or
she can leave the room or go back to his or her seat.

It all happens when you are not looking but with a helper as an extra safety in case
the spectator makes a mistake. When it’s time you ask this spectator to concentrate
on his number and the cup with the pin…

Now in the most dramatic way possible you remove your shoes and socks and
barefoot you slowly begin to stamp on the cups and smash them one by one with
your barefoot. And in the middle of the demonstration you even jump on a few of the
cups, smashing them one after another until only a few are left.

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You keep concentrating as if you are reading the mental directions that are
unconsciously provided by your spectator helper. You are trying really hard, you
sweat and your tensed and you (can) ask another spectator to come and assist you
when you only have about 5 cups left. You act as if you induce some trance to her
and say:

“Trust me you are 100% safe now and you will not get hurt!”

“And I have 100% trust in YOU and I know that YOU can do it…”

“Please call out loud any number of the cups that are still left on the floor… NOW!!”

When the frightened lady names her number two things can happen:

A. She will call out a the number of a cup that doesn’t have the pin under it.
or
B. She will call the number of the cup with the pin.
(in this example cup number 23).

A. 80% of the time she will name the number of a safe cup. Now you thank her and
smash that cup with your foot. But you could have her take of her shoe and stamp on
the selected cup to add more drama (but be careful you don’t want too much drama
here when things go wrong). This kind of effects have gone wrong many times and
can only be performed by adult trained and professional magicians!!!

(Please read all safety instructions below and make sure that you are 100%
positive that the pin is under cup 23!!! This is a very dangerous demonstration
and again it can only be performed by an adult and trained professional
magician!!! And you can only perform this at your own risk!)

B. 20% of the time she will name the number that really has the pin and then you ask
her immediately if she is 100% sure. When she answers with; “Yes!” you immediately
say; “Okay, I told you that I would trust you… Your intuition told you that this is the
dangerous pin” pointing to cup 23 the number the number she just named. You will
now surprise all spectators by stamping 3 cups while saying: “That means that THIS,

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THIS and THIS cup should be safe!!!” and the three times you say the word ‘THIS’ you
smash a cup with your feet with a lot of drama

You are now left with only two cups, you take the spectator that just called the correct
number by her hand, you concentrate peed. Act as if you change your mind but
smash the last cup and leave cup number 23 for inspection, take your applause, thank
your helpers and end your demonstration.

DO NOT PERFORM!

Naturally this kind of demonstration is never really foolproof as long as you use a real
pin! Even though you know that the spectator selected number 23. There is always a
chance that he does not put the knife under the correct cup and maybe one time in a
thousand year a spectator does not handle the pad well and selects another number.
If they execute your instructions correctly you the SvenPad® should always work but
you never know if you have a fool that opens the pad on the long side or puts the pin
under another cup number and maybe even wants to play a dangerous mind game
with you.

Remember everything can happen! The only way to perform this crazy stunt is when
you are:

1. 100% sure that the pin is put under cup number 23.
2. 100% sure that your secret helper (your wife or good friend) checked that the
spectator has put the pin under the correct cup (in this example cup 23).

You should always have an extra secret helper in the audience that can signal you
when something goes wrong and the pin or sharp item is not under cup number 23.

Do NOT perform this trick if you are under 18!

Do NOT perform this trick if you have any doubts!

Do NOT perform this trick if you are not a trained professional magician!

Do NOT perform this trick without two helpers that can double check everything!

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The Safe Version
Naturally you can have the same presentation with all the drama and nice display of
all the cups if you use a less dangerous object to put under the (forced) cup.

Really great but less dangerous options are to have them put an Egg under the cup
or something breakable like a Watch, your Phone or something similar.

With these options you don’t need to remove your shoes (naturally you still can) and
also there is no danger to really get hurt badly (in the worst case scenario you only
have to buy another Phone…)

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Force First!
In most demonstrations you will show that every page is empty first and then have
your spectator ‘freely’ select a (force) page but you can also turn it around and start
with a force and then later show that all other options where something totally
different.

Again let’s use our last SvenPad® idea The Sexy Pad as an example. The spectator
selects a picture of a beautiful lady in the most honest way possible. You talk about
this extremely good looking selection and even give a reading of what this means.
Nobody will be overwelmd until you clearly show that the rest of the pages are filled
with pictures of ugly, fat, crazy or crazy looking ladies… and Ugly pad! To Force First
is a completely different approach and a great way to use your SvenPads® in some
special demonstrations.

There are many situations you could Force First and have the surprise later when you
show all pages are completely different and not even close to what they expected.

Use your imagination and there are many other ideas to think of like ‘kiss me’ on the
force page and ‘Kill Me’, ‘Hit Me’ and so on, on all other pages.

Again use your imagination and you will see that it really is a great way to present
your SvenPad® demonstrations the other way around.

Let’s have a look at another great example where it’s better to Force First…

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The Ugly Pad
This would not be the eXtreme e-book if there would not be an eXtreme version of
the Sexy Pad. What we will now call The Ugly Pad is a really great pad to combine
with a Sexy Pad and create a small act when you invite two helpers to assist. Start
with the Sexy Pad demonstration as described earlier (you show a pad filled with
Sexy Girls but the spectator will select the only Ugly, Fat or Funny lady in the book)
and after that you turn to your second helper and act as if you induce some hypnotic
powers very fast and in a funny way to your second helper.

After that I would point to the pad on the table and ask him to take it and put it on
his left hand. Then give him a clear message:

“Don’t pick the ugly lady!”

Emphasize that he is not allowed to look at more than one page. Have him riffle up as
many times he wants (using the Safety Handling) and tell him he can change his
mind or go a few pages further. But the moment he makes his final choice and stops
it really is final and after that he can’t change his mind again!
During this process repeat:

“Don’t pick the ugly lady!!!” a few times.

Now the fun starts… let helper two look at his selection and to his surprise he will find
he selected a very beautiful and sexy lady! Act as if something went wrong for a
moment to help emphasize the idea something went wrong and slowly say: “Wow
that really is a beautiful lady…” and very slowly take the pad from his hands and also
slowly start smiling… and smile more and more looking at helper two and then
looking to the audience and again to the helper and say: “I told you not to pick the
ugly lady”… and now repeat this showing that on every page of this pad is an ugly
lady and that one is even more ugly and or funny then the other.

Now you can end the demonstration by saying that using only a little hypnosis was
enough to create a wonderful and amazing experiment.

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- Using the Force First can be extremely strong.

- This is a very funny mentalism demonstration.

- This is a very visual mentalism demonstration.

- Some extra audience management is needed especially when two different

pads are on the table. Nothing to be afraid of but just be careful and put the
first pad out of reach when you are done with it and continue with helper two.

- To switch these pads for ungimmicked duplicates would really kill them and it
will be big fun for your audience to look at these pages… and I bet they will!

Funny and visual mentalism is very rare… cherish this idea.

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The LøK-Pad™
For a very long time I have created my own Svengali Pads but I was never able to
make such a reliable high quality pad as Brett’s SvenPads®. I never found the right
thickness of the papers and I was never able to cut the pages in a way that it was
invisible for the naked eye but still working perfectly and it was a crime to make them.

That’s why I have been experimenting with a Svengali Pad without shortcut pages.
I can hear you thinking now;

“A Svengali Pad without short cut pages?!”

Yes, without shortcut pages. It was because I was tired of all the long and precise
work of cutting every other page I experimented with folding all pages long and
short.

That was when I invented what I now call: The LøK-Pad™

I folded back the first page to the second line (from the top) and then I folded back
the second page exactly on the first line and repeated this all over the pad to create
long and short-folded pages. You could also fold a smaller part like about a third and
count the lines and always fold the second page one line above the line you used on
the previous page. It was when I received the first KøD Pads™ and saw the lined
pages which reminded me of the folding idea again. I tested it and again it worked
flawless. The KøD Pads™ really are perfect for this especially if you use the eXtreme
KøD Handling explained later in this book!

You really need the thicker lined pages to easily fold the pages and create a perfect
Løck-Pad™.

I soon discovered that The LøK-Pad™ has some other nice advantages. Because all
pages where folded you couldn’t see what was written inside the folded pages even
when you opened this pad the normal way. The writings, drawings, stamps, stickers or
any other fillings are locked between the folds. That’s was why I call it The LøK-Pad™!

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A Løck-Pad™ is very simple and really easy to create.

Fold to the top line of your KøD Pad, fold then to the next page to the second line of
your KøD Pad, then fold to the next page to the top line of your KøD Pad and again
the next page to the second line of your KøD Pad and so on. The first and second
lines are your guide to make all pages the perfect size.

Adapted handlings:

I exchanged the force pages and normal pages so the force was now on the long
folded pages and the non-force items where now on the short folded pages. This
way I could lift up to any pages quickly, open it and show that every page was empty
reasonably fast. This was important because you need to show at least five or ten
different pages to convince your audience that all pages are different. The advantage
was that you could put the pad on the table and have a spectator open it at any, open
the fold, look at what was on the page and repeat this as many times as they want (I
recommend five to ten times) to proof that really every page is different. It’s a really
very fair way to show all pages are different. After all spectators are convinced that
all pages are different you can force the force page using the Dream Handling or the
eXtreme Dream Handling later in this book to let the spectator select a force page in
the most clean way possible.

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Another benefit is that you can also hand out the Løck-Pad™ for inspection. Most
people will automatically put the pad on the left open hand and riffle with the right
hand just like in the classic handling.

Tip 2
You can completely remove the cover but I prefer to cut it short to match the size of
the folded pages. Also cut the back the same size as the rest. Thanks to the materials
that Brett so carefully selected will the pad be very easy to handle and last long.

Tip 3
The extra thick pages of the original KøD Pads™ are outstanding for this. Just take
care that you make the folds very firm and precise and maybe even put something
heavy on the folds for a night so they will almost automatically close during a
performance.

Tip 4
If you maintain your LøK-Pads™ with care and every now and then put some weight
on the folds you can use them for a very long time.

Tip 5
Only use original KøD Pads™, or the new KøD Stage Size Pads or KøD Parapads to
guarantee you have a perfect LøK-Pad™ that will work flawless every performance!

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(The Ultimate Spiral Handling)

We are almost at the end of this book and I would love to finish big. At least the
eXtreme KøD Handling is something really special. A very eXtreme handling that
also is the most Hands-Off and completely automatic handling in this book. It’s also
the most theatrical and visual handling of a SvenPad® ever performed.

It’s a real showpiece especially if you go all the way using four spectators to present
the Ultimate Hands-Off presentation. Remember that we are entertainers and that
most of the time mentalism isn’t very visual and that it can be boring too. That’s why
the presentation is so important and why we always have to do everything we can to
make mentalism more visual and entertaining.

Preparation

For this demonstration I prefer to write the force on the long pages and the non-
force on the short pages. This way I can hang the pad on a wire with the cover facing
the audience (and the Inspector) and the back facing the other spectator helper
standing behind the pin or wire (the Gambler).

Note: If you have already set-up your SvenPad® the normal way you have to hang
the pad with the back to the audience. For the rest everything is the same.

With the eXtreme KøD Handling you will have a very visual performance that is very
easy to make entertaining, mysterious and funny…

Now let the fun begin and invite:

a Gambler
a Judge
and two Guards

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The Real-Time set-up:

Invite two spectators on stage to keep the KøD Pad™ in the air with a rope. They are
the Guards! You put a rope trough the spiral of the KøD Pad™ and have each guard
hold onto to one end of the rope and keep it firm in their hands and high in the air,
standing about 2 to 3 meters (6 to 9 feet) apart from each other with the KøD Pad™
hanging in the middle of the rope (front side facing to the audience).

Now put another spectator in front of the pad, this spectator is the Judge! And last
but not least put a fourth spectator behind the pad and the rope, this spectator I
usually call the Gambler (or the Actor or the Player) or something similar, just pick
what you like best.

Example:

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Explain that you want some eXtreme test Conditions! Now that you have everything
set you explain that you have set this up to guarantee the most honest and foolproof
experiment possible. Explain that you have two guards, one at each end of the rope
that will take care that nobody (especially you) can mess with the pad. Ask the guards
to look at the audience carefully and never let go of the end until you say so.

Turn to the Gambler and explain that he will have to select a word, drawing or
whatever you want to use for this demonstration later (you could even use this
presentation with a Universal Pad™) and that he has to keep a poker face after he
has done so. Now you have everything set-up and explained ask the Inspector (the
person that’s in front of the pad) to open the pad with his right hand and let him use
his thumb to see and show to the audience that every page is different. This is the
beauty of this set-up: As long as the Inspector is in front of the pad he will always lift
up the long pages and always show the non-force pages (again if you want the front
of the pad facing the audience you need to write the force on all the long pages and
the different items on the short pages or if you already made a pad the classic way
you can hang the pad with the back facing the audience).

With these Ultimate Test Conditions the Inspector can check and show to the
audience that all pages are different, like this:

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As soon as the Inspector has proven all pages are different you can ask the Gambler
to open the pad to any page from the KøD Pad™ and thanks to this amazing set-up
The Gambler will always select a force page!

With the eXtreme KøD Handling you can perform your SvenPad® effects 100%
hands-off in the most honest way possible and completely surrounded under
eXtreme Test Conditions and If you want you can do it all while you are far away or
even sitting in the audience!!!

In contrast to most effects this hands-off handling will make it look more impossible
to the audience and at the same time eXtremely easy to perform.

It is the eXtreme KøD Handling that makes your SvenPad KøD a real entertainer!

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Tip 1 - One Man Effect!

You can also use a very long pin (or as I did in the pictures above here, use a antenna)
and stick it in the spiral of the KøD Pad™ this way you can hold the pin in your hands
and perform it the same way for just one person if you want.

Tip 2 - Upside Down

Write big and clear or make a clear drawing because the Gambler will see the word or
drawing upside down. This is not a problem, rather the opposite because if you
position the Guards correctly and don’t keep the wire (or pin) too high you can give
the Gambler the option to let go of a few more pages if you want. Only be careful
that you he or she does not flash some force items to the audience. You could
prevent this to write only in the middle of the force pages and not on the sides, of
you could cover the pad in real time by standing in front of it for a moment.

Tip 3 - Blindfold

You could have a fifth helper on stage (the Judge) to act as your blindfold. She can
stand behind you and cover your eyes with her hand when the page is selected by the
Gambler.

Tip 4 - How to use any SvenPad®

If you use a strong clip you could also do the eXtreme KøD Handling with any other
SvenPads®. Just put the strong clip on top of the pad and put the rope (or long pin)
between the clip and the top of your SvenPad® of choice and you will be able to do
the eXtreme KøD Handling with every pad you want. If you can’t find a clip that is
wide enough just use two small clips.

If you are a professional entertainer,

a real showman, like Oz Pearlman, then you must use this.

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(eXtreme) Sing a Song 2
In my previous book The eXtreme teleFoto e-Book I have a demonstration called
‘Sing a Song’ Thanks to teleFoto you always know what song was selected. It was
inspired by the very funny and clever Chester Sass that create one of my favorite
routines “Music was my first love” from his book ‘120% Chestosteron’. A book I
highly recommend and a demonstration that I have performed countless times with
so much fun for layman and magicians alike!

With teleFoto they have a completely free choice and you always know what music is
selected, but you have no control what song it will be. With “Music was my first
love” you know beforehand what song it will be thanks to the very clever and easy
method but the spectator can only choose between 8 or 9 songs max.

If you use a SvenPad® it looks like they can select 50 songs or more (again; you can
just say your pad has 100 pages!) and you still control the song they will select.

You can play it out in many ways. Some examples are:

1. You can have a song selected and ask the spectator to push the play button
on your cd or mp3 player or the remote and to hear that the selected song
starts to play.

2. You can have a song selected and show you have a picture of that record in an
envelope.

3. You can even announce a big surprise and have the artist come on stage and
sing his song.

But they are all predictions and I don’t like predictions. Predictions are over the top
and most of the time immediately give away the method or at least that the method
must be some kind of trickery and when you take your time to read someone’s mind
it just looks more real and some will believe there must be something special about
you. Something that will never happen when you predict impossible things.

That is why I prefer another option:

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 4. You let the spectator sing the song in his mind...
And slowly the performer will start to sing along with the spectator that
doesn’t make a sound and what’s most surprising is that the performer is
exactly in sync with the sound that the spectator is only singing in his mind.

The real power…

You will start reading her mind and tap in at exactly the same time, on the same
phrase, singing the same line she is singing perfectly in sync! To do this, ask her to
start singing after you have count to three. After the three count, you know she will
start and you do to. Because you are singing the same song you will be very close.
BUT to ensure that you are exactly in the groove with your helper, you start to hum
some parts of the rhythm quietly! The spectator helper will immediately, and without
being aware of it, take over your rhythm and start to follow your lead (even though
the audience will not recognize the song yet, your spectator helper will). A few
moments later you start humming more clearly and when you start singing the song
you will be in perfect sync with the spectator…

and you will love her reaction!

Bonus

This really is one of my favorite effects and I can only imagine what would happen if
Chester Sass’s “Music was my first love” would marry with ‘Sing a Song 2’. The
result would be 100 times stronger because you can have about 10 different songs at
every page! This way you will have about 500 songs (50 pages times 10 songs) and if
you bluff (you should) than you could say you have a pad with 100 pages and it will
look like you have 1000 different songs!!!

Not only you have more songs to choose from but the fact that you have nine or ten
songs at each page will make the effect much stronger and impossible because even
if the performer would know what page was selected, how could he possibly know
what song was selected from the nine or ten that were on that page.
Unfortunately this secret is not mine to reveal but I can tell you that it is one of the
most devilish ideas I have ever read. Just buy ‘120% Chestosteron’ and Chester will
not have any problem if you also use it to create eXtreme Sing a Song 2!

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eXtreme: COLOR MATCH
Color Match is an amazing mentalism effect created by Craig Filicetti from ProMystic.
ProMystic produces leading edge technology for mentalism and magic. Like Labco
they produce state of the art and 100% reliable electronics for the working Pro and
both provide eXtreme customer service! I really mean it when I say they have the best
customer service in the world. Both Craig Filicetti’s (ProMystic) and Soren Harbo’s
(Labco) customer service is really amazing and they are without any doubt my two
favorite pro magic dealers.

One of the many amazing effects from ProMystic is Color Match. Color Match utilizes
Promystic’s MagTag technology. Some ingenious and very small electronics inform
you what item is moved. Most of the time it’s used in a set of markers but you can
use it in many items and for many different effects!
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One effect that is really entertaining with a very funny surprise ending is the variation
where the spectator can take any color marker and color in a piece of clothing from a
pre-drawn puppet.

The spectator can take any color and the result could be something like this:

The killer surprise ending is the moment when the magician starts to strip, slowly
revealing what he is wearing under his clothes. To the surprise of the audience the
magician is wearing exactly the same clothes as the puppet and as if a miracle
happened even the colors match exactly like in the freely colored picture!

CLICK HERE for a performance video from Justin Willman's on Ellen

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The Idea…

Normally you hand the spectator a drawing to fill in the colors but now you can hand
the spectator a pad filled with 50 or 100 (with a little bluff) completely different
drawings! To make this Color-Book-SvenPad® you must glue a drawing on every
page of a normal SvenPad®. Use removable glue and only put some removable glue
on the top at the back of each drawing (like Post-It Notes!).

The orange line is where you put some removable glue on the back of the drawings:

This way the spectator can easily remove the chosen drawing and re-glue it on top of
the pad to fill in the colors during the next stage of the effect. This way you can reset
the pad very fast. You just have to replace one drawing and you are ready to go
again.

The spectator can openly show the freely chosen drawing when it’s put on top of the
pad… and when you are ready for the reveal, you say:

“Don’t you think it’s a little weird that the drawing you selected from over one
hundred different drawings, is a drawing that looks like me?!?!”

“You could have picked a boot, a car, a house, an airplane, a tree, a church, a bridge,
an island in the sun, a beautiful little bird, a cat, a dog, a giraffe or ANY of the other
hundred drawings but you selected a drawing THAT LOOKS LIKE ME!!!
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Act a little as if this is a poor tadaaa moment and even ask your helper to show the
drawing that is now on top of the SvenPad® to the rest of the audience. You can
even take the pad from your helper and show all different drawings one more time, to
enhance that the spectator really had a free choice!

As soon as your helper and the audience stop laughing you slowly start with the big
reveal. You can chose to show a prediction first (like Justin did in the video) but the
moment you start stripping you repeat that the drawing really looks like you!

A killer effect with an extra layer of unbelievable mentalism when you incorporate a
Color-Book-Sven-Pad™. It will not only make the effect stronger but it will also
distract from the used methods because different methods are now in play and they
both amplify each other.

A Color-Match-SvenPad® is really easy to create (Google can help if you search for
color book drawings and line drawings) and it’s a great addition to an already great
effect but now the spectator also has a free choice of a very large number of
completely different drawings!

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Four O’clock
What if every force page was different too?

I remember that I was discussing ShowPad™ with Leon Heussen a Dutch magician. He
didn’t have a clue how it could be done but when he was guessing for the method he
had a very good idea.

The idea that you could have 10 different logo’s on the selected (force) page was a
challenge to him.

Even though there are so many different logo’s on the selected page the mentalist is
still able to immediately tell what logo was selected… and all without asking a
question and nothing written down. Leon asked me if the mentalist was able to see it
by the direction they turn or keep the pad. Not a bad idea and even thought it had
nothing to do with the method used in ShowPad™ it got me thinking.

You could use this to have three or four different force pages and see what they
selected by the way they hold the pad.

You just have to look at how they keep it when you ask them to concentrate on the
selected page.

1) Is the cover on top they selected force-page one

2) Is the cover on the right they selected force-page two
3) Is the cover on bottom they selected force-page three
4) Is the cover on the left they selected force-page four

It’s just a simple idea but you can definitely use it!

Like in the next example…

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Truth or Dare
On the internet you can find many examples of Truth or Dares.

CLICK HERE for a website filled with Truth or Dares. (Warning this site contains adult
language)

They even have them categorized:

- Truth or Dare for New Couples

- Dirty and Sexy Truth or Dare Questions
- Truth or Dare Questions for Married Couples
- Truth or Dare Questions for Kids
- Truth or Dare Questions for College Students
- Truth or Dare Questions for Family Game Night
- Truth or Dare Questions for Teens
- Truth or Dare Questions for Adults

There are hundreds of questions and with a SvenPad® you can control the outcome.

So if you want to play a game of Truth or Dare select your Questions and Missions
wisely. If you use the Four O’clock system and color your Truth and Dares each in
another color, you can have four different Truths and Four different Dares.

And if you combine the Four O’clock system with a Devil Pad™ you can also force two
other pages. You just look away and riffle like a stop-force. This way you can force
two Truths or Dares extra!

Combining ideas from this book is

the real power of this book!

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Rain Man
I’m a very big fan of the ‘Rain Man effect’. I own or have owned almost every
electronic impression device in the world and I think these James Bond devices are
the ultimate and most versatile tools a mentalist can own and I think that if I would
ask a mentalist that owns one of these miracle devices, what his favorite mentalism
tool is that most mentalist will say the electronic impression device (probably the
Mind-Buster) and I would have to agree but if the question was ‘with what apparatus
or effect did you get the strongest reaction?’ my answer would be after performing
E.S.P. by Labco. I have ‘killed’ with revealing the most secret and personal information,
a secret love, a pin-code, predicting the lotto and so on but I received some of the
strongest reactions after performing the Rain Man effect with E.S.P.

People keep talking about it and they all think it’s real. They really believe I can count
94 coins in half a second after a spectator slapped me in the face a few times. This is
not only demonstrating incredible mental powers but also very entertaining. E.S.P. has
my highest recommendation and if you have the money for it don’t wait and get one,
it will be one of the best purchases a mentalist can ever do.

And to think that I waited almost two years to order my own E.S.P. I could slap myself
that I didn’t buy it sooner after I saw the reaction I received from my first E.S.P. Rain
Man performance. I bought a second one that I never needed because it always
works perfect.

After demonstrating my Pin-Code SvenPad®, that gets amazing reaction too, I was
wondering ‘what if’ I could remember all the numbers. And even though it would be
easy to do (using the Pin-Code-Killer system) I found it would be even more
impressive if I could create a Rain-Man effect.

The idea was born and the basic idea was easy; a force page with fixed amount of
dots, ants, mini coins or whatever you like to use or draw on it. Let’s say you draw 63
ants on the force page, you can look at it for a second and announce the total. This
would be very easy to do but it would be missing something. The Rain-Man effect is
one of these demonstrations that gets 5 times stronger if you are able to repeat it at
least one more time. So I developed a very easy system so you can repeat it with
another outcome to make a demonstration really strong…

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Multiply by 3

Let’s assume for this example we just use large ants. For a repeat performance I
decided to use six different force-pages instead of one. The numbers I use are 26, 39,
42, 55, 68 and 71 ants on a page.

With this super easy system you always know the number of ants on the page in two
seconds and you only have to look at the page for half a second.

In your mind you have 6 blocks at the sides of every page, let’s call it zones 2 to 7.

The imaginary zones:

If you fill in the pages take care the ants are always at least half an inch away from the
sides with the exception of one stubborn ant that is found to be a little more to the
side. This way there is only one ant in one of the zones. This ant will code you the
total amount of ants on this page. To calculate the number is super easy, just multiply
the zone number by three and put this number behind the zone number. If you get a
two digit number after multiplying the zone number by three only use the last
number.
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Zone 2) multiply 2 by 3 this is 6 now we just put the 6 behind the 2 and this makes 26.
Zone 3) 3 x 3 = 9 now put 9 behind the zone number, this makes 39
Zone 4) 3 x 4=12 we only use the last digit number 2, this makes 42
And so on, so we have 26, 39, 42, 55, 68 and 71 like you can see in the picture below.

In the next example you can immediately see that there are 26 ants on the page. The
only ant in an imaginary zone is in zone 2, again multiply by 3 = 6 so the number of
ants on this page is 26.

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Here the ant is in zone 3 and this will tell you there are 39 ants on this page.

Now let’s practice on a few pages with only ants on it. Remember we don’t have a
zone 1. Write down your three answers and you will find the correct answers after the
third exercise:

Exercise 1

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Exercise 3

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Exercise 1 = 68 ANTS, Exercise 2 = 39 ANTS and Exercise 3 = 71 ANTS

With this super easy code you have 6 different force pages and with 6 different force
pages the chances are high that another number will be selected the second time. To
be exactly the chance that the assisting spectator will select another number is
83.34% and only 16,66% change that they get a page with the same number of ants
but if this would happen it’s no problem because you can easily solve this.

For this 16.66% you have a few easy options:

A) Just say: “Hey, you picked the same page again. Please select another page…”

B) You start concentrating but after a second you act as if you realize you made a
big mistake, slap yourself to the head and explain that you forgot to erase the
other ants in your mind from the previous demonstration. You now act as if
you erase it and you let your helper select a new page to keep it all fair!

C) Ask an ambiguous question: “Would you like to let go one or two more
pages…?” If they react and let go one or two more, you say: “Okay that’s fine,
you want to make it difficult for me. No problem!” and you can continue. If
they don’t just ask them again and add that you want to make it more difficult.

D) Blame the situation. Just blame anything you can improvise at that moment or
act as if something that is interfering like; “Oh please keep the pad higher in
the air so I don’t have to look into the light” or “Please keep it to the left (or
whatever direction), I can’t concentrate when there is a busy background, I’m
sorry” or anything you can think of to use as an excuse for you to have and
keep this high level of concentration necessary the demonstrate this amazing
power.

E) Or as described in ‘Some More Pain’ below (my favorite method)…

No matter what option you use, it will be credible if you act and present it well and it
will also be natural that if such a situation occurs that you ask your helper to select
another page or even better let go of one or two pages to make it as fair as possible!

Remember they think that every page has another amount of ants.
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First of all, most of the time I only repeat it once. This way you don’t get smacked in
the face too much and you have definitely presented enough proof of your amazing
skills. The slapping and the idea that pain makes this possible is what I believe really
sells the effect and it doesn’t matter if the spectator can slap you in the face or inflict
some pain in any other way, it’s extremely interesting and amusing to watch. It was
Derren Brown that inspired me to use some fake torture apparatus in my own Rain
Man presentation. In his theater show ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ you can
see an great presentation of his version of a Rain Man demonstration. The idea to
have a spectator slap you in the face to get you into some kind of trance or energetic
state is absolutely fabulous. It does not only add humor and drama to the
presentation but it makes it highly entertaining and interesting as well.

CLICK HERE to see the Derren Brown video.

Some More Pain

Audience management is very important and in the beginning I gave very precise
instructions about how they should handle the pad. I explained that the spectator was
not allowed to close the pad until every ant (or whatever was used) was counted and
the effect was completely finished! I thought this was very important until one time it
happened to me that after I was slapped a few times I looked at the selected page for
a second and immediately after I got my ‘half second’ glimpse I turned my head away
and said “YES, I GOT IT!” and in a reflex the spectator holding the pad suggested she
was ready and closed the pad. Now I could not prove anything so I just had to do it
again. I didn’t want this to happen, my experience told me this would take the flow
out of the demonstration, and in a way it did but I was slapped really hard and I
played out that moment where I realized I had to be slapped again. This was very
funny for the people to see, they were really laughing out loud. This was so funny that
ever since that moment I only hope they would close the pad the second time and if
they don’t, I found a way to create that moment by making a mistake myself. In the
heat of the moment, immediately after I have peeked the information, I ‘accidently’
take the pad from the spectator. I close it but immediately act as if I realize that I
completely messed up. It will give the same big fun effect and as a bonus it can be
used as an excuse to start again when they selected the same page (16.66%).

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When I first saw Derren Brown perform Rain Man I noticed that the buttons he used
had many different colors. I immediately asked myself ‘what if I could also know how
many buttons there are from each color?!’ this would enormously increase the power
of your demonstration…

In the picture above I can immediately see there are 84 dots. After the audience and
spectator counted the dots I can also tell that there are exactly 14 Blue, 28 Green, 12
Pink, 16 Yellow, 8 Orange and 6 Red dots on this page. To understand and perform
eXtreme Rain Man you must first read and understand Rain Man.
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Unfortunately it was impossible even with the expensive electronics that I love so
much but with a SvenPad® I saw a chance.

Naturally we can create a simple force page with a predetermined number of colors
and just remember these numbers but as I wrote in Rain Man the effect will be at
least 5 times stronger if you are able to repeat it at least once. That was exactly why I
developed the system used with Rain Man.

So I challenged myself to come up with a method or system that could do the same
as Rain Man but with different colors and still be able to know exactly how many of
each color I saw! And I wanted to do this without having to look any longer than with
Rain Man!

Rain Man is very easy to do and I also wanted eXtreme Rain Man to be as easy as
possible. It took me some time and I tried many ways and calculations that didn’t
work but I finally came up with something that was easy and works like a charm. It’s
not as easy as previous Rain Man because it will need a little more calculations but I
think it’s still easy to do and it will make the effect much stronger and amazing!

Method

To calculate the total number for eXtreme Rain Man is exactly the same as with Rain
Man but if you want you can add an extra color. For easy of explanation I will explain
how to implement an extra color after explaining the basic system. You will need to
do some calculations but it’s easy. First we can calculate 4 or 5 colors depending on
the total. Again we use 26, 39, 42, 55, 68 and 71 and only the two lowest numbers
will get 4 colors and all other numbers get 5 colors (plus the extra color you can
choose to use and add later). The calculation is easy the only thing we need to
memorize is the order of the colors we use.

Mnemonic
If you have already memorized a color order for another trick (like Color Match) you
can also use that order but this is the order I use:

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- Orange One large Orange orange
- Red A Red heart has two round curves on top
- Blue A Blue boy (with three big buttons)
- Green A Green apple (with four seeds in it)
- Pink A Pink baby girl (the last in the row)
- Yellow - (no mnemonic needed)

You can easily change the colors and adapt it to your likings. Another great way to
remember the order of the colors is to pile up some things that have corresponding
colors. Like this:

In your mind, imagine yourself balancing everything on your head! Start with an
Orange, put a Red heart on top. Now put a Blue boy op top with a Green apple on his
head. On top of the apple put a little Pink girl. Do it and you will never forget it!

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Starting Number (SN)
If I refer to ´the starting number´ I mean the total we calculated from the zone
number like in Rain Man. The total can only be 26, 39, 42, 55, 68 or 71.

The Calculations

Color 1 and 2 - Orange and Red

The total is always a two digit number. The only thing you have to do is to switch
these two digits to know how many orange and how many red dots there are on the
selected page. So the second digit tells you how many orange dots you have and the
first number tells you the amount of red dots.

Example:
- The total of Zone 4 is 42 so we have 2 Orange and 4 Red dots.
- The total of Zone 7 is 71 so we have 1 Orange and 7 Red dots.

Color 3 - Blue
To calculate how many Blue dots there are on the selected page you only have to
sum up the first two digits.

Example:
- 42 makes 6
- 71 makes 8

Color 4 Green
To calculate the green dots you just have to double the last number.
- 6 becomes 12
- 8 becomes 16

There are two exceptions:

26 and 39 are too low so you must double the last digit (that you calculated for blue)
and subtract the outcome from the starting number (26 or 39).

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Color 5 Pink

26 and 39 don’t have pink dots so they are ready and the other four colors can be
easily calculated.

Double the last digit (the result for green) and subtract the result from the starting
number.

Example:
- 12 x 2 = 24 the original number was 42 - 24 = 18 pink dots
- 16 x 2 = 32 the original number was 71 - 32 = 39 pink dots

Don’t worry
If you read it like this it will look impossible to remember but I promise you it’s much
easier than it looks. 71 minus 32 is the most difficult calculation you will ever need to
do to calculate a color and you will probably automatically remember that 39 is the
answer to that one difficult calculation.

You have all the time in the world to calculate the correct number. Remember you are
demonstrating eXtreme mental powers here and you can take your time to internally
study the mental picture you just made in your mind!

If this was the real deal it would also take some time, so act as if it’s very difficult and
really do take your time. This will only add drama to the show and will make it more
believable. And even if you should make a mistake, it doesn’t matter, it will only make
it more believable if you are off by one or even if you are off by ten.

So… be happy!

Before I explain the 6th color Yellow I would like to make it all more clear and much
easier to understand with a diagram showing all possible result in a row.

This way you can see how easy it is.

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eXtreme Rain Man Diagram

Total Orange Red Blue Green Pink

26 6 2 8 10 -

39 9 3 12 15 -

Original Reverse Add Double last

Number Original Up and Subtract
- - - from Original

42 2 4 6 12 18

55 5 5 10 20 15

68 8 6 14 28 12

71 1 7 8 16 39

Original Reverse Add Double Double last

Number Original Up Up and Subtract
- - - - from Original

This diagram makes it very easy to understand the system. Especially if you practice a
few times. With the tips in red in the diagram you will see that in a very short time
that you can calculate the numbers almost automatically.

29 and 39: Reverse - Add Up - Double and Subtract

Other numbers: Reverse - Add Up - Double - Double and Subtract

On the next few pages I will show you some examples to practice a few times before
we go into the last step and add Yellow…

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Exercise 1

Zone 3 ques us starting number (SN) 39 Total 39

Reverse SN = 9 Orange
- 3 Red
Add up = 12 Blue
Double (=24) and subtract from SN (39) = 15 Green

Exercise 2

Zone 7 ques us starting number (SN) 71 Total 71

Reverse SN = 1 Orange
- 7 Red
Add up = 8 Blue
Double = 16 Green
Double (=32) and subtract from SN (71) = 39 Pink

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Exercise 3

Zone 4 ques us starting number (SN) 42 Total 42

Reverse SN = 2 Orange
- 4 Red
Add up = 6 Blue
Double = 12 Green
Double (=24) and subtract from SN (42) = 18 Pink

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Yellow = + 10

To make the system complete I added a sixth color Yellow. The number of Yellow
dots are super easy, you can’t even call it a calculation. Just take the Zone Number (2,
3, 4, 5, 6 or 7) and put a 1 in front of it (as if you add ten) and you’re done.

2 becomes 12, 3 becomes 13, 4 becomes 14 and so on.

The only thing you need to take care of is that you need to add this number to the
‘starting number’ to get the new total and continue from there. For the rest always
keep calculating all colors from the ‘starting number’.

Let’s practice one more time with all the colors including the Yellow!

Exercise 1

Zone 3 ques us starting number (SN) 39+ 13 (Yellow) = Total 52

Reverse SN = 9 Orange
- 3 Red
Add up = 12 Blue
Double (=24) and subtract from SN (39) = 15 Green
Zone number +10 13 Yellow

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Exercise 2

Zone 7 ques us starting number (SN) 71+ 17 (Yellow) = Total is 88

Reverse SN = 1 Orange
- 7 Red
Add up = 8 Blue
Double = 16 Green
Double (=32) and subtract from SN (71) = 39 Pink
Zone number +10 17 Yellow

Exercise 3

Zone 4 ques us starting number (SN) 42+ 14 (Yellow) = Total is 56

Reverse SN = 2 Orange
- 4 Red
Add up = 6 Blue
Double = 12 Green
Double (=24) and subtract from SN (42) = 18 Pink
Zone number +10 14 Yellow

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Exercise 4

Zone 2 ques us starting number (SN) 26 + 12 (Yellow) = Total is 38

Reverse SN = 6 Orange
- 2 Red
Add up = 8 Blue
Double (=16) and subtract from SN (26) = 10 Green
Zone number +10 12 Yellow

Exercise 5

Zone 6 ques us starting number (SN) 68+ 16 (Yellow) = Total is 84

Reverse SN = 8 Orange
- 6 Red
Add up = 14 Blue
Double = 28 Green
Double (=56) and subtract from SN (68) = 12 Pink
Zone number +10 16 Yellow

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All outcomes including Yellow:

Zone SN Y Total O R B G P Y
Zone 2 = SN26 + Y12 = T38 6O / 2R 8B 10G - 12Y
Zone 3 = SN39 + Y13 = T52 9O / 3R 12B 15G - 13Y
Zone 4 = SN42 + Y14 = T56 2O / 4R 6B 12G 18P 14Y
Zone 5 = SN55 + Y15 = T70 5O / 5R 10B 20G 15P 15Y
Zone 6 = SN68 + Y16 = T84 8O / 6R 14B 28G 12P 16Y
Zone 7 = SN71 + Y17 = T88 1O / 7R 8B 16G 39P 17Y

Important notes!

1) I prefer to construct both Rain Man and eXtreme Rain Man as an eXtreme Pad™.
This way you can have the spectator check all pages lifting up and also have the
spectator select the force page lifting up. And even more important, if they want
to check the pad later (and they probably will) they can again lift up the pages in a
very natural way like you normally would.

2) You can use the normal size and the stage size SvenPads® but I prefer the stage
size because it’s just a little easier for the spectator to count the dots and people
surrounding also have a much better view.

3) You can also print all pages and use removable glue to put one preprinted page
on every page of the pad. It’s not really necessary and I have used color pencils to
draw the dots directly into the SvenPads® but a benefit is that with the printed
pages they can cross out the dots when they are counting out loud.

They can even take out the page and keep it as a souvenir. Be aware that you only
let them take out the page after you have done you half second peek and checked
if it’s not the same zone number that you used before.

4) If you print the pages immediately print a bunch of extra pages, this way you can
reset the pad very fast. Just stick two pages with the same zone numbers on the
empty pages and you’re ready to go again.

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5) If you use removable glue it’s important that you glue at least one stripe at the
top as with eXtreme Color Match this way you can make your pad very fast and
also you can take out the pages very easy during the performance.

If you want you can put a small dot of removable glue on the bottom but it’s not
necessary.

I really hope you will take the time to create an eXtreme Rain Man Pad, it will be a lot
of fun to perform. It’s easy, it’s amazing, it looks like the real thing and it can be very
funny and very entertaining.

One more tip I would like to include is that you can do your half second peek
eXtremely fast if you want. Just ask the spectator to hold the pad open at the selected
page right before his or her head at eye level. Now ask him or her to hold it in the left
hand and cover it with the right hand from underneath upwards. This way there is a
very big chance that you are able to see the zone number immediately when you turn
to the pad. Now when you say: “Move your hand when I say, YES!” chances are high
that you can already see the zone number. Another way to get the zone number
before you really started is to get a glimpse during your instructions. It’s not weird if
you look for a second when you are explaining how you want them to hold or handle
the pad. When I know the zone number before we start I really play it out big. I
scream “YES!” and I look only for one hundredth of a second, really superfast so
people think it’s impossible for me to see anything. In a hundredth of a second I look
away and scream “Ahhhh…” keeping my hand before my eyes for a second and then I
look in the air from left to right and move my head from the left to the right like a
real Rain Man. As if I’m studying the mental picture I just made.

The only thing I have to do now are some easy calculations and create a big show
around that little devilish SvenPad®

Now be The Man

Be Rain Man!

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The Lie Detector Pad

Naturally you can transform any SvenPad® into a Lie Detector Pad. You just have to
adapt your presentation. Ask the spectator to always answer your question with yes
and act as if you can see if they lie or tell the truth. You can also ask an open
questions and again act as if you study the answer and pretend that you are
specialized in body language.

A real good example for a Lie Detector demonstration is the Murder Mystery at page
75 of this book but like hypnosis and readings you can implement some lie detection
skills into most mental demonstrations and that’s why I recommend that you read
some books about real body language and lie detection skills. It will make you a wiser
mentalist and you can really make use of these skills even if it was only as a fake
explanation but the more you know about the subject the better it is. I know it has
served me well for many years.

If you want to do a Lie Detector test with multiple people and use only one pad you
could use a Multi-Force-Pad as described on page 161.

Just ask one person to select a category, a color, a number, a date, a place and so on
and let the other person select something different. Just like described with the Multi-
Force-Pad and you immediately know what your spectators are concentrating on.

If one person has a time, one person a celebrity name and one person a car, a place
or an amount of money, you can now show off your skills in body language and lie
detection.

Always take your time and add some fake explanations like, your left eye blinked, you
moved your foot, you swallowed when I said… or you didn’t move with the third
question or answer and so on.

Play it well and have fun!

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You
Need an
impression
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Mind Reading
There are many ways to demonstrate you can read their minds but you really connect
with your audience when you prove you know personal information that you could
never know…

“No, way!”

“Not in a million years!”

That is what they are shouting when you do prove to know these personal things
about them… things that you could never know. One of the most used tools to get
this information are impression devices. Every mentalist has at least a few of these
and because we don’t want to use another writing tool ever five minute it’s a great
idea to have them in your SvenPads® too.

Before I explain how to create some devilish impression devices in your SvenPads® I
would like to give you a few examples of how to use them.

One of the best ideas is to make a pad filled with personal questions, like;

- What is your favorite card

- What is your favorite book
- What is your favorite country
- What is your favorite drink
- What is your favorite candy
- What is your favorite actor
- What is the size of your shoes
- What is your favorite sport
- What is your birthday
- What is your name
- What is your favorite food
- What is your hobby
- What is your favorite movie

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 - Who is your favorite singer
- What is your Pin-Code
- What is your phone number
- What is your favorite song
- What is your star sign
- What is your favorite memory
- What is the name of your best friend
- What is your favorite pet
- What is your favorite color
- What is your favorite TV-program
- What is the name of your favorite aunt
- What is your favorite outfit
- What is your favorite dress

A SvenPad® filled with personal questions can kill and the most important thing is
that you always control the selected question…

You can create many great SvenPads® with other force questions and they will all be
great but they will be even better if you know the answer to this personal question!

There are two ways to know the answer:

A) You know the information because you secretly read a note, or you heard a
name, a number or looked into a phone, Facebook or any other source and
you use any information you can use this for your demonstration…

or

B) You steal the information like many mentalist do with a mentalism tool, like
e.g. a Centre Tear, a Billet Switch or an Impression Device.

No matter what method you use I promise you that you helper will freak out when
you answer the question that you could not even now, with an answer that you could
never know!

Let’s create a multi tool…

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SvimPressionPads™
I’m probably not the first that had the idea to implement an Impression Device in a
SvenPad® and I will probably not be the last too. I remember that Brett told me that
maybe he would produce SvenPads® with a ParaPad cover. I assumed that it would
be a complete ParaPad cover with gimmick and pen included. It was only months
later that when I saw the first SvenPad® KøD ParaPad Edition that I realized that it
was a SvenPad® with only a ParaPad cover to match the real ParaPads. Naturally the
idea of an impression device in a SvenPad® was still in my mind and I was not the
only one. Soon after the SvenPad® KøD ParaPad Edition was released I read ideas
about ordering the ParaPad Impression material to create your own SvenPad®
impression device with it.

1. Ali Nouira - Steam

Brett Barry wrote a really great idea at the SvenPad Supreme Facebook Group. His
tip was to add your Steam gimmick material to the back of the cover to gain your
impression. This can be done in real-time or pre-show and we can’t reveal the secret
but I do recommend you to buy Steam or Steam 2.0 by Ali Nouira.

All I can say is that Steam is an amazing way to receive an impression from a business
card or other piece of paper that has been in a special position for a few seconds. It’s
like real magic and if all conditions are right it can be of great value to all serious
SvenPad® users.

2. ParaLabs - ParaFoil

Stefan Paradaen from Belgium recorded a short demo video that he posted on the
SvenPad® Supreme Facebook Group. In this video he explained how he set-up his
SvenPad® with some ParaFoil. Watch that video it’s a really good idea that many of
you will use. I had similar thoughts but I’m also a big fan of a delayed peek like e.g.
ParaLabs so cleverly used with their ParaNormal Peek Wallet.

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3. Jan Forster’s - ForsterPad

Jan Forster a good friend and professional mentalist from Germany had a really
brilliant idea. He created a devilish notepad with a genius system build into the cover
of a normal note pad. He explains everything in great detail in his amazing Penguin
Lecture. He will teach you how to create it with different impression materials such as
the ParaFoil from ParaLabs. A perfect and very useful method. You will find many
gems in this lecture, he does not only perform some amazing mental stunts but he
will also teach all the ins and outs and every detail of his creations.

That’s why I highly recommend you to buy Jan Forster’s Penguin Lecture!

I have been experimenting with SvenPads® and Impression Materials a lot and
because I like to print my covers for some of the SvenPads® I found a way to use the
cover to add a great Impression Device (with a delayed peek if needed).

It was Jan Forster’s invention that inspired me to create a SvenPad® with a slit in the
cover and envelopes with a flap that work like a sleeve to receive and extract the
impression with some envelopes that are inside a SvenPad®

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The SvimPressionPad™
It has similarities with Jan Forster’s Impression Pad (From his Penguin Lecture) but it’s
constructed in a completely different way and with completely different handlings
that have some benefits with a SvenPad®. Let’s me show you how it’s constructed.

To start you must cut a slit in your SvenPad® cover of choice.

Some envelopes inside the SvenPad® (under the cover) have a flap attached to the
back envelop that went through the slit you made in the cover.

On this extra flap you can attach the impression material that you prefer to use.
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Attach the impression material on the flap as in the picture on the left. Put repositionable
glue around the original cover like the red line in the picture on the right.

Now attach a printed cover on it, like in the picture below.

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Overview

This is a side view of an open SvimPressionPad™

In the picture above you can clearly see how to construct your SvimPressionPad™.
I would use 3 envelopes inside. Only one envelop has a flap attached to it. This flap
with the impression material must be shorter than the envelopes.

You can use Magic Slate material, ParaFoil or just glue some Carbon Paper to the
back of the cover (instead of on the flap) and use Post-It Notes on the flap to receive
the impressions from the Carbon Paper that must be attached to the inside of the
printed cover. You can easily change the Post-It notes after every performance to
reset your SvimPressionPad™ fast and easy and when the Carbon Paper dries out
you can also change it fast because you used repositionable glue to attach the cover!

Always create the flap the thinnest way possible. That’s why I taped some ParaFoil
directly to the top of one envelope to get the thinnest flap possible.

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During the performance the original short flaps of the envelopes are folded down like
in the picture below.

As soon as you retrieve the pad after the writing or drawing is done you put the pad
in your pocket or suitcase.

During this action you secretly put your thumb or index finger behind the gimmicked
cover for a moment and secretly pull up all the short flaps. This is easy to do and this
action will prepare the envelopes to be ready to steal a little later. It doesn’t matter if
you have to lift the cover a little to do this as long as you do it when you are clearly
not looking at the pad, having the pad in a position that it’s impossible to see it!

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My cover-up handling
Most of the time I use three envelopes and when I take them out to hand one to the
spectator, I use my right hand to take the envelopes keeping the flap with the
impression to the body hiding the impression. Then my right thumb thumbs of the
back envelop with the flap into the left hand and at that moment I have very short
peek at the impression. immediately and in the same motion I reach with my right
hand (that is still holding the other TWO envelopes) to the spectator to hand him one.

I simply push off one in his hand and act as if I accidentally had two in my hands.
Again in one move I put the envelop that I kept in my right hand on top of the
impression I have in my left hand. This way I can casually show both sides before I put
it away in my right side jacket pocket (I never put it back in the same pocket it came
from to disconnect from the idea it could come from the pad I just used)!

Maybe it reads a little confusing but it is very easy and it all happens in a few seconds.
The nice thing is that you can casually show both sides of what you have left and
even put the two envelopes you have left openly on the table for a moment. This is
very important and will add another layer of deception.

On the inside I have (permanently) glued a small band (like an Out to Lunch band) to
make it look like there are just a few envelopes behind a band (if someone should
ever look inside).

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Handling:
Loose page and Flaps

Just put an loose page under the cover of your SvenPad® and pretend that you tear
it out and place it on the top of the printed cover of your SvimPressionPad™ so the
pad can serve as a writing surface. The moment the writing or drawing is done tell
them to fold the paper in pieces. Immediately take over the pad as if you want to help
so the spectator can have his hands free. Keep your eyes on the spectators eyes when
you secretly pull up the flaps from the envelopes to get them ready for the steal later
and put the envelop in your inside jacket pocket. Keep looking at the spectator and
act as if you just realize you also have some envelopes to make it even more fair.

Many other ideas have been tested on my

desk the past year.

Magnets, Glue, Sliding Parts, Flaps, Loose Pages, Mirrors,

Shiners, Cut open Pages, Magic Slates, Wooden Boards,
Carbon Paper, Special Sheets, Magic Dust, Metal, Mirrors
and so on…

But I still use one of the first ideas for some occasions and I created three variations
because they are really simple, very easy to use and they work.

They are also really easy to construct and easy to remove and transfer from one
SvenPad® to another.

Here are all three variations.

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SvenTop 1 (Another Impression Device variation)

In short this is just a double cover with impression material between it and you have
to lift the top part to peek the impression underneath.

The double cover is just two covers made from one long piece that is twice the size of
the cover folded in half, that you can open at the front and that is attached with the
back to the original cover with some removable glue.

SvenTop 2 (Another Impression Device variation)

The second variation is a very similar but with the opening on the left and closed on
the (long) right side so it can be opened like a book. You can make both but to be
honest I prefer the last version that opens like a book because it’s a little easier to
open when I place it away and secretly peek the impression later.

Both can be used for pre-show and if you use it during the show you should put the
pad away in your suitcase or somewhere out of sight where you can later secretly
peek by opening it like a book when you take something from the suitcase or box.

For use in Real Time you should make the top part a little longer as the original cover
so you can open it fast when you take a page to write from the pad.

SvenTop 3 (Another Impression Device variation)

The third variation is just a one page (printed) cover I glue with repositionable glue
but only at the (closed) end where the black binding on the original SvenPads® is.
With the same glue I glue the Impression material on the original cover and the only
thing I need to do is lift up the added (printed) cover to get my glimpse.

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You can also create these variation on the back of your SvenPad® and just adapt the
handling a little.

For some applications I prefer the Magnetic Foil for other applications the Magic Slate
Material. With the Magic Slate material the spectator can write smaller letters, you can
use almost any pen or pencil and it’s very clear but you have to be careful with
bending the Magic Slate Stuff because it can partly erase the impression like below.

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extreme
thief

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eXtreme Thief™
The eXtreme Thief is a variation of all previous ideas combined with a devilish
handling. Another eXtrementalism idea that I have been using for a very long time
with… but also many many times without a SvenPad®.

I have been using eXtreme Thief variations for over 20 years and I have been
thinking if I should include this in this book or keep it for the eXtrementalism Book
that I will release over a few years. Another passion project that I’m working on for
many years already. The eXtrementalism Book is very important for me and I wrote
the eXtreme teleFoto and eXtreme SvenPad® e-books so people could get to know
me a little and see how I think. The eXtrementalism book will contain most of my
ideas from the past 35 years, many that I have never shared before. It’s another
project that really needs time to write. Something I only realize more and more now
I’m almost finished writing the eXtreme SvenPad® Supreme e-Book that I planned to
write in a few months but took me almost a year. Every time I read through the notes
with all my ideas that I wrote the past 35 years I got new ideas for the SvenPads®
and the book kept growing and growing. The 40 pages became almost 300 pages
and two months became almost a year and this was not the easiest year for me and
my loved ones. We lost close friends and family to illness we didn’t see coming, my
wife was ill, I had an eye operation that took much longer to heal than expected and
many times I was not able to write and again and again it took me much longer to
finish this project. So I decided to include this this gem that served me so well over
the years to make up for all the delays.

eXtreme Thief is my way to handle impression material in a way that can be used in
unlimited ways. As a mentalist we almost forget that we are magicians too and that
we can move, steal, palm and hide items right under the nose of our audience. We are
used to manipulate cards in the most spectacular ways but in mentalism we use these
skills much less. With eXtreme Thief you steal the thoughts right under the nose of
our audience. It’s simple, it’s clever and can be used in many ways and that’s the
power of eXtreme Thief.

I could easily fill a large chapter about all uses of eXtreme Thief but I want to focus
on the use of eXtreme Thief with SvenPads® here…

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First we must create a place to hide the impression material and later we will steal it
to read the information your spectator helper is concentrating on.

Example 1 The Pocket

Where I hold the paper in the first picture the paper is folded.
Then cut out a window and put glue on both sides.

Glue this pocket to the back of the cover or to the bottom of your SvenPad® so you
can easily steal it later and people can write on a piece of Post-It note you just put on
the top or bottom of your prepared SvenPad®. This way you get a pocket and you
can insert your impression material in this pocket.

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After the writing or drawing is finished can steal and read the impression. You could
do this after the pre-show safely in another room or during a performance in an open
suitcase, or secretly pull it out from your inside jacket pocket and so on.

But the experienced magician can easily steal and palm the impression material right
under the nose of you audience...

Exposed view:

Just like how you would toy with your deck and palm a card, you can toy with your
SvenPad® while you talk and make eye contact to distract your helper and at the
same time secretly steal and palm the impression material.

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A nice way to hide the palmed impression material is to put your SvenPad® on top of
it immediately after the steal.

This way you can relax and gesture with the pad and take your time and peek the
impression whenever you want.

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The Envelope Steal

Another great way to steal the impression material is with something on top of the
loaded SvenPad® like some loose envelopes, a book or some papers. When you get
the pad back secretly out-jog the impression material a little. Then put when you put
it on the table immediately put some envelopes on top of it pretending that you need
the table space.

A few moments later when you take the envelopes (or whatever you have put on top
of it) you steal the impression material from the pad.

Exposed bottom view stealing the impression material with fingers or thumb::

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Another great benefit from using the envelopes, paper or a book is that you can peek
the information very openly and very easy while gesturing with your hand holding the
envelope with the impression material underneath.

After you peeked the impression you can hand one envelope to the spectator like I
described before with the SvimPression Pad ™ or use the envelop or papers to write
or just to recap what happened, like that the spectator wrote in a way nobody could
see and that you now want him or her to imagine they can see the paper in front of
them very large and very clear.

Remember you can put many things on top of the loaded pad to cover and steal the
impression material. Always use something that you can justify best or whatever you
have already used that can do the job. To steal the impression material the I have
used envelopes, (Tarot) cards, papers, clipboards, boxes and even my mobile phone.

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Warning: If you use your mobile phone with the magnetic impression material you
always have to test if it doesn’t destroy the impression. My Samsung S7 Edge has a
small area on the bottom that appears to be magnetic. When I turn this phone
around I have no problems but my iPhone 5i has a magnetic area on top and on the
bottom of the phone. So always test if and where your phone is magnetic first.

Lift and peek

Again you can use any other item to cover the small out-jogged flap of the
impression material and I really prefer the delayed peek but naturally you could also
peek the impression material without stealing it from your pad. The easiest way is to
secretly pull up the cover like this:

You could also make a transparent pocket. The same way as above but transparent.
This way you can still choose to steal if you want but you can also lift and peek if you
want. If you only want to lift and peek you can just glue the impression material to
the cover. Again this is not my preferred method but I wanted to include it for
completeness.

I have experimented with many ways to steal an impression long ago and found a
way that doesn’t use an envelope or book to cover and it was eXtremely easy to do!
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The Ultra Clean eXtreme Thief

Just like how you palm a playing card you can palm most impression material of
similar size. This is very easy to set up especially with the smaller pads. Put a piece of
poker sized impression material in a pocket under the cover. Pull it out a little when
you retrieve the pad and steal it whenever you want.

These loose pieces of impression material really did some amazing magic for me.

I have put them in many places and I will definitely write more in-depth about it in
the eXtrementalism book but let me show you the cleanest way to use eXtreme thief
with our most innocent SvenPads® the SvenPad® Post-It Notes.

Just put a piece of impression material under the top page or under the bottom page
of the your pad.

During the performance you pull off a note and hand it to the spectator but then you
act as if you realize that this loose piece of paper isn’t very handy for the spectator to
write on and then you put it back on the pad but deliberately very oblique, so the
spectator can easily peel of the top Post-It note after writing without accidently
peeling of one or two other notes and discover the impression material.

In the next picture I have put the impression material under the back page of a
SvenPad® Post-It note:

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Especially with these small sizes it’s very easy to steal the impression material that is
loose under the top or bottom page.

Simply slide out the impression materials when you are talking or when you put the
pad in you inside jacket pocket.

A simple steal will make you a perfect thief … a thief of thoughts!

Again most of the time I steal the impression material immediately when I put the
pad on the table or in my pocket. Never look at the pad! This is very important.

Then immediately put your hands behind your back for a moment and act as if you
are concentrating on the spectators thoughts. That’s when you put the impression
material in your back pocket so you can flash your hands empty a few times before
you peek the information in the most devilish way possible…

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A few moments later when you are both concentrating hard you re-steal the
impression material with your right hand from your back pocket and immediately put
the ‘dirty’ right hand on the spectators shoulder. Super bold and full in the open you
reposition the spectator and also put your left hand on his other shoulder and ask
him to look in your eyes and concentrate on his question (or whatever he wrote or
drawn). Then put your hand(s) on behind his ear(s) for a moment and ask him to close
his eyes a few seconds to really concentrate as hard as he can.

This is the perfect moment to read what you have palmed in your right hand…

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that you as a mind reader
can 100% honestly say!

Without any lying!

That you can really see!

What the spectator is concentrating on!

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And I bet that when you say this in a real performance you will have a big smile on
your face or at least you will smile on the inside. You are now left to reveal your
psychic impressions in any way you want.

You can even wait and ditch your impression material and reveal the information later
to add another layer of deception but it’s clever and it’s clean and you can use it in
many ways.

Tip 1
Sometimes is better to glue the impression material on a piece of cardboard to make
it stronger and stiff. Always use smooth slippery material so you can easily slide it out.

Tip 2
You can use the magnetic impression material or carbon but if you use the magic
slate material you really have to be careful not to bend it too much otherwise the top
film will come loose and this will erase the drawing. You can prevent this by putting a
very firm but thin piece of card under the magic slate material so it can’t bend.

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Magnetic Impression Material

It’s very difficult to find really good and reliable magnetic impression material but I
have limited stock and I will place some examples on my website soon especially for
all MiracleMindFX-costumers.

I really have only about 30 or 40 pieces of green and yellow high quality material that
I have used myself for many years but if the demand is high maybe I will order some
more to help all costumers.

Please check WWW.MIRACLEMINDFX.NL for more information or send an e-mail.

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 This book is an incredibly powerful tool for your
SvenPads® and opens up whole new worlds of creativity!

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The only thing I can add to this is that we have now come to the end of this book.
I really hope that my book inspired you and that you found new ideas and ways to
use your SvenPads®, hopefully to entertain people wherever you are. Use your
creativity and combine the different pads, handlings and themes. I can’t say it
enough, combining ideas is the real power of this book!

Use the index to quickly search for ideas, or re-read some parts and create your own
combinations quickly. Don’t put the book away after reading it once. The journey has
just begun and now you can create your own mix with the ideas I presented you here.

Again combining that’s where the real power is… combining different pads, handlings,
ideas and adding extra information like a name, number, time, prices and so on.

I really hope you will use my ideas to create your own to entertain people and have
fun. It’s my wish and you can make my dream come true when you perform my ideas
and really entertain with it! Make my dream come through, my wish that different
entertainers all over the world will entertain and amaze people all over the world!

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 Coming Soon!

WARNING
On the next few pages you will read an ad for an effect you can buy separately at
MiracleMindFX.NL

BUT
Even though the ad is 100% true…
You will NOT believe it
You will NOT trust the ad
BUT… it’s REALLY true!

You will think:

“How can the spectator have a free choice?”

“No way, it’s impossible without asking questions!”

- The most amazing SvenPad secret ever -

And a secret that

will make you smile…
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 The Ultimate SvenPad®

The Ultimate SvenPad® is what it is… the Ultimate SvenPad®

and it’s called ShowPad™
It’s about famous logos but…

IT WILL NOT LOOK LIKE THIS

THIS THIS THIS OR THIS

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 IT WILL LOOK LIKE THIS!

Think about it!

People will see at least 9 or 10 different logo’s even on the force page!
You show a pad filled with about 500 famous logos!
Every page has about 9 or 10 different logos

ALSO THE ‘FREELY SELECTED’ PAGE!!!

The spectator will be given a 100% free choice

and even though there are many logo’s at the force page
the mind reader will immediately be able to start revealing what the spectator
is only thinking of and then name the selected logo…
All without any questions asked!
The spectator doesn’t talk or write anything down

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 It’s super clean… as if it was real Mind reading!
No grouping - No categories - No colors
No talking - No writing - No guessing

10 TIMES THE POWER!

There is nothing to write down. The outcome is NOT the same every time.
Can be repeated. The spectator doesn’t have to say a word. Can be done close up and
on a large stage. Great for ladies that like to shop. Filled with famous logos. The
Ultimate pad for Trade Shows. A method that will make you smile.

THIS METHOD IS BASED ON REAL MINDREADING!!!

A revolutionary method that will make you smile every time you perform ShowPad™

Coming soon!

Check our website for more information

ORDER HERE

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Special Note to all beginners and hobbyists

Here are some real secrets that professional entertainers already know:

As with all mental demonstrations, present it well, act and give it the time and
practice it deserves! Never reveal too fast in your performances and
demonstrations - take your time to read their minds!

Small mistakes make it more realistic.

Be vague sometimes, and don’t be afraid to miss.

Most of the time a miss will make it stronger!

Plan some mistakes, it will only make it more real.

Work on your acting skills!

Never forget the moment of the mind-reading.

If you present it well, this will be one of the closest things to real mind reading
you will ever do... Did I say, take your time and really start acting?

Write presentation ideas, a script or a guiding line and use humor. It will be
time well spent.

Always compliment your helper for making it all possible! Always!

And tell your helper that if he or she didn’t have such a strong mindset, the
demonstration would not have been such a success.

Again a mentalist must work on his acting skills even more than a magician.
Even Though he can be funny, many parts of what a mentalist does are very
serious! Get acting lessons it will make your demonstrations ten times stronger
and you will have much more fun.

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I hope that I have shared enough to get create some new SvenPads® fast. I have no
doubts that there are many more ways to use your SvenPads® and if you have an
idea…

Please let me know!

WWW.MIRACLEMINDFX.NL
Check out our website!

For some Special SvenPad™ ARTWORK

For some very special EFFECTS
Very soon and for a very special price!

I wish you all the luck in the world and I hope you will take the ideas from the book
and mix and combine them to get the ultimate SvenPad® demonstrations.
Use the new completely hands-off-handlings,

Go out there and kill with it.

As I said before, it’s my dream that you all go out there and use my ideas
to entertain and amaze people around world.

I love to receive your feedback,

and I really hope you enjoyed reading this book.

Now go out there and entertain them...

This is it!

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 Special thanks to:

My lovely wife Godie

My beautiful wife, my love and pride
Thank you for your unconditional love and support!
You were only 15 years old and it was love at first sight
And after 34 amazing years,
I still love you more than words can say!

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 Thank you:
All my magic and mentalism friends all over the world!
-

Jos Schings
Thanks for the nice conversations and fun days

Thank you so much all proofreaders!

-

Especially
Gordon Bellefeuille - Gordon Edmund
Hypnotist
-

Brett Barry
He is too busy but always helped if he could and he is a real friend
-

Jan Forster
A real inspiration and a friend
-

Christopher Taylor
For his contribution Pink

Soren Harbo and Craig Filicetti

For the best customer service in the world and high end mentalism!
-

Peter Turner
A real inspiration and friend
-

Jerry Dunn
My new friend

Copyright © John van der Linden 2017

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Important links:

Miracle Mind FX - the eXtrementalist John Dream

John van der Linden

Author of eXtreme SvenPad® Supreme and teleFoto eXtreme
www.miraclemindfx.nl

Brett Berry - Entertainment in mind

http://www.phoenixmentalist.com/

Gordon Bellefeuille - Mentalist Hypnotist

www.GordonEdmund.com

Oz Pearlman - Mentalist & Magician

http://www.ozpearlman.com/

Jan Forster - Mentalist Gedankenlezer

http://www.gedankenmagier.de/

Chester Sass - Author of 120% Chestosterone

http://www.mindmagic.de/

Peter Turner - The Perceptionist

https://www.facebook.com/peterturnermind

Rostami Magic - The best magic app creator in the world

www.rostamimagic.com

Stephen Young - Thought Illusions

http://www.thoughtillusions.com/espy-onage.html

Bill Abbot - Performer and creator

http://www.billabbottmagic.com

Christopher Taylor - Performer Creator

http://taylorimagineering.com/shop/electronic/

The Magic Café - Forum

http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/index.php

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THANK YOU!

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