The most sensational, simplified, baffling and easy to present mental magic miracle we've ever seen.

There's no switching, palming, sleight of hand or advance preparation needed.

The effect is that a single column of want ads from any newspaper is freely shown. It is not gimmicked or prepared in any way. Holding the strip vertically, you start to snip ads from the bottom of the strip, one at a time, until a spectator says for you to stop.

The strip is immediately handed to the spectator with the request that he reads aloud the last ad on the strip, the one at which he stopped you. It is found to correspond exactly with a prediction which you wrote before the show and which you had placed in full view before the start of the effect.

If desired, you can even mail your sealed prediction to the entertainment chairman or some prominent person a week or two prior to the show.

Not just an entertaining mentalism effect, but also one that adds a potential for comedy and a heathy dose of suspense. (Will the spectator stop the mentalist at the proper place? Did the performer make the correct prediction?)

It gets even better when the props can be examined. In this case, an ordinary pair of scissors, and the cut portions of a strip from the local newspaper.

There's nothing more to find at the end, nor is anything hidden on the mentalist's person. You can even do it in your birthday suit! It's as clean an effect as it's possible to perform in mental magic.

Here is perfect magic mentalism. Guard the secret well.

Formerly sold for the equivalent of $20.00 in today's money.

Magic World Publishers revised edition features five new chapters and an added illustration.

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