The important thing here, IMHO, is explaining to the audience some very important facts. First: what a magic square is second: what others ("the mathematical genius") did and third: what he intends to do. In this masterful presentation, this takes 4:18 minutes and it's very evident that the audience is totally interested all the while. Lorayne tells his audience he is going to surpass the "mathematical genius" by filling the square "without thinking" instead of taking a minute or two thinking the thing out.Īlso, Mr Lorayne keeps up his sleeve the four-corner, mirror diagonals, inner squares. He only talks about horizontal lines, columns and diagonals adding to the selected number and brushes by them at the denouement, telling the audience they can check them out by themselves. Thus, by keeping this a surprise he keeps the climax from sagging, which could easily happen since the audience knew from the beginning what the effect was going to be.īut when he reveals that the other combinations (that he didn't even mention in the explanation at the beginning) also add to the selected number, that's when the real surprise and audience reaction come in. This is a masterful presentation that should be studied, not to copy Mr Lorayne's way of performing it, but to really learn how to present a trick that could very easily be a flop if not presented properly.I was a PRISONER OF WAR in North Vietnam from September 26th, 1966 until March 4th, 1973. Shortly before I was shot down and captured I learned your MEMORY POWER systems. The prisoners of war had no reading or writing material, so we relied solely on memory for sanity, entertainment, names of other POWs, military directives and orders. During the first months of captivity, while flat on my back in a cast, I applied your systems for my own benefit, and it indeed worked! I then taught it to hundreds of my fellow POWs over the next six years.
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