Description
Prepare to have your brain bubbling with ideas. A decade on from Oliver’s bestsellers The Plot Thickens and Plot Twists, he’s back with a new book brimming with creativity.
Expect fresh plots, streamlined methods and playful audience interaction. Several of the tricks are also ‘scalable’, so they can play in both close-up and parlor performances.
Discover 19 tricks and 11 ideas (mostly cards, with a few exceptions), including:
- The Other Three Magicians: Give three participants their own magic powers, so they can each experience being both audience member and magician.
- Kerchunk: A selection is found using a ‘tweezers card’ and ends up stapled to it.
- Synesthesia: Using magical means, you simulate a participant ‘seeing’ colors when hearing music.
- Trick of the Months: An ingenious lead-in to Shuffle-Bored for more meaningful predictions (assumes knowledge of Aronson’s method).
- Drowning in Wallets: Finally, a fun way to use all those magic wallets sitting in your drawer.
- On Point: A game spinner is used to eliminate cards and find a signed selection in a surprising way.
- Pinky Perch: A walkaround workaround for when your audience have their hands full.
- Coin Jar: A coin vanishes from a participant’s hand and penetrates a sealed jar of pasta sauce, with the safety button still down.
Plus, two essays on creativity to inspire your own thought bubbles. So, pour yourself a drink (sparkling or otherwise) and dive in.
Hardback, color cover, B&W interior, US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm), 180 pages.
« There’s always real joy in reading a new book by Oliver Meech, and he manages to be both creative and practical, a rare combination. His tricks use unique plots, novel methods, and I really enjoyed the theory he shares about creativity too. A great book, and an appropriate title, as it will make your brain fizz! »
– Liam Montier
« The one word that best describes exploring Oliver Meech’s books and material over the years is simply « FUN! » And it must be all in capitals to emphasize just how fun it actually is! »
– Nikola Arkane
« I’m a huge fan of Oliver Meech but there has always been one thing I didn’t like about his material – there simply wasn’t enough of it! Well, he has remedied that, and in spades. … There is so much brilliant material to read, study and learn here that it confirms what some of us have known for a while: Oliver is a genius when it comes to creating clever, offbeat and fooling magic. Put this on your ‘Buy Immediately’ list. »
– Mark Elsdon
