Whiteboard Citation for
Mentalists
By Professor Spellbinder
Just in case you’re not
familiar with U.F. Grant’s Streamlined version of Citation,
it was a variation of Hen Fetsch’s Mental Epic that
shrank the board to half its size. The predictions are made on
one side of the board and the events as they happen or items as
they are chosen are written on the other side of the board.
As in the Hen Fetsch original,
one item is forced and the other two are freely chosen. The
original was a chalkboard, but Citation can take on new life if
you convert it into a whiteboard and write on it with dry erase
markers. I’ll show you how to make several versions,
including a Dollar Store version made for under $5.00, and the
original Grant Citation which predated Hen Fetsch's Mental
Epic by a couple of years... yes, Grant invented the concept
FIRST!
There is a version of Citation
described in the e-Book "Mind
Reading Puppets" in The Wizards' Journal #18, but this e-Book is meant for the serious Mental
Magician who wants to perform it as a serious mental effect of
reading minds and making predictions of events that have not yet
happened. However, the Puppet Version has an addendum by Wiz Kid
Qua-Fiki that serious mentalists might want to investigate; he
has worked out a way to perform Citation with absolutely no
forcing needed. There is also a video
you can see for FREE.
I am grateful to Paul Romhany for
including my personal routine for Citation in his recently
published (2010) "Mental Epic Compendium." It is an honor to be included among the contributors
for that vast volume of Mental Epic routines. You'll still need
this e-Book for construction details, plus all of the other bonus
goodies that it contains.
MM2-09
Whiteboard
Citation for Mentalists
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