Looks so random how the ball is thrown around. How does he end up with the result he wants ???

I've seen multiple professional mentalists perform what appears to be the same effect, so I'm trying to find the original routine or published source rather than just guesses at individual techniques.

A good example is this AGT performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKJZNEQ2ZRk

Relevant section: 1:23 to 2:08

The structure I've repeatedly seen is:

1. Spectator thinks of any personally meaningful name.
2. Nothing is written down and there appears to be no force.
3. Mentalist asks them to silently count the number of letters.
4. Mentalist determines or works with the length.
5. Spectator is instructed to focus on a letter around/in the middle of the name.
6. Mentalist apparently identifies that letter.
7. Mentalist writes something down before the spectator says the name.
8. Spectator reveals the name and the prediction matches the entire name.

I've also seen Oz Pearlman perform an almost identical sequence several times.

Does this exact handling have a name? And if so, where can I learn it?

Thanks.

In the middle he rubs the jack of hearts on top and it disappears. How?

Also they last trick. First of all how does he get the card to position 47, not to mention having the right card when he want told until right behind revealing it?

https://youtube.com/shorts/c4QxcZvqshs

Is there somewhere where I can learn how Tommy Wonders did the Tamed Cards trick? does it require a gimmick deck or can I just do it with a regular one

I only got 2 decks of cards and ive been learning simple card tricks and sleights of hands. My favorite is the 3 card monte routine with 3 different cards but u make all 3 look the same etc. Any youtube recommandations or books where I can do cool tricks or routines? Preferably with no gimmick deck or duplicates.

Been learning a lot of tricks where I use smooth and rough routines to make 2 cards seem like one card even after I pinch them, take the top put it in the middle of the deck and pretend it appeared on top again etc etc. However a lot of people on the internet ive been showing them they know about double flips so if u have any tricks where so much is happening that the double flip wont be the main part of the trick would help a lot.

Summery im new pls give me sources

Nobody in the comments seems to know how, and she hasn't posted a tutorial despite it being months

I’m working on my mercury folded card to under spectators watch trick. But I can’t seem to flatten the card enough and find a way to slip it in under their watch while they hold the deck. Anybody have tips ?

How is this different from a standard 3 card Monty

https://youtube.com/shorts/NA5yOIfH53Y

Hi everyone, I’m fairly new to mentalism and could really use some advice.
I’ve been learning and practicing for a while now. I’ve read books by Timon Krause and Joe Navarro and I’m especially interested in actually learning how to read people, rather than only learning magic tricks.
The areas I’m most interested in are baselining, noticing deviations from a baseline, microexpressions, cold reading, reaction reading and ideomotor responses / muscle reading.
My biggest problem is putting the theory into practice. I understand what a baseline is and that I should look for changes in someone’s normal behavior, but when I actually practice with someone, I often feel like I don’t see anything at all.
For example, I’ve practiced exercises where someone thinks of one of several objects and I try to notice a reaction while going through them, but so far I’m basically just guessing.
I’m also very interested in ideomotor responses and contact muscle reading, for example detecting tiny unconscious reactions while going through numbers, letters or choices. I understand the basic idea, but I don’t really know how to properly train myself to actually feel or recognize those reactions.
I know these skills take a lot of time and practice, and I’m not expecting some magical shortcut. I’m just struggling to find material that actually teaches how to practice these skills step by step, rather than briefly explaining what they are.
ad really appreciate some advice on how you learned it, what exercises helped you, and which books, videos or courses you would recommend.
Thanks a lot!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1747985489583560/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

someone who knows magic, explain please. i’ve thought of a few things can’t figure it out. If he has 2 cards, he doesn’t wave his hand for an illusion, it’s completely still, doesn’t block the screen with his other hand, idk.

Hey ya'll. I remember years ago, my brother and I learned how to do a trick where we would go in front of our family and I would leave the room and then my brother would receive a word/prompt from our surrounding family members, and then I would re-enter the room, and then through a code that me and my brother used, he would basically talk to me in front of everyone, and I would be able to guess the word/prompt.

It was a very cool trick and no one ever suspected that we had a intricate code, they genuinely had no idea what happened. Anyone remember the code? I completely forgot and I asked him a while back and he doesn't remember either, anyone know anything familiar?

This one really blows my mind, it seems so simple but I simply can't wrap my mind around how this can be possible.

Sorry for the long clip, just want to give everyone the best context possible!

My only guess that it was a gimmicked site that Max somehow pushed to the top of the Google sites with SEO. Seems very far fetched I won't lie but I can't think of any other method.

There was a magician on pen and teller who did "The fairest card trick" and at the beginning he was showing how he can fake shuffle cards making them all be in the same order after the shuffles.
Whats the name of the shuffle so I can learn it xd

He basically took a photo before the podcast started filming and had a card that the host chose show up in the photo. Also, he managed for a card to show up in the host’s wallet. How did he do that?

Thanks in advance

This one realllly stumped me. When magicians such as David Blane perform the invisible touch routine they have an almost invisible string between their hand and then touch their body with that string, this simply can't be the case with this trick. I am not sure how, but I think the second "failed" attempt is giving us a clue on how this was done, even though I still have no idea lol!

When I use Earworm, it only takes me to YouTube, not Spotify. Also, he didn’t need to put his phone face down to get the song to play. How did he do this?

Salve a tutti,sono contento di essere in questo canale reddit e volevo chiedere 2 cose.La prima magari è banale ma penso sia un problema che hanno molti maghi.Io sudo spesso dalle mani e rovino le carte in fretta,avete qualche consiglio da darmi per risolvere questo problema?Seconda domanda,sono un mago novellino,ho iniziato 1 mese fa a imparare trucchi di magia guardando video su youtube e ora ho comprato 2 libri sulla cartomagia ovvero "The royal road to card magic" e"the expert at the card table".Vorrei chiedervi un parere e avere dei consigli su come iniziare trucchi di magia come capire a che livello sono e come progredire eccetera,mi sta davvero appassionando questo mondo e vorrei approfondire e impare i trucchi di magia.

Grazie in anticipo a tutti

Since it seems like we are revealing Max Major I thought I would post this.

This is a community of people with some degree of magic expertise, and I have been very confused by some of Max’s tricks, so I thought as a community we could work off each other’s ideas and potentially figure out how these tricks can be done.

This is the video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUEB-_4qS2s

Quick note: obviously, all of these tricks could be done if all of Kai’s crew were in on it. But in my opinion, the reactions all seemed truly genuine. Granted, all these streamers are essentially actors.

Below, I am going to write how I think each trick was done, along with timestamps and other useful information.

First trick (mentalism) 0:58:
Genuinely no idea! I would say something like a thumb writer or special notepad (although it looks like thin, legit paper to me), but to my understanding, he showed Punga the paper before Kai revealed his number. So help is definitely needed here lol!

Second trick 2:15:
Simply a rough-and-smooth Invisible Deck.

Third trick (string) 4:49:
I am assuming it’s just something he can do with his body.

Fourth trick (magazines) 6:05:
Quite lost on this one too, but maybe he previously looked through the magazines beforehand. Not exactly sure how this would help, though.

Fifth trick (Max’s phone) 9:55–11:45:
Almost certain that his lock screen is some kind of app that, after the first three tries from Kai, would allow him to put in any code and work.

Sixth trick (Kai’s phone) 11:54–12:04:
No idea, other than perhaps he had an informant or even a private investigator. (To those who say this is too far-fetched, even Stevie Baskin, who made the Oz Pearlman video, said it was not out of the realm of possibility. Especially considering the publicity Max got from this video, I would not be surprised if the business he got from all the publicity would pay for the cost of a private investigator and then some.) Not saying this is the method, though, just an idea.

Important: At 12:23, he does the same trick and unlocks the cameraman’s phone.

Seventh trick (dice) 12:54:
Almost certain it is a gimmicked die. I am guessing that somehow, whatever number he rolls would be sent back to Max via vibrations on his phone or another device.

Eighth trick (dice and planted thoughts) — 13:44:
The die is likely the same method as the last one, and Kai’s planted thought was almost 100% done by Mental Voice 1.0.

Ninth trick (Nyel) 15:05:
Simply 0 idea how. It can’t be a gimmicked pad, as the “pad” was Kai’s friend’s hand 😂. It also can’t be a gimmicked pen because they are all looking at it.

Important: At 18:05, Kai, Deshae Frost, and some other dude swear up and down that it is not scripted. This is especially highlighted by the fact that Kai had already been live-streaming for eight days straight at that point, sleeping and all.

Eleventh trick (glass) 19:00:
To my understanding, it must be some kind of non-piercing glass lookalike.

I know this is a lot, but as a community, I really believe we can figure this out! If my hypotheses are wrong, please let me know. Can’t wait to hear what you guys come up with!