Jimmy Finger - Inconceivable
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The miracle is now available!  A revolutionary technique for telling a large group of people what each one was thinking, without the use of any gimmicks, stooging or preshow work.
This may be the best thing that I've ever come up with, and it's extremely effective.
Four or five borrowed business cards with blank backs are torn in half, creating a large group of squares.  These are distributed throughout the audience to people who have never met the mind reader. The audience members are asked to write on the blank sides of the squares anything in the world that is not a living thing. Another audience member who has no affiliation with the performer collects the squares and stacks them, randomly, face down on his right open palm. He holds his hands in front of himself as if he were holding a tray.  He becomes the stage table, so to speak.
The performer waves his hand over the top of the stack, and names the contents of the first card, without seeing or even touching the square itself.  He picks it up, and verifies with the creator of that square that the answer was correct, and discards it by starting a discard pile on his left hand.  He moves on, and continues to name the words off of the squares until only one spectator is remaining.  He turns his back on the onstage helper, and asks him to completely mix up the squares again, so that there is no possibility of him giving ANY clues to the performer.  Then, he is asked to hold the cards tightly between his hands, as if he were praying.  There is no way to see, feel, smell, taste or hear the cards in any way.  This time the performer goes directly to the remaining spectator, and reveals the contents of his card, without any closeness to the squares or possibility of any kind of contact.  The cards are distributed by the helper to the audience, and all written information is verified immediately.
This is shockingly direct, perfect mind reading.  It uses several principles and new subtleties to execute the impossible without the usual necessary 'dirty' work like preshow or stooging.
"Really nice thinking! I've always loved multiple methods such as this one that you've come up with. Funny thing is that many years ago I put a similar idea on a thread on the Cafe...  Nice work. Hopefully your readers will do it justice." - Greg A