The Progressive Kicker by Michael O'Brien (The Time Machine, Hard Cover)

"This is the best Book Test I have ever seen!"
- Jack Goldfinger, Entertainment Director at the World Famous Magic Castle

The Book Test is a classic mentalism gem. Your volunteer thinks of a word on a page, and you somehow pluck that word from the ether. Michael O'Brien's Progressive Book Test makes it a doddle—no memorisation required, just pure magic that’s perfect for the working performer.

Michael’s crafted these books with a clarity that’s downright refreshing. You’ll be able to divine any word your participant has in mind without any of that pesky fishing, guessing, or endless questioning. The book practically hands you the answer on a silver platter! Plus, it’s user-friendly enough so your spectator won’t break into a sweat on stage!

Many book tests have you memorising a laundry list of words, which is a recipe for disaster under performance pressure. With the Progressive Book Test, you can forget all that nonsense—there’s absolutely NO memorisation. The book lays out exactly what your participants are thinking!
Reading minds can be a bit of a snooze if it’s too samey. Thankfully, the Progressive Book Test comes packed with a variety of routines and variations across several popular titles to keep things fresh for both you and your audience. You can perform routines solo or weave them together for a seamless act that builds in impossibility and excitement!

The introduction of "The Kicker Book Test" means even more fun, allowing you to create a fully customised experience for your audience. Predict a word before they even think of it, put a bullet hole through a page, make a page disappear, and more! And the cherry on top? You can do it all hands-off!

What methods are included?

• Flashback - Know the first word of any page without needing to force the page or even know the page number.
• Flashforward - Know a word on the first line of the next page. Again, without needing to force the page or even know the page number.
• Inception - Rather than fish for a thought of word, you can plant the word you want in the spectator's mind instead! Surefire! Simple! Clean!
• Any Word on Any Page - Allow the spectator to choose a word from anywhere in the book. You don't even need to be holding the book. It can be done completely hands-off!
  No peeking, forcing, or guessing! You can be in the other room when the word is chosen!
  It is so clean!
• The Progressive Book Test - Use a single book to divine 3 thought of words from three different parts of the book at once! Again, no fishing, forcing, or guessing! You instantly know all three words as soon as the spectator chooses a page. Each word gets progressively bigger and more impossible to know!
• Tossed Out Book - Toss out one or multiple books and read 6 spectators' minds at once! Again, nothing to memorise and the words can be chosen from anywhere on the page making this one of the cleanest TOB routines out there!
• Hands-Free Forcing - Force a word or a specific page without needing to touch the book!
• The Kicker Ending - Reveal a thought of word without asking a single question, predict a thought of word before it is even chosen, shoot a bullet or arrow right through the spectator's word, make a page vanish and appear in an impossible location, and more!