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Stone Cold Mental Vol. 3 - paperback

Jeff Stone

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Stone Cold Mental Vol. 3

Join me as I continue to share with you my personal collection of mentalism effects and routines from the past decade and a half or so.

In Volume Three you'll find a wide variety of routines, including effects with ESP cards, Tarot cards, and themes relating to fate, dreams, celebrity crushes, jellybeans (yep, jellybeans!) and a whole bunch more.

Plus, you'll get full access to a custom web app that lets you create your own forcing matrix along with an anagram generator, and a couple of other goodies including print outs of one of the props you'll need.

Continue with me on the journey to de-boring-ify your mentalism. After all, why be boring when you can be Stone Cold Mental!

A Face off at the Cafe
A weird venture into the land of the magician's dream where the spectator's decide what your dream was about, and they're right, and you have undeniable proof!

Into the Void
Somehow the spectator makes four completely free choices, yet without using multiple outs, or equivoque, the mental meddler has predicted the exact outcome. The spectators, themselves, can reveal the prediction without the mentalist intervening at all. Did I mention that all the choices are free?

J-HI
A random number is chosen (free choice). Then a couple of spectators decide on random mathematical operations to make on the number, yet the brain-buster has 100% correctly predicted the outcome, and in an unexpected twist, the final number predicted turns out to be the spectator's last four digits of her phone number!

The Accountant
The classic "guess how many jellybeans are in the jar" game is the centerpiece of this effect as 5 spectators decide together how many jellybeans are in a jar. There is no force, and there is no mathematical manipulation of the numbers, yet they always 100% guess the correct number of jellybeans.

Someone Else's Fate
Two spectators who know, love, and trust each other are asked to help decide the other's fate. Along for the ride the magician gives a brief Tarot reading and knows exactly what fate was chosen.

Tarot-able Teens
This is a weird one. It's a prediction of three Tarot cards that can be just a fun silly routine about parents raising teenagers or it can be a super serious routine that can give a parent a new outlook on life.

Celebrity Crush
The magician helps a husband and wife couple find out which celebrities have a crush on them. The spectators shuffle a stack of celebrities, and while the magician's back is turned pick an unknown celebrity, yet the magician was able to predict which two would be chosen for each other.

Blank Nightarot
This is a handling and extra twist to the so called "Bank Night" (Actually Tom Seller's It's Only Chance effect from the 1930's) plot, with something extra that ties the entire show together, and with an ending the is completely the opposite of almost every "Bank Night" routine.

Elastic Sensory Perception
The magician demonstrates his rubber band artistry by reshaping three rubber bands into various ESP shapes chosen by the spectator with a kicker ending where the rubber bands permanently maintain their new shape, and the spectator can keep the newly shaped rubber band.

Extra Squares Perception
The spectator chooses an ESP card (a circle, for example). Then a prediction is read out loud. "You will not choose the square." Of course, the spectator laughs (because although silly, the prediction is accurate - the spectator chose the circle, i.e., not a square). Then, as a kicker, the rest of the cards are shown. They are all squares. The spectator chose the only card that is not a square.

Reviews

Stephan Sloan

Official Reviewer

Oct 03, 2024

Overview

Stone Cold Mental Volume 3 continues Jeff Stone’s quest to “deborify” mentalism. Growing up, I and I’m sure millions of other kid’s still now, hated math and found it to be excruciatingly boring. Now, what can be worse than combining mentalism and math? Under normal conditions, you would say “Yaaaaawn”, close your eyes, roll over and go to sleep. But wait, don’t pull the blanket over your head just yet. Math like mentalism can be fun and deceiving as well. In Stone Cold Mental V3, Jeff Stone does all the heavy lifting for you. What you get for your hard earned simoleons are thirteen mathematically based routines where you don’t even do the math. The math is automatic and neither you or anyone else will even know. Ok, I lied, on one trick you have to do basic addition but it’s in your head. If you don’t use your fingers and toes, nobody will ever now.

Effect

In this volume there is a plethora of effects using ESP cards, Tarot cards, Alphabet cards, jellybeans and even rubber bands. Effects range from predictions to psychic readings. There is a vast array of “stuff” to please all kinds of mentalists from the downright serious to comedic.

Method

Most are the methods are mathematically based from using matrices to algorithms. However, don’t sweat the math stuff, Stone has you covered. For most of the routines the math is constructed within the framework of the effect. For example, just by laying out cards in a grid like pattern and using a sensible elimination process, you can predict the outcome of seemingly random choices.

Product Quality

The book is 146 pages packed solid with effects, explanations, diagrams and other fun stuff for you to perform effects that not only makes you look like a miracle worker but no one else performs. In addition to, numerous solid routines there are nine URL links to such things as an anagram generator, matrix forcing generator, alphabet card printing, celebrity lists and other reference sites that you can use to personalize your presentation. Is there a birthday you would like to highlight in a routine? Jeff Stone’s matrix force generator can help you do that.

Ad Copy Integrity

From the scion of ad copy integrity you will not get what Jeff Stone claims you will get but you will get more. Ad copy integrity is a cornerstone of My Lovely Assistant’s existence and you will be pleased with what is delivered.

Final Thoughts

The Stone Cold mental series are new to me and since I have been reviewing them, I have to say, I am always impressed not just with the ideas presented but the added value Jeff Stone provides with all his online programs for use as long as you wish. It’s all free just for purchasing the book. In addition, I find gratifying is the references provided on the history of the effect or the predecessors of the effect.
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