Manoeda

BY: Ever Elizalde.

Copyright © Ever Elizalde 2015

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 Introduction

Hi there. My name is Ever Elizalde and I’m a professional mentalist

who lives and works (and was born) in Mexico.

Some of you may know me from internet forums, some of you may
not. Either case, I want to say Thank You for purchasing this little E-
Book, which is my very first release and must admit that I’m very
excited about it.

What you are about to learn here, is nothing less than my take on a
classic: Which Hand.

What? What do you mean there’s a lot of which hands out there? I’m
sure there are, but tell me, How many of those which hands can you
actually do without a coin?

That’s right. This is a which hand routine that doesn’t require the use
of an actual coin (or any other prop, for that matter.) Interested now?
Glad to hear it, please, read on.

By the way, if you are wondering what the hell does “Manoeda”
means, you can join the club, because I don’t know either. But it
sounds cool doesn’t it?

Now, please follow me to the next room.

 Effect and Presentation

The mentalist selects a random spectator to help him.

Have you ever played that game where you hide a coin in any of your hands
and someone else tries to guess where is hidden? We are going to play that
game. However, it is going to be a bit more difficult, as we’re going to play
with an imaginary coin.

Here, take this coin. (The mentalist gesticulates as if he were handing a

real coin)

I’m going to turn back, and you’re going to hide the coin in any of your
hands. Or you can decide to hide it in your pocket, “leaving your hands
empty” trying to fool me.

And once you’re done, I want you to extend both hands with tight fists in
front of you, just as if we were playing with a real coin. And please don’t do
anything that could give away where you decided to hide the coin. Are you
ready? Good.

The mentalist turns away and the participant hides the coin.

Done? Perfect, I’m going to try to find out where the coin is.

To do that, I’m going to ask you a very simple Yes/No question, and you can
decide if you tell me the truth, or if you lie. It’s completely up to you. I’m
going to try to read your mind to know if you are being truthful or not… As I
said before, this may not work if you’re not willing to help me, so, let’s work
together.

Are you ready? Good. The first question I’m going to ask you is… mmm… Is
the coin in any of your hands?

-Yes.

Interesting… Ok, I’m feeling something… but I can’t quite discern what this
is… Ok, I’m going to ask you one more question. To get a stronger feeling this
time, if you lied to me in the first question, lie to me again. If you told me the
truth, tell me the truth again...Just don’t do anything that may give you away.

Let’s see…Is the coin… in your left hand?

-Yes.

Hmmm…Al right… It certainly is a bit clearer now; this feeling is getting

stronger and stronger. You are doing wonderful!

This is the last thing I need you to do… If the coin is in your right hand, put
it in your pocket, or if it already was in your pocket just put it in your left
hand. However this is just to make it a bit more random.

Have you done that? Good.

When I snap my fingers, I want you to mentally tell me where you have the
coin. Don’t say anything out loud and don’t give me any clue, just think
about it.

(Snap!) One more time… (Snap!)

Interesting, I can see that the coin… Is not in your…pocket… It’s definitely
not in your… right hand… and I’m a 100% sure that the coin is in your left
hand!

The participant agrees.

 Method

I would like to thank Leo Boudreau and Banachek, as the authors that
inspired me to create this effect. We all stand on the shoulders of
giants.

As you may have (or not) already guessed, the secret lies in the two
questions in which the participant can either lie or tell the truth.

We’ll put a value to the spectator’s answers: Yes= 1 and No=2.

We just have to do a simple addition and we’ll have an answer.

If the participants‘s answer to our first question is “Yes” in our heads

we’ll say “1”

If the second answer is “No” In our heads we’ll say “2” and we just
have to make the math 1 + 2= 3.

A 3 means that the coin is in the participant’s RIGHT HAND, and this
is sure-fire.

If you happen to get a 3, you instantly now where the coin is and you
can end the effect in any way you like.

If you get any other number (2 or 4) it means that the coin is either in
the participant’s left hand or in his pocket, but we’ll know for sure that
the coin is NOT in his right hand, and we’ll take advantage of that.

Once we know that the coin is not in his right hand, we’ll say this:

Hmmm…Al right… It certainly is a bit clearer now; this feeling is getting

stronger and stronger. You are doing wonderful!

This is the last thing I need you to do… If the coin is in your right hand, put
it in your pocket, or if it already was in your pocket just put it in your
left hand. However this is just to make it a bit more random.
This script allows us to force the coin to always end up in the
participant’s LEFT HAND. (The part of the script wrote in bold letters,
needs to be said in a casual manner, to not cause any suspicions)

And now you can reveal that in any way you like.

And that’s basically it.

It took me quite a few months to develop this routine as it is right

know, and I’m very happy to share it with you.

I hope you have found this at best useful and at worst, interesting.

You are allowed to perform this effect anywhere and anyhow you like,
but I keep all marketing rights.

I hope you have enjoyed it.

But wait!! We’re not done yet. Please, follow me to the next room.
 Some Ideas

I recommend you force a coin at the beginning via equivoque (if you
want to keep it completely prop-less) and hand a prediction to your
participant before you start the routine. The prediction will read like
this:

By my first impressions of you, I’m sure you’ll play with a

Penny
-Ever
Of course, you would have forced a penny before.

My suggestion (and something I’ve been doing successfully) is forcing

one coin out of three. That way the equivoque is simple and is still very
powerful.

I’m not going to explain how to do an equivoque force of one coin out
of three, as I’m sure you have your preferred way to do it.

Using three participants.

This is something I would do onstage.

The idea is using three participants instead of the three original

positions (right hand, left hand and pocket)

This way there’s more audience participation and you can even bring a
fourth participant to be the one who answers the two questions.

So, this is the way we do it:

Place three participants in a row (A, B and C, from left to right.) and a
fourth participant standing by your side, to act as a judge.

You give a coin to any of the three participants (this time it can be a
real coin, as it plays better this way on stage) then you turn back and
ask them to pass the coin around as you count to 10, and when you
stop counting they’ll stop and whoever has the coin will hide it in his
pocket. And everybody has to act normal and not give away anything.

You continue the routine using the method explained above and you
can (and must) build it up with your own presentation.

The only thing that would be different is the formulation of the

questions.

Instead of asking “Is the coin in any of your hands” you should ask the
fourth participant if the coin is with person A or person C (Which are
the ones that would correspond to the left hand and right hand, or, in
other words, Any of the hands) but of course- Call their by their
names(!)

And the last question would be: Does (Insert name of the person in
position C) have the coin?

Once you get the idea, you know how to proceed.

 Closing thoughts

Thank you for investing your time (and your money) into reading this,
which is my first published work.

I hope you liked it, and mostly, that you have found this useful.

If you did like this work, you can be sure that there’ll be more works
from where this came from! (Not exactly on which hand, I’m done
with that… for the moment.)

If you have any question or just feeling in the mood for a good chat,
you can write me at: everelizalde.info@gmail.com

Or, you can get in touch with me via Magic Café. I’m the user “E.E.”

Credits, Mentions and Acknowledgements

This is my favorite part. I couldn’t have done anything without the

help of the next folks:

(In strict alphabetical order)

ANDREU- For being a very good friend and helping me with the
routine from the very beginning, thank you bro.

BANACHEK- Hi Steve. This mention and credit is for your cool “Ring
of truth” which gave me inspiration to create this effect.

CERVIER (Jean Manuel-Maries) – For giving me some very good

suggestions and improvements for the routine. Without him, the
presentation would not be so good! So, thank you for that, you deserve
it.
IAIN- Thank you Dunford, for giving me the advice and the words I
needed, when I needed them. Next time I’ll put a photo of your arse
and re-sell this work for a €1000.

ITZEL- My beautiful wife. She is my go-to test subject, and once an

effect has amazed her, I know that effect is a good one. Thank you for
being with me and support this crazy man all the time.

LEO BOUDREAU- For your excellent effect “Lie to me” which also
was very inspiring for me.

OLIVER DOBBS- For designing the amazing logo you saw in the very
first page of this E-Book.

PAOLO CAVALLI- For being a good friend and a mentor for me. For
all your words of support and for being a great guy in general. You
deserve your mention here.

RYAN FRAME- For sharing with me that awesome book of yours

“Thoughts from the unknown” It was really helpful.