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PYO

Christopher, Dee

The 1914

(Based on 1 review)
"You should be charging WAY more for this!!"
Alan Rorrison (Consultant for Dynamo & Troy TV shows)

"Smart and revolutionary."
Pablo Amira (AmirasIdeas.com)

"I'm adding this to my act, and I hardly EVER add new material. BRAVO!!"
Morgan Strebler (Creator of Liquid Metal)

The book test is a classic in mentalism and mental magic. Every professional show demonstrating the power of mind reading should include a solid book test as a staple.

Usually book tests that go beyond a simple "think of a word" routine involve expensive, specially printed books that will tarnish and tear over time. When you purchase the PYO Book Test, you get everything you need to print your own copies of this book test for extremely minimal cost and the added bonus of performing an astounding book test with your smartphone too.

So what's the effect?With PYO, you take a book, or a number of different books, and have a spectator turn to any page. They will read silently the first paragraph. As they read, you will begin to pick up impressions; you'll tell them specific things the character is experiencing, whether it's a male or female voice that you're picking up on, and more. Finally, the spectator is to focus on just a single word. You then read their mind and tell them the word they are merely thinking about.

Features: Single of multiple spectators can be used. Examinable books. Works 100%, every time. No chance of failure. Instant reset & repeatable with different results. It feels like you can see through your spectator's eyes and can describe exactly what they're seeing. Multiple books can be used, or just one book for a streamlined performance. When the book gets a bit destroyed from lots of performances, you can just print another - No more need to buy expensive replacement books! The PDFs you receive can also be loaded on your smartphone, for a full book test routine on the fly!What You Receive:

When you purchase PYO, you will receive the following items sent directly via instant delivery to your email address: Instructions: This will explain the effect, the method, performance and how to easily print book-store grade quality books (glossy, perfect bound) for a low price, with no minimum order. 1x Book Interior PDF: These files can be printed as normal books using the instructions, or you can put them on your smartphone or tablet for a casual book test on the fly. This can be fully edited at your digression. (Just in case you want to change the title/authors for a joke you use or add/remove anything or even change the size!) Multiple Book Covers: With multiple covers, you can choose what you want your book test books to look like and can use multiple books at once! (5x professionally designed book covers with imagery, bar codes and synopsis are included) Editable Content: Includes fully editable content. As well as the print-ready files, you will also receive an easy to edit word document of the book interior and ALL of the book covers as PSD files to edit in photoshop if you so wish. This is not a necessity, but an added bonus for the creative types!

Reviews

Stuart Philip

Official Reviewer

Feb 05, 2023

Overview

The PYO book test is something that I have not seen before. I love the idea and the flexibility of this book test. PYO stands for "print your own" and you get a data disc with the book test in word and pdf. You get every part of the book needed to print and a reference to a website that can print the book test inexpensively.

Although I personally don't love the text of this book test, what I love is that you can have a spectator choose any page from any number of books you print and after they read it, you can do a standard book test word divination, but also tell them about the page they just read, if the author of one of many short stories was a man or a woman and other random information.

The book is not large, about 100 pages, so that may raise some suspicion after you elicit the page number of the book.

I must disclose that I did not and will not print any books because this is not up my alley. For some it will be and can be very powerful and spooky.

You can also completely customize the book test because you can edit the text on any page before you order a book to be printed.

There is a bit of memory work, which is a turnoff for me, but there is also a crib included which makes it effortless.

Effect

A spectator takes a book, the performer knows what the spectator is feeling after they read any page they want. And, as described above, the performer can call out many details about the randomly selected page.

Method

Well, if I could tell you the method, then it wouldn't be a secret now would it? Its a book test and some things are not new and borrowed from others, but you will have to buy it to learn the secret.

Product Quality

I can't vouch for the end product - the printed book - but the cover pages are very well done. The text for each individual book page has very large font and does not look like a mainstream printed book to me.

Ad Copy Integrity

The ad copy makes many very large claims and has quotes from top mentalists. I believe that the ad copy is accurate and you can do what is promised.
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