Difference between revisions of "Forcing Book"

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Forcing Book is a specially printed book used in mind-reading Book Tests meant to look like an ordinary book.

W.P. Huntington's Cheeky Chat: A Versebook (1904)
William W. Durbin's New Spirit Verse Book (published by Thayer) (1919)
Murder By Magic, book test by Gerald Kaufman & Royal V. Heath (1933)
Mother Goose Mystery, by Martin Gardner (used a book titled Favorite Mother Goose Rhymes, 1941, later reprinted in 1953)
Richard Himber's $1,000 Challenge (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Apr. 1951)
Cyclops Book Test, by Jack Chanin (1958)
Arthur Setterington's Pass the Salt (1965)
Anthony Raven's The Necromantic Grimoire of Augustus Rupp (1974),
Sam Dalal's My Favorite Verse (1976) - a collection of limericks
John Cornelius's The Magician's Date Book (1981).
Blind Man’s Bluff, a dictionary test by Ray Piatt (then a.k.a. Magic Makers, from the 1970s or 80s)
Ultra Magazine & Book Test by El Duco (1986)
Would, Could, Should force book by Penn & Teller (a supplement to their book Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends (1989))

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 * Richard Himber's ''$1,000 Challenge'' (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Apr. 1951)
 * ''Cyclops Book Test'', by Jack Chanin (1958)
-* Arthur Setterington's ''Pass the Salt'' (c1966)
+* Arthur Setterington's ''Pass the Salt'' (1965)
 * Anthony Raven's ''The Necromantic Grimoire of Augustus Rupp'' (1974),
 * Sam Dalal's ''My Favorite Verse'' (1976) - a collection of limericks