I have been doing mentalism for 10 years now.
Had much success with things like Isabella's
Star, Train Tracking by Atlas Brookings, a tonne of Mnemonic works and some of Peter Turner's other
releases.
I managed to land a success 3 times using this method. Which is great! Great,
considering I failed about 40 times around those 3 hits.
I have workshopped this to the
bone with other mentalists in my city as well, fearing that it was me that was the problem. The %'s
just haven't increased no matter what we do.
It just doesn't hit. I often get oddball
answers like spider, television, chicken or butterfly... to name a few. This leaves me falling back
on other methods like the previously mentioned train tracking or my handy Informant wallet.
Gave 2 points out of 5 because the idea is not entirely terrible. Learning this method might
unlock some other ideas for you.
Update: Created my own effect using the same basic idea, but expanded it to include a total of 50 possible drawings rather than being limited to 17.
The amount of questions asked does not change, the complexity does not change, but it now covers the less common results, such as spider (very common in Australia for some reason) or guitar (another very common result here for some reason).
I have gotten rid of any anagram work entirely, it feels a lot better not pumping for letters.
I am glad I picked up the method in the end, although it has taken me months of thinking to get it to where it is. I have had a lot of failures and embarrassing moments covered by other surefire methods, but have stood on the foundations of Phedon's work to make it even better.
