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THE NEW tEXICON PHENOMENA
FOREWORD
The Lexicon Phenomena test was presented
at the M.A.E.S. convention in Atlantic City
in 1977. It stunned the audience but no one
believed what they saw. They said that the
spectator was a confederate.
In Columbus, Ohio, a lady fainted while
mentalist Bobby Hughes performed his expert
presentation of the Lexicon Phenomena.
The system used in the LP test has alrea-
dy been applied to a number of foreign langua-
ges. One foreign power confiscated the LP and
no doubt studied it as a possible weapon in
espionage. Imagine two foreign agents commu-
nicating in code by the use of a dictionary
and without knowing or coming near each otherl
Take heed, Gentlemen, the Lexicon Pheno-
mena is great. Do not undersell it and above
all do not expose it.
It is the duty of every mentalist to en-
tertain his audiences with baffling feats of
deep mystery and the Lexicon Phenomena is a
good start.
Best Wish
Many thanks, for their well wishes,
advice and assistance in perfecting
the Lexicon Phenomena, tOI Ralph
S. Athey, Larry Becker, Art Emerson,
Karl Fulves, Mario Graziosi, Bobby
Huges and John Smetana and all the
subscribers to the AME series for their kind comments.
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THE NEW LEXICON PHENOMENA
COPYRIGHT by Al Mann Exclusives
Compliments and congratulations are in order for
the buyer of this effect in his excellent choice of mate-
rial. You have just bought a potent secret. A baffling
brain buster. PLEASE KEEP IT A SECRET
****
You have received an ungimmicked dictionary, a book
of power words titled "Enrich Your Word Power" and this
book of instructions. Only the new buyer will know the se-
cret, because only the owner will have the key to the mys-
tery, which is the prompter list with the code numbers!
The dictionary and the book of power words are useless
without the 'key.'
THE EFFECT, One, two or three spectators are asked
to secretly choose words from a book that contains thousands
of words. They may take the book into another room, or into
another city to choose their words. They need not write or
repeat the words to anyonel
Immediately the mentalist divines one of the words,
without anything being said by the spectators. The performer
instructs the other two spectators to look up the meaning
of the other two words in a dictionary in order to assist
the performer is this most difficult test. The mentalist
divines the words although nothing has been written or said
and the performer has never approached the spectators. The
mentalist has cautioned the spectators to keep a good dis-
tance away from himl all during the test.
Gentlemen, this is the strongest book test extant.
The dictionary is totally ungimmicked and is not a specially
printed dictionary. It is an ordinary dictionary that can be
bought in stationery stores. As will be seen later, any other
dictionary can be used in conjunction with the LP dictionary
which means that the host or hostess can furnish their own
dictionary to be used in the test.
THE SECRET OF SECRETS, Since nothing has been written
or said, the mentalist has no way of telling what words have
been secretly chosen BUT amazingly enough, the spectators
themselves tell the mentalist what their choice was by un-
knowingly coding the words to the mentalist by a 'body lan-
guage' that only the mentalist can interpret!
The performer therefor, must be in a position from
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THE LEXICON PHENOMENA
AN AL MANN EXCLUSIVE
where he can see what the spectator is doing as he looks up
the meaning of the word in the dictionary. Much depends on
the performer's eye sight. 10 feet is a good distance to be
away from the spectators but 30 feet or more is also possi-
ble.
In order to understand the method we must first get
acquainted with the secret prompter list and its code num-
bers that only the performer knows about and your audience
will never see as this list is hidden on your person.
Fig. 1 shows a small section of the prompter list.
code numbers./'l
2343
2344
list number
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135. divot, rattler, vainglory
136. dory, razz, valet
Fig. 1
The four-digit code numbers in your prompter list
are the important ones. Code number
~343will
tell you that
the spectators have secretly chosen the three words on line
number 135 in the "Enrich Your Word Power" booklet.
The first person chose the word "divot" the second
person chose "rattler" and the third person chose "vainglory."
Only the first two spectators need
~ook
up their
chosen words as once the performer knows the correct first
two words he will also know the third word!
The 'list' numbers that appear in the booklet are of no
value to the mentalist and must be ignored in the presentation
as the lines of words are repeated under different list numbers.
Each numbered line in the booklet has three or more
words to it. Some lines have 4 words. In the presentation,
the number of words per line is never mentioned. The specta-
tors are instructed to think of the line and all the words
on it only.
THE CODE NUMBERS: The first digit of the code number
is all important. In Fig. 1, the first digit is a "2."·
The first spectator codes this first digit to the per-
former (without' knowing it, of course) as soon as he opens the
dictionary to look up his word. In this case the performer
notices that the spectator has opened the dictionary to sec-
tion "2" (as will be explained shortly) and therefor the per-
former knows that the three words will appear in section "2"
of the prompter list and immediately removes that section of
the list from his pocket in the act of taking out a small wri-
ting pad to make notes.
A TRIAL RUN: Let's take a case in sample. We will use
three spectators and designate them as No.1, 2 and 3. They have
secretly chosen a line in the booklet and we do not know at
this time what line they have chosen.
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THE LEXICON PHENOMENA
A TRIAL RUN. cont
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AN AL MANN EXCLUSIVE
Performer informs spectator No.
3
that he already knows
the word he chose as it came to him in a flash and that he will
shortly tell him so please dismiss it out of his mind.
When spectator No. 1 is told to look up his word in the
dictionary he will open up the book to one of the five sections
as shown in the diagrams in Fig. 2.
Section
1,
The bulk of the
pages of the dictionary are
to your left with only a
few pages to the right (12
or less). The spectator is
looking up his word in the
first section of the dic-
tionary. The diagrams are
as seen by the performer.
Section
21
About
3/4
of
the pages are to the left
and 1/4 to the right.
I.
fi2
2.
Section
31
The pages are
equally divided left and
right at about the center
of the book.
Section
4, 3/4
of the pa-
ges are to the right and
1/4 to the left.
Section
5.
This is the op-
posite of Section 1, with
the bulk of the pages to the
right and just a few pages
to the left. Here the first
word is in the last section
of the dictionary.
There is no way to mistake
the various sections of the
dictionary. They are very
easy to spot as will be seen
in actual practice.
All the words in
have been chosen
five sections of
tionary, and can not be found in any other parts except
sections as indicated in Fig. 2.
Fig. 2
the booklet
from the
the LP dic-
in these

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