Mick Ayres – Hoodwinkings (Book One in Act-Series) (Instant Download)

Unleash Your Inner Mentalist with Hoodwinkings

Step into the world of professional mindreading with Mick Ayres' Hoodwinkings, the captivating first installment in the acclaimed Act-Series. This instant download delivers a meticulously crafted, 30-minute parlor act designed for maximum impact and minimal preparation. Forget complex setups and intricate sleights – Hoodwinkings provides a seamless sequence of powerful mental demonstrations, woven together with engaging humor, genuine audience interaction, and an undeniable air of mystery. It's an entire professional show, compact enough to fit in your pocket, yet robust enough to leave audiences utterly astonished.

The Act: A Journey into the Mind

The Hoodwinkings act unfolds with elegance, beginning with an seemingly innocuous prop adjustment that cleverly becomes a pivotal element of its surprising finale. Throughout the performance, you'll harness the power of the mind using just an ordinary household deck of cards. Witness a guest's bewilderment as you predict the exact final order of a shuffled packet. Marvel as another participant taps into their own latent mental abilities, unerringly locating two selected cards from a thoroughly mixed deck. You'll then share a humorous peek into the subtleties of body language, adding an entertaining layer of 'inside information' for your audience. The grand finale culminates in a breathtaking display of prescience, as you accurately predict random answers to a series of questions, each more challenging than the last. Each routine is strong enough to stand alone, but together they form an exceptionally coherent and powerful show.

Effortless Professionalism

Mick Ayres has engineered Hoodwinkings for the working performer. One of its most significant advantages is the absolute absence of sleight-of-hand or any gimmicked props. You supply only a standard deck of cards, three envelopes, and three index cards – items easily found or carried. This makes the act incredibly practical, allowing you to focus purely on presentation and connecting with your audience. Thousands of performances have refined this material to 'Zen-like perfection,' ensuring that every script and every moment is polished, entertaining, and utterly real. Whether you're a seasoned pro or aspiring mentalist, Hoodwinkings offers a truly masterclass experience in captivating an audience and holding them spellbound.

Original Specs

• Hoodwinkings offers several strong mindreading experiments woven together into a seamless, 30-minute parlor act full of humor, interaction and mystery.

  The show begins with an innocent prop adjustment that later becomes part of this act’s surprising finale.  In between, you demonstrate the potential of the mind using a household deck of cards for each experiment.  First, a packet of cards is mixed by a guest…nonetheless, you have predicted its final order.  Next, a guest discovers her own untapped mental abilities when she unerringly locates two selections from a shuffled pack.  Now you share a bit of ‘inside information’ while the audience enjoys a humorous demonstration of body-language.  Finally, the show closes as you accurately predict the random answers to several questions…and each question is twice as challenging as the one before!

  Although each routine would stand easily on it’s own, together they create a powerful show that fits in one pocket.  You supply a deck of cards, three envelopes and three index cards.  No sleight-of-hand is involved.  Nothing is gimmicked.

• “Mick’s [Act series] is a true masterclass on bringing the audience into your world…and keeping them there as you seamlessly progress from one routine to the next. It is fresh, entertaining, and real…not to mention polished and refined in thousands and thousands of performances. No pipe dreams, no theoretical pieces, it is all real worker material, refined and scripted to a Zen-like perfection.”