Max Maven’s Exploring the Zone with The Da Vinci Zone custom gimmick set

While supplies last, we’ll send you the ORIGINAL full-color first-edition of Max Maven’s Exploring the Zone from our secret stash of mint-condition copies.

Off the market for years, now again available!
Includes two cueing devices
Professionally custom-made
Elegant black storage box with fitted lid and elastic holders

Package includes Max Maven’s 16 pp. Exploring the Zone manual packed with information
Presentation and technique illustrations
Max Maven’s advice for book tests and process mentalism
Complete explanation of The Da Vinci Zone effect
Bonus effects and routines
(Note: Use your own hardbound copy of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.)

For mentalists, book test performers, and stage/parlor magicians. 

Todd Karr created The Da Vinci Zone in 2006 as a way to use an ungimmicked copy of Dan Brown’s famed novel The Da Vinci Code for a mind-blowing book test.

Anywhere the spectator opens a normal copy of The Da Vinci Code, you can divine the first word, another word on the first line, or the whole concept of the first line: very direct, simple, and high-impact.

The effect involves a custom-made cueing gimmick that looks like an ordinary object in plain sight throughout the routine yet remains unsuspected by the spectators.

You can have someone open his own copy of The Da Vinci Code at his home, or one he picks up as you walk through a bookstore.

In a formal show, of course, the routine works beautifully, and you can even end by letting the spectator keep the book, since it’s ungimmicked.

The gimmicks are accompanied by Exploring the Zone, Max Maven’s manual for The Da Vinci Zone, in which Maven examines audience handling, page selection, the dramatic use of concepts versus words, page number choices, guiding the spectator to key words, process mentalism, progressive revelation, ambiguous fishing, handling misses, statement timing, focusing devices, and more insightful viewpoints. Max also includes thoughts on a conceptual book test approach, how to handle lackluster word choices, various types of forces for books, and how to use Dan Brown’s original ungimmicked The Da Vinci Code novel as a force book.