The Human Abacus

The Human Abacus By Sean Taylor and Richard Paddon

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The Human Abacus Is Perfect For The Parlour Or Stage Performer.

From the minds of Sean Taylor and Richard Paddon this brilliant effect is not only baffling and entertaining but lends itself perfectly to either a serious or light-hearted presentation. Whichever way you go with it the impact will be the same, HUGE!

Early in 2018 I purchased the rights to two effects from Sean, his Pi Book Test and Flash Addition routine. After playing with them for a while I realised that they fitted together beautifully together to form a brilliant multi-phased routine.

After a little brainstorming the Alakazam team came up with a few killer endings....

The Mental Mathematician

For your final feat of amazing mind-power your spectator just thinks of the digits as he inputs them in to the calculator and by reading his mind you can solve the sum.

The Sum Swami

You can prove that you predicted the final outcome well ahead of time.

And There’s More

Not only will you solve a huge sum before your spectator has even put the first line of digits into the calculator but you have even solved sum on the other side of the board!

Human Abacus Routine

The Book Test

You start by showing a book which contains the first 4,000 decimal positions of PI. Stating that you joined a book club which meets once a month, you were told you had to read The Life Of Pi for the next meeting. Unfortunately when you went to the meeting you were shown the error of your ways (but obviously by this time you had already read and digested the book!)

You offer the book out so your spectators can test you. Your spectator opens the book to any page, reads out any line of code but misses out the last digit, now (and with no memory work at all) you reveal the missing digit.

It now gets even harder for you, as your spectator chooses another page and reads out any line of code and misses out any one digit (so that is any digit from any line from any page) without batting an eyelid you can instantly know the missing digit (remember, no memory work or crib)

The Boards

After blowing their minds with the book you introduce 8 boards (each board is a column of 4 digits and they are double sided) You have your spectator choose any 3 of the boards and pop them in the stand. You hand them a calculator to work out the sum and the game is afoot, Man against machine!

No with no calculator or hidden devices you write down the answer. You can actually solve the sum in super human speed!

Everyone will be amazed BUT you up the game. You now have your spectator choose any 5 of the boards to create a sum, once again you solve this in super quick time (in fact you can solve it before they have even finished inputting the first line!) as you can imagine there are so many opportunities for gags and humour at this point.

As your grand finale you can choose any of the killer endings above!

Human Abacus comes complete with all the quality props you need.

The Custom designed book test, the handmade wooden stand, and the 8 high quality printed plastic boards.

You will absolutely love the Human Abacus and remember this is an effect you can learn in just minutes!!!

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Courtland LaVallee

Terrific routine and well-made props. Easy to do, but to be fully transparent, two of the three routines with the Pi Book require very basic math skills. How basic? I was literally able to do all three routines for my wife within 15 mins of receiving the product, and she loved it! Although there are some interesting ideas provided for the ending, I'm not sure either of them work for me so I will be continuing to think about how to wrap this up. Arthur Benjamin has some similar ideas in his course on Math and Magic, so maybe I'll find inspiration there. All in all, this is a top notch product with clear instructions and excellent props. It is versatile and leaves room for your own style, and it will play BIG!

Mark Call

WOW! Top quality props that will make you look like a 'math wizard' in a matter of minutes. I love being able to say I have memorized Pi to 4000 - and then prove it with the included "Life of Pi' book. Add in the table stand and numbers and you will be doing math faster than anyone in the room with a calculator. GREAT EFFECT that packs a punch plus leaves it open to add your own twists to the routine.

Steve Black

Have not yet revived the props but did get the download of the method . The package looks really professional and well made. The instructions are well explained with the promise of much more to come. I was familiar with the method for the boards which is very deceptive and very easy. I personally would not repeat too often and the larger the number the more likely something may be spotted. The book test is fantastic with three phases possible. The guys suggest that a comic presentation deflects from the possible monotony of a maths demo and suggest methods of achieving this but for me i want this as an opener especially for a corporate environment where you start by illustrating an impressive skill that is possible to learn building in impossibility to other effects demonstrating intuition etc No maths skill is required or memory work A quality Alakazam release and highly recommended !!!!

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