The William W. Larsen Memorial Library

Calculated Thoughts

Author/Editor: Dyment, Doug

Comments on Terminology
Foreword (Ken Weber)

MAGIC SQUARES
What Is It About Magic Squares, Anyway?
Flash Squared
Foundation Square
Square School
The Natal Square
Fair & Square

FULL DECK STACKS
Full Deck Stacks
On the Ordering of Playing Card Suits
Hiding a Sequence in Plain Sight
The DAO Stack
The 4D Stack
QuickStack 3.0
SnapStack
The Q Stack
The Zenith Stack
The Chroma Stack
The ChroMem Stack

CARD CAPERS
Menologue
PokerFace
PokerPlay
An Immoderate Deception
Major Arcanum
Couplet
Bob’s Your Uncle
ESPerimental

QUARTO
Introduction
Evolution
Execution
Consummation
Contribution
Codicil: Six Billet Layouts

ZEMERMANCY
Introduction
Symbols: Introduction
Sybmols: Interpretation
The Circle
The Cross
The Wavy Lines
The Square
The Star
Transitions: Introduction
Transitions: Interpretation
A Reader Prepares
Reading Dynamics
An Abecedarian Adjunct
Colored Symbols
Bibliography

WORDPLAY
Sign Language
Verbiage

MYSTERY MELANGE
Penney’s From Heaven
Spoiled for Choice
FourSight
The Real Thing
The Vision

FOR THE TOOLKIT
BikeMarks 2.0
Tick Tock Too
How to Construct a Forcing Matrix
Premise NV
Marker Cribs

MUSINGS
On Performance
On Overthinking
On the Use of Props in Mentalism
On Extrasensory Perception
On Psychic Guilt
On Predicting the Future
On Learning Cold Reading
On The Validity of Readings
On Being a Perpetual Student

BORROWED BUSINESS
Other Minds, Other Thoughts
ABCDEFG (Markus Beldig)
The BBB Peek (Markus Beldig)
Design Duplicity (Marc Paul)
Psi Coin (Scott Deming)
C.C. Seer (Christopher Carter)
Figmental (Raj Madhok)
Bloodied (Irv Weiner)

Acknowledgements
Afterword (Richard Webster)