Manos Live Act 3.pdf

In order to create the cards for Stegosaurus you must follow this procedure: Write down all the letters of your alphabet and separate them into two groups (same number of letters in each group if possible). Make sure that you have an equal amount of vowels in each group (if possible) because that will make things easier later. The consonants can be randomly separated. I created my list in Greek so I will use that as an example. By following the same steps though you will be able to do it in any language. There are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet so I made 2 groups of letters each with 12 letters. There are 7 vowels in the Greek alphabet so there are 4 vowels in one group and 3 in the other. The rest of the letters were separated randomly. Group 1: ​Ρ, Α, Δ, Γ, Υ, Φ, Ε, Ψ, Σ, Χ, Τ, Ζ Group 2: ​Ο, Κ, Ξ, Λ, Θ, Μ, Π, Η, Β, Ι, Ν, Ω Now we must make a list of 31 words. Each word must consist of 5 letters. Before we start making this list we need to take into consideration 3 things: 1.) Each word will secretly have a value. 2.) All letters of Group 1 have a value of 0. 3.) The letters of group 2 have a different value depending on where they are in the word. If a letter from Group 2 is the first letter of a word it has a value of 16. If it is in the second position, it has a value of 8. Third position a value of 4, fourth position a value of 2 and fifth position a value of 1. The numbers are easy to remember because every number is the half of the other starting from 16. ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ 16 8 4 2 1 The first word in our list must have a value of 0. In order to do that, all the letters of this word must come from Group 1. Remember, all the letters of Group 1 have a value of 0. The first word on my list is the word “​ΑΕΡΑΣ​”. You will notice that all the letters in this word come from Group 1. So the word has a value of 0. ___​Α​___ ___​Ε​___ ___​Ρ​___ ___​Α​___ ___​Σ​___ 16 8 4 2 1 No letters from Group 2 were used so we ignore the values 16, 8, 4, 2, 1 in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth positions. All letters of Group 1 have a value of 0. The next word must have a value of 1. In order to create a word that has a value of 1, the first 4 letters of the word must come from Group 1 and the last letter must be from Group 2. Remember, if you have a letter from Group 2 in the last position, it has a value of 1. The second word in my list is the word “​ΖΕΣΤ​H​”. You will notice that the first four letters come from Group 1 and the last letter comes from Group 2. ___​Ζ​___ ___​Ε​___ ___​Σ​___ ___​Τ​___ ___​Η​___ 16 8 4 2 1 We ignore the values 16, 8, 4, and 2 because the first, second, third and fourth letter come from Group 1 so they have a value of 0. The last letter comes from Group 2 so in the last position, it has a value of 1 making the total value of the word 1. I have used different colours for the letters in Group 1 and Group 2 in this document for explanation purposes. Of course in performance all letters are written in the same colour.

The next word must have a value of 2. The word in my list is “​ΥΓΕ​Ι​Α​”. This word has a total value of 2 because the first, second, third and fifth letter come from Group 1 and have a value of 0. The only letter from Group 2 is the fourth letter which has a value of 2. ___​Υ​___ ___​Γ​___ ___​Ε​___ ___​Ι​___ ___​Α​___ 16 8 4 2 1 In order to create the rest of the words in the list, you must choose each letter from the correct group to make words that have different values from 0 to 31. Here is my list of words with their values: Value

Word

Explanation

0

ΑΕΡΑΣ

All letters have a value of 0

1

ΖΕΣΤ​Η

One letter from Group 2 in position with value 1

2

ΥΓΕ​Ι​Α

One letter from Group 2 in position with value 2

3

ΤΡΕ​ΝΟ

Two letters from Group 2 in positions with values 2 and 1

4

ΓΥ​Π​ΑΣ

One letter from Group 2 in position with value 4

5

ΓΑ​Ν​Τ​Ι

Two letters from Group 2 in positions with values 4 and 1

6

ΧΡ​ΗΜ​Α

Two letters from Group 2 in positions with values 4 and 2

7

ΤΑ​ΒΛΙ

Three letters from Group 2 in positions with values 4, 2 and 1

8

Δ​Ι​ΧΤΥ

One letter from Group 2 in position with value 8

9

Ε​Λ​ΑΤ​Ο

Two letters from Group 2 in positions with values 8 and 1

10

Φ​Ω​Τ​Ι​Α

Two letters from Group 2 in positions with values 8 and 2

11

Ψ​Η​Φ​ΙΟ

Three letters from Group 2 in positions with values 8, 2 and 1

12

Φ​ΩΝ​ΕΣ

Two letters from Group 2 in positions with values 8 and 4

13

Δ​ΟΝ​Τ​Ι

Three letters from Group 2 in positions with values 8, 4 and 1

14

Φ​ΟΒΟ​Σ

Three letters from Group 2 in positions with values 8, 4 and 2

15

Ε​ΘΙΜΟ

Four letters from Group 2 in positions with values 8, 4, 2 and 1

16

Π​ΑΡΤΥ

One letter from Group 2 in position with value 16

17

Ν​ΥΧΙ​Α

Two letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16 and 1

18

Κ​ΕΡ​Μ​Α

Two letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16 and 2

Value

Word

Explanation

19

Π​ΕΥ​ΚΟ

Three letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16, 2 and 1

20

Η​Ρ​Ω​ΑΣ

Two letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16 and 4

21

Κ​Ρ​Ι​Σ​Η

Three letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16, 4 and 1

22

Β​Ε​ΛΟ​Σ

Three letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16, 4 and 2

23

Π​Υ​ΚΝΟ

Four letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16, 4, 2 and 1

24

ΜΠ​ΥΡΑ

Two letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16 and 8

25

ΚΛ​ΑΔ​Ι

Three letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16, 8 and 1

26

ΞΙ​Φ​Ο​Σ

Three letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16, 8 and 2

27

ΒΟ​Υ​ΝΟ

Four letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16, 8, 2 and 1

28

ΜΠΟ​ΤΑ

Three letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16, 8 and 4

29

ΜΠΟ​Ρ​Ω

Four letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16, 8, 4 and 1

30

ΞΙΝΟ​Σ

Four letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16, 8, 4, and 2

31

ΜΠΛΟΚ

Five letters from Group 2 in positions with values 16,8,4,2 and 1

Now that your list of words is ready you must write the words on 6 index cards. On the first index card you write the words with values from 0 to 5, second index card words with values from 6 to 10, third index cards has the words with values from 11 to 15, fourth has words with values from 16 to 20, fifth one has words with values from 21 to 25 and the last one has the words with values from 26 to 31. Here are the cards I use for reference:

For the next step, you need 10 blank index cards. On 5 of them you write the letters of Group 1, all 12 letters on each of the cards. Write the letters in different positions on every card so they appear random. Here is a picture of my cards for reference:

You will notice that all 5 cards have the same 12 letters from Group 1 but they appear to be different on first glance. Next, you must make another 5 cards, using the same index cards for the letters of Group 2. Here are my cards for reference:

The cards of Group 2 are marked. These index cards have rounded corners which make them stand out from the cards of Group 1 even when they are face down. The rounded corners in the cards in the pictures are slightly exaggerated for explanation purposes. Please refer to the cards in the video explanation to see how subtle the markings are. Now, when the participant spells out their thought of word using these cards, all you have to do is see if the card has rounded corners so you can add a value, or if it has pointed corners so you ignore it because it has a value of 0. For example if the participant uses the following cards to spell their word: ​marked*​ ​not marked​ ​not marked​ ​marked*​ ​not marked 16 8 4 2 1 *marked = rounded corners

Then you would immediately know that they are thinking the 18th word from your list because there were only two marked cards (with letters from Group 2) in the positions with a value of 16 and 2. Of course you don’t need to memorize the list or the values of the words since the list is right in front of you. I know that more than 95% of the people who get this download will not be able to use my list in Greek but its purpose was to be an example of the system used to create the list of words and the cards. Using this system you can make your own lists with any words you like in any language. You will need to put in some work but I believe this routine will pay you back tenfold. If you would like to get some lists in English that are ready to use please consider buying Phill Smith’s brilliant Stegosaurus routine available on Penguin Magic’s website. This document focuses on making the list of words and the cards used in the routine. For a complete performance and explanation please refer to the video download.