the Lexican experiment

3 common Crossword Puzzle Books are shown

2 books are chosen,
(the third is used to show examples to the audience)

Each spectator FREELY opens to ANY page.
The first reads over the clues and chooses ANY "answer" they wish...
The audience is asked to choose "across or down" and a number.
The second spectator silently reads the clue at that number.

The puzzle clues are closely scrutinized,
Puzzles on the other pages are compared
and it's made VERY CLEAR that all the puzzles are different,
ALL of the clues are different
All of the answers are different.

With NO fishing,
NO "cues"
NO impression devices
You reveal the word Spectator # 2 is THINKING of.
And Spectator #1 takes the bookmark
out of the book THEY'VE BEEN HOLDING
the WHOLE TIME...

It is has the EXACT word they chose
written on it!

ALL SELF CONTAINED
NO IMPRESSION DEVICES
NO MEMORIZATION
NO FISHING
NO FORMULAS OR WORD ASSOCIATION
NO STOOGES

Hundreds of ACTUAL choices
PUZZLES, CLUES and ANSWERS
are closely examined to show
NO DUPLICATE CHOICES!

SUPER SIMPLE YET DEVIOUS!