FAST MATH by Lars La Ville & La Ville Magic (video DOWNLOAD)

Make a freely named number the focus of a memorable card or paper demonstration. In FAST MATH, Lars La Ville deals 16 cards into a square, and the rows, center, and corners add up to the spectator’s number.

This 90-minute video download also explores face-down presentations, blindfolded demonstrations, and magic squares, giving you several ways to build a number-based moment of wonder into your act.

• Fast Math: The spectator names a number from 34 to 99, which the rows, center, and corners of the 4-by-4 card square all total.
• Face-up and face-down versions: Present the card square face up or reveal the totals by turning over the cards row by row.
• Memory demonstrations: Explore a photographic-memory presentation and a blindfolded square; these versions require extra memory work, and the blindfolded square is not easy.
• Magic squares: Learn versions built around a freely named number from 33 to 201, including one that uses a Sharpie and a pad of sticky notes.
• Video format: This is a 90-minute digital video download from La Ville Magic.

With card and paper presentations to choose from, you can select an approach that suits your performance and comfort with memory work. Bring the video’s ideas to your next close-up or parlor set and let a number chosen by the audience shape the demonstration.