Marc Paul lectured on three very commercial pieces of mentalism, in fact these were pieces he uses in his working repetoire and it showed with all the little tips and nuances totally covered in each effect.

A variation of Jack Londons The Almost Real Prediction made a great opener. A sum on a flip chart set on stage was used to generate another totally random sum the total of which Marc had predicted and it turns out was todays date.

Marc talked about attaching conditions to your effects to make them seem more impossible. He then demonstrated this by having people draw different drawings on some business cards and two placed in envelopes one seen by the spectator and one unseen. Marc was able to devine both drawings.

The last routine was True Lies which is an anywhere, anytime, anyplace routine using borrowed business cards. He had 3 cards marked with a T and three marked with an L and then one marked with an X unseen and that one would be the murderer. They were mixed and six spectators chose a card. Marc was then able to divine who was telling a lie and who was telling the truth and finally who was the murderer.

All these effects were easy to do and more importantly were powerful pieces of mentalism.