Ok so with my limited knowledge of pickup and NLP I've pieced together this game... the tricky part I've found while testing is keeping any tricky questions straight in your head while also doing math... in binary! Computer geeks should get this right away, the trick to figuring out what their answers were is all in binary.
So, there's 3 things I'd like advice/critiques on in particular about this routine/game.
1. The NLP aspect of it. I'm a rookie at NLP and I took my best stab, but someone with better grounding could probably improve on this a lot.
2. The game aspect of it. I'd like to know how obvious it is to those of you who don't do math in binary on a daily basis to tell me how obvious it is that it's just a simple math trick
3. The overall effectiveness or attractiveness of the routine as a whole. I haven't had the chance to actually field test this yet with actual targets.
*A side note... bold is the NLP commands, my (chest anchor) is rubbing the center of my chest like I over did the fly a little in the gym and I'm rubbing it... kind of my subtle attempt at pointing to myself*
Alright, the routine:
Me: "Hey I have this game I've made up, I'm still testing it but it'd be fun to do with you... it's kind of a personality test/game at the same time... Do you want to play?"
Girl:"Sure this sounds exciting!
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Me: "Ok, well you get 1 point just for being a good sport and playing with me. Now the way this game works is I'll ask you a series of questions, and each question is worth twice as many points as the question before it. Ok?"
Girl: "Ok..."
Me: "Ok, now don't tell me when you get points, and only tell me how many points you have at the end. Alright, now lets start. Give yourself 2 points if... (pretend your thinking) you grew up within 5 miles of cows."
Girl: acknowledges statement somehow (head nod, "ok", "got it")
Me: "Ok, now this one is worth twice the last one, so 4 points. If you think
you can feel a deep connection with someone (chest anchor) right after you meet them
Girl: thinks and acknowledges
Me: "Ok, now you get 8 points if you've ever actually met someone with whom you
feel like you've known them (chest anchor) your whole life even though you've only just met them.
Girl: gives signs to continue after doing math or not doing math, doesn't matter.
Me:"Ok, so this time you get 16 points if
(chest anchor) you remember the happiest moment of your life and you were with your family.
girl: does math. or doesn't. Nods when ready.
Me: "Ok wow, up to 32 points this time... you get the points if you play an instrument."
girl: nods when ready
Me: "Ok, so this time you get 64 points for being able to describe to me what it would be like for you to walk around a lake with someone (chest anchor) at night with a full moon."
Girl: goes into hopefully a slightly romantic description, obviously the point is to get her to imagine herself with you in the future.
Me: "Ok, well, last question, this time you get 128 points if you can (start chest anchor)
remember what it feels like to be in love with someone. (end chest anchor) Ok that was the last question, now how many points do you have total?
girl:"I got 242, does that mean I passed?"
(k gents, that's the end of the routine, rest is appropriate improv. Essentially once you do the math to figure out which she answered to, do some cold reading to make it look like you know more about her just from whatever her score was by using binary to figure out which she gave herself points for, and extrapolating off those. Let me know if you need a more in depth explanation of how the math works.)
Me: "Haha, nope. Two points shy of passing... but maybe this time I can make an exception and give you a chance for some extra credit...
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CHAT