HI there ,
I have two routines that I feel are very practicle and field tested but I think the larger knowledge base of the comunity might be able to add something to these routines.

1) Perfume. (i use this after an opener normaly)
you force , stack or peek the name of a perfume and then proceed to the routine. I have the chosen girl stand toe to toe with me and then place her right hand on the back of my neck.
I tell her to look me direct in the eye and as i to match her breathing to the upward motion of my hands which i basically just wave up and down more frequently as the routine progresses to up her heart rate etc. I talk to her and tell her she's in her bedroom etc getting ready and depending on how i feel its going - you can make this last as long as you like really , i might describe the various emotions she's feeling.

I then ask her to imagine looking at the bottle of perfume and then spraying it on her neck and after some more chat where i speed up the breathing rate/hand movements i lean in and take a big sniff from her neck. then i tell her what perfume it was and anchor her amazed reaction.
any thoughts on that guys?, esp as to the imagination part in her bedroom where i just tell her what to think

2) word association ( I only ever use this one for day game or dates)
this is a basic one ahead routine (a magic term that you can find out on google etc)
essentially you get someone to circle a word on a flyer, newspaper, book ,or whatever it is relevant (i was wondering if there was some sort of prop you could have on you which dhv for example) and they then hide it from you. always get them to circle it as some of them forget from time to time and i would recommend you tell them not to pick words such as at or the etc.

This is the bit where i think this routine has value as i now tell them that via them answering questions and word associations i can predict their word from the flyer. Now I usually do things like ask them to imagine we are in a restaurant or on a beach etc - describe it and ask them to say what drinks we are having or if its day time etc. This once again can be done as fast or slow as you think is appropriate. I feel that this part of the routine could be made to be quite strong and I would love to hear any ideas as to what questions people would ask or what situations you would direct them to imagine.
I "write" their answers down on a piece of paper as they give them to me
(obviously i just write the same thing down each time which is the force needed to get the circled world and i also use these pieces of paper as the second prediction - if you dont understand just google it!)

The rest of a one ahead trick is very easy to find on google but always practice mechanical things before you try them out and i would always recommend that you never introduce these as tricks, the impact seems to lessen.

basically any ideas for the handling of the questions, when to do either of these routines i.e after what and esp any ideas of where to transition to when they are finished?
thanks