YOUR SLY HACKS
THE LYING SACK PROJECT
Five original miracles hiding inside a popular party game
There’s a ridiculous little game from Exploding Kittens called You Lying Sack, created by non-other than Penn Jillette.
It’s meant to be played at family gatherings - a mix of bluffing, psychology and laughter.
Players reach into a sack filled with foam Bad Things and one Good Thing. They hide what they grabbed, look their friends in the eye, and say the same sentence:
“My hand is full of bad things. Will you take them?”
That’s it. That’s the whole game. It’s designed for parties, not performance.
So
of course it started as “I wonder if there’s a trick in this” and
quickly became “There are five, and they’re all too good to leave in a
notebook.”
So, here you go:
YOUR SLY HACKS - 5 ROUTINES WITH YOU LYING SACK
A 60-page eBook containing:
- a lie detector that shouldn’t work but does,
- a cheating routine where I’m the least trustworthy one in the room,
- a multiverse collapse with five Good Things,
- an imagination engine that produces objects on demand,
- and a biometric piece that predicts a lie before it’s spoken.
Everything
is fully written up - scripts, methods, blocking, variations, notes,
the lot. There are notes on tone, structure, misdirection and
participant management, plus my own commentary on design and premise - how to turn a commercial game into performance art.
You can pick up You Lying Sack on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3Xxv5yg
The Your Sly Hacks eBook is £45.
