The Knight’s Tour Revisited by Lew Brooks and Steven Keyl

Years ago, Lew Brooks, a passionate chess player, was captivated by a knight’s tour showcased on a chessboard, demonstrating remarkable memory skills. This impressive feat has been a staple among mentalists and memory practitioners alike.

Some memory specialists also excel in memorizing the sequence of a deck of cards in mere moments. While the idea of merging the Knight’s Tour with a memory challenge isn’t novel—Bob Cassidy introduced a blend of the Tour with a magic square in his 2003 ebook “Mind Explosions”—this work uniquely integrates the Tour with the memorization of a deck of playing cards.

According to the accompanying PDF, “My goal was to fuse these two distinct techniques into a stunning display of concentration. Lacking the innate ability to achieve this feat, I devised a method to convincingly simulate such an extraordinary accomplishment. The Knight’s Tour Revisited is my answer to this challenge.”

“What you have in this work is the most amazing, unbelievable, reputation-making demonstration of memory and extreme concentration available anywhere today.” – Lew Brooks

“This is without a doubt, the greatest display of mental agility and cognition that has ever been, or will ever be, devised.” – Steven Keyl

Bob Cassidy praises, “…the concept of doing the ‘tour’ and a memory demonstration at the same time is not new.”