Mind Unlock

Mind Unlock is a prop for magicians and mentalists. You borrow a spectator's phone to look something up. It seems to lock itself. You try their passcode and get it wrong, once, twice. Then you ask them to think of it, type, and the phone opens. In reality the phone was never locked. Mind Unlock shows a passcode screen that the performer controls: it refuses a set number of tries, then "unlocks" and opens a web search. No real passcode is ever asked for, entered or recorded, and the phone's own lock is never touched. - Runs on a spectator's phone from a link or NFC tag, through an App Clip, with nothing to install - Set how many tries fail, 4 or 6 digits, and Face ID or Touch ID wording - A live remote in the app: see where the trick is, make the next try unlock or fail, or unlock on cue - Secret taps on the phone itself for performing without the remote - A rehearsal mode that runs the…