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Magic46
New user
17 Posts
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Posted: Nov 7, 2007 2:42pm
Would anyone care to comment on the most fabulous self-working card trick they ever came across in their experience as a magician?
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VcosNJ
Inner circle
1180 Posts
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Posted: Nov 7, 2007 4:50pm
Devastation by Geoff Williams..
Untouched by Daryl?
Man, I can't do just one. I know quite a few self-working card tricks.
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edh
Inner circle
4702 Posts
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Posted: Nov 7, 2007 7:46pm
John Bannon's Dawn Patrol. If you consider the use of the Straddle Faro Shuffle a slight, then this would not fall under the category of self working tricks.
Magic is a vanishing art.
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Jon_Thompson
Inner circle
Darkest Cheshire
2097 Posts
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Posted: Nov 7, 2007 7:48pm
For me, it's Frinell's free cut principle to perform a 4-ace production. The spec cuts the four piles and buries the aces, and yet there they are again at the bottom of each pile. Lovely.
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Mark Rough
Inner circle
Ivy, Virginia
2110 Posts
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Posted: Nov 7, 2007 9:18pm
Fogel's three card prediction
What would Wavy do?
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Magiguy
Inner circle
Seattle, WA
4553 Posts
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Posted: Nov 7, 2007 9:45pm
Quote:
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On 2007-11-07 19:48, Jon_Thompson wrote:
For me, it's Frinell's free cut principle to perform a 4-ace production. The spec cuts the four piles and buries the aces, and yet there they are again at the bottom of each pile. Lovely.
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That should read "Finnell," and I'm not altogether sure that I would call the principle "self working."
Thoughts...?
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THEGUY26 (Will Swanson)
Inner circle
Minnesota, USA
2380 Posts
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Posted: Nov 7, 2007 10:03pm
Richard Sanders has a great one on one of the Sankey/Sanders Sessions DVDs. Shuffling Lesson by Chad Long is also a good one.
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cajmagic
Loyal user
Long Beach, California
235 Posts
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Posted: Nov 8, 2007 12:35pm
Is 3 Card Monte self working?
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Snidini
Special user
603 Posts
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Posted: Nov 8, 2007 9:04pm
Caj, I believe it is! You can't beat a good 3 card monte routine. Then again, maybe you can with a good ambitious card routine.
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Hideo Kato
Inner circle
Tokyo
5579 Posts
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Posted: Nov 8, 2007 9:07pm
Why are these in "Gaffed & Funky" section?
Hideo Kato
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joseph
Eternal Order
Please ignore my
14390 Posts
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Posted: Nov 10, 2007 6:42am
I don't know, but I also like Devastation.....
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." (Einstein)...
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pabloinus
Inner circle
1053 Posts
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Posted: Nov 10, 2007 7:40am
The invisible deck?
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jonnyboy
Special user
763 Posts
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Posted: Nov 12, 2007 4:03pm
Two I especially like: One is Overkill, from a Paul Harris DVD. And the other is a telephone number trick from a layman's book on Mental Magic with Cards I picked up at a Barnes and Noble. You can involve a number of audience members, with 4 freely selecting cards. At end of the trick, the person dealing the cards deals out their own phone number. The effect on the person is incredible when they realize the significance of the seven cards they dealt out.
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ninjaduffy
Veteran user
england
333 Posts
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Posted: Jan 12, 2008 8:35pm
Gemini twins... with a good delivery it is incredibly strong magic.. I ALWAYS perform this effect whenever I perform close up.
it is fab... think more mentalism, that's the way to go with this effect.
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docelk
Veteran user
St. Pete, FL
362 Posts
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Posted: Jan 12, 2008 8:53pm
The World's Greatest Magician
Life is a test. It is only a test. If this had been a real life, you would have been given further instructions on where to go, and what to do.
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Austin113
New user
New Jersey
67 Posts
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Posted: Jan 12, 2008 9:26pm
"Twisted Sisters" is ridiculously self-working and has some of the best reactions.
The method is not the secret.
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Kaylan
Special user
CT
739 Posts
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Posted: Jan 13, 2008 8:53am
Another vote here for Geoff Williams' Devastation.
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jonnyboy
Special user
763 Posts
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Posted: Jan 13, 2008 10:27am
Supra Gemini by John Guastaferro, to be found in Antinomy Vol. 11, is a wonderful self-working effect, with a killer ending.
John
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benjie84
Loyal user
New Jersey
221 Posts
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Posted: Jan 14, 2008 8:58am
Another vote here for overkill...it truly is devastatingly easing and very much "overkill"
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sychou
Regular user
169 Posts
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Posted: Jan 18, 2008 5:19am
Lazy men's card trick!!!
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airship
Inner circle
In my day, I have driven
1595 Posts
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Posted: Jan 18, 2008 11:38am
Yep, this should be in 'All in the Cards'...
I love Gemini Twins, but TNT and Intuition routined together absolutely kills.
'The central secret of conjuring is a manipulation of interest.' - Henry Hay
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ElCoral
New user
54 Posts
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Posted: Jan 18, 2008 1:56pm
Bannon's Play it Straight triumph. Its the only self-working effect I know, that causes specs to percieve you as having great manipulative skill.
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Donal Chayce
Inner circle
The City of Angels
1771 Posts
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Posted: Jan 18, 2008 2:28pm
Harry Lorayne's impromptu version of OOTW.
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Chessmann
Inner circle
My Dog Has Peed On
2742 Posts
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Posted: Jan 18, 2008 2:35pm
Another vote for Lorayne's Impromptu OOTW.
My ex-cat is named "Muffin". "Vomit" would be a better name for her. AKA "The Evil Ball of Fur".
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prototype
Veteran user
Rick Holcombe
320 Posts
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Posted: Jan 18, 2008 6:30pm
Time and time again, I get great reactions from my presentaion of Larry Jennings' "Impossible" just throw in your favorite false shuffles and cuts, and this trick is unbelieveably devastating.
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Father Photius
Grammar Host
El Paso, TX (Formerly Amarillo)
15701 Posts
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Posted: Jan 18, 2008 9:47pm
A third vote for Lorayne's OOTW.
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jonnyboy
Special user
763 Posts
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Posted: Jan 18, 2008 10:20pm
John Bannon's Dead Reckoning ("Dear Mr. Fantasy") is a great effect.
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Andy the cardician
Inner circle
A street named after my dad
3373 Posts
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Posted: Jan 21, 2008 3:40am
John Bannon's Dead Reckoning gets my vote as well
Cards never lie
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shadowman
New user
56 Posts
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Posted: Jan 21, 2008 5:55am
Another vote for Dead Reckoning.
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mfreno
New user
Dexter, Michigan
72 Posts
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Posted: Jan 21, 2008 10:19pm
Jeopardy by Paul Green
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