I have recently been performing this effect in restaurants and can confirm the "WTF" response. I don't follow the "thinking of a card" scenario. To me, the effct is a card change in a spectator's hand. Now that is strong.

Sounds like this effect would work very well with Ben Harris' 'Silent Running' principle and a pocket index. This would allow you to perform the effect without using a deck.

Marty

Quoting myself from another thread on worst dvd...


Imagine doesn't live up to it's promo - to me it's not subtle, just a brute force method to accomplish effect. Not worth the $30 for this one effect.

Hello guys,

I really love Imagine and use it all the time, but there's something about it I think ruins the effect sometimes, at least happened to me several times even when performing it right.

I'm gonna try to explain without any exposure, be free to delete this post if so.

When the spectators open the hands and see their card printed on the blank card, they always have a WTF moment, which is awesome! BUT if I give the card to them right away as a souvenir, sometimes they start to reverse engineering by folding the card again by the creases, and they understand I may have switched the blank card at some point by watching the card with their signature folded again.. By this time they are only impressed how I knew what card they would choose..

When I saw this happens several times, I stop performing it for a while. Then I had an idea that worked perfect to eliminate this possibility. I decided to combine Imagine with a Billet Tear mind reading effect that I really like from "Modern Mentalism VOL 2 by Matt Mello". I use their card as a billet for them to write something and then rip the card in pieces to perform the mind reading and most important to DESTROY THE CARD!!

I don't know if the same thing happened to some of you, is yes, then this is a solution that works very well for me. As a transition from effects I always say something like " WOW, you have a pretty good imagination!! Probably I can try something with you way more difficult. I want you to think of any person you really like!....."

Hope you like this idea

Cheers,

Flavio Algarve

Hi Flavio

Just a quick thing, I use imagine in a slightly different way but to get over the reverse engineer part you mention just add an extra fold line...

It will solve the problem

best

R