Xiqual
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Posted: Feb 15, 2016 03:19 am
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Except that this is a great way to get people on stage to do your finale. Instead of "OK, I need 14 people." you do this trick and then do your big finale. The people are random. Matt explains that he got the idea from the famous card trick.
It's an excellent and fun way to get volunteers on stage. Creating rapport, playing around with your audience, that's what people remember.
James
Quote: On Feb 13, 2016, fireisyummy wrote:
Penguin didn't publish the review I left a few weeks ago so I am going to try to post it here. I also tried posting it again on penguin. Maybe now that its on the Café they'll have no reason not to post it.
I am willing to bet that there is nobody regularly performing this trick in this form (feel free to comment to prove me wrong. I'm sure that no one will). Although Matt mentioned that he has a better version of this trick in his book, that is not the version I received when I purchased this, and is not the version you will receive either when you purchase it.
Basically what Matt did is he took a well known card trick and went "Hey, this would work with people on stage!"
Without giving away the name of the trick (which is basically all you need. If you knew the name of the trick there would be no reason to purchase the trick as the script contains zero breakthroughs or brilliance) although it is half decent, and worth remembering and performing once in a while (I've performed it 3 or 4 times myself), its not really all that strong comparatively. You would never do a trick like this on stage. The buildup requires about 30 people to be deceiving, fills the whole stage and takes about 10 minutes. Its so big it probably has to be your finale. The problem is that then your final prediction is then going to be super underwhelming. The more the buildup, the greater the payoff has to be. I can't tell you what the payoff is as then you'd know what trick it is, but to put it lightly, you are NOT going to "show a prediction that proves you knew every action they would make."
This is essentially equivalent to making you grand finale that you spent 10 minutes building up guessing what number on a dice someone would roll. Half decent trick, worth about one to two minutes of buildup. But if that is your big finale I really don't want to watch the rest of your show.
Also, you want your final effect to be something tottaly bewildering that will leave your audience thinking about it for months. This effect takes about 10-20 minutes to backtrack. For the card version no one is going to bother. However, if its your finale, someone in every car will have it figured out by the end of their ride home.
Still with the Chinese circus
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fireisyummy
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Posted: Feb 24, 2016 02:29 pm
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My apologies to penguinmagic. They posted my first review. It just took them about three weeks to get around to posting it.
The magic shops are full of garbage tricks. The job of the magic Café community is to help other magicians get the good tricks and avoid the bad. Virtually every magician has released gold and garbage. It's really not cool to insult someone who has bought a number of your products for a totally fair and legitimate review which contains no exposure.
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