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blpprt Regular user South Carolina 122 Posts 
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Greetings All,
Sorry for such a mundane question but I've seen many references to Paul Curry's Open Prediction (especially since there are so many subsequent variations) but after doing searches on Google and in "themagiccafe.com", I can't find any reference to where the method can be found. Could someone please tell me which book would have it? Many thanks, Bob L. |
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Hideo Kato Inner circle Tokyo 5649 Posts
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In "Ibidem" No.3 published August 1955, you can find 25 solutions by Stewart James and 11 solutins by Howard Lyons.
Hideo Kato |
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Uli Weigel Inner circle Berlin, Germany 1478 Posts
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Hi Bob,
there is not one, there are dozens if not hundreds of solutions to this plot. Jon Racherbaumer's Hierophant (the book) has a whole chapter on the Open Prediction. Other easily optainable sources are Marlo's "The Cardician" and Giobbi's "Card College". A quick search here at the café should produce a lot more information. |
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blpprt Regular user South Carolina 122 Posts
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Hi Hideo and Uli,
I appreciate the responses. It looks like something that I was hoping would be simple and straight-forward is more like a "quest"...with all the variations available. I think I also found "Open Prediction"...probably the most basic form, in Fulves' book "More Self-Working Card Tricks". Do either of you do this trick and have a favorite method? I always prefer impromptu (or with minimum set-up) with a borrowed deck. Thanks! Bob L. |
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Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts
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Tony Binarelli had a very effective one in his book, "Class Act", but it wasn't impromptu.
On the Secret Sessions DVD, there's an ingenious Open Prediction that requires minimal set-up, and is short and direct. |
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blpprt Regular user South Carolina 122 Posts
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Thanks! I'll look into those suggestions.
I might be way off-base, but it seems to me that essentially the same idea could be conveyed with a trick called "The Envelope, Please" in "Magic for Dummies", pages 198-200. Best wishes, Bob L. |
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Uli Weigel Inner circle Berlin, Germany 1478 Posts
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Hi Bob,
the version in the Fulves book is much better than most card magicians would think. Many versions of the Open Prediction require a switch at precisely the wrong moment. The version in "More Self-Working Card Tricks" has one big advantage: at the end, you're clean, you have a clean stage picture, and the spectator himself turns the one face down card over. I do perform this one from time to time (for layman only), and find it to be very effective. |
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blpprt Regular user South Carolina 122 Posts
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Thanks, Uri,
I don't own "More Self-Working Card Tricks" but will purchase it (I found out that it has "Open Prediction" after a web search). I'm glad it also has the bonus of being one of the inexpensive Dover paperback books! Danke! Bob L. |
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the fritz Special user 647 Posts
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I have tried using Gemini Twins (also from More Self-Working Card Tricks)as an "Open Prediction" type of trick. The difference is the cards are not dealt face up and there are two predictions instead of one. The title "Open Prediction" implies that the prediction is known beforehand and that is exactly what happens with Gemini Twins. It isn't quite as clean as Paul Curry's original idea of dealing cards face up, dealing one face down, then the rest face up, but it is still a good, inexplicable way to present Gemini Twins.
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Brucelee New user Master of Nun-Chuckin' 70 Posts
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Is Paul Curry's Open Prediction just like the one that Sean Fields' is selling on his website?
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Doctor REvil Elite user 469 Posts
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Jerry Hartman has some very good handlings of this wonderful plot in his new book, "Card Dupery".....
David
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robwar0100 Inner circle Buy me some newspapers.Purchase for me 1 Gazette and 1747 Posts
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I was just on trickshop.com and contemplated purchasing A Prediction from Bombay which combines Paul Curry's Open Prediction and Eddie Joseph's Bombay. My only hesitation is that it seems similar to an effect in Ken de Courcy's Coffee Break Chronicle (don't remember the name).
Bobby
"My definition of chance is my hands on the wheel," Greg Long.
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balic2003 Regular user 118 Posts
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The one in Card College is really good.
I blewd away a fellow magician with this! |
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Hushai Elite user St. Louis, Missouri, USA 460 Posts
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Gordon Bean has an Open Prediction trick called "The Los Angeles Open" which comes along with a trick called "Joker Joker." Most people seem to think that "Los Angeles Open" is actually a far superior trick to "Joker Joker" and a good solution to the Open Prediction problem. Somewhere on the Café there's a long thread about these tricks.
Also, in the first volume of Steve Beam's "Semi-automatic Card Tricks" series there are some Open Prediction tricks, one of which is kind of like the ultra-simple one in Fulves' book that was mentioned above. |
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Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts
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On 2007-12-28 04:52, Doctor REvil wrote: David, Good to see someone else mentioning "Card Dupery". A great book that seems to have been largely ignored by the magic community at least in terms of posts about it here and at Genii. ------------------------------- In the "James File" there are ton more solutions to the Open Prediction effect including some nice ones by Michael Weber, Max Maven, Steve Beam, and others. Definately a good source. Sprinkled throughout Apocalypse you will also find a number of approaches to the Curry effect. Best, Vlad |
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magicfish Inner circle 7016 Posts
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L.J.'s Prophecy- Larry Jennings, Richards Almanac
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Turk Inner circle Portland, OR 3546 Posts
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On 2007-11-23 13:52, Scott Cram wrote: Does anyone know which effect/performer that Scott was referring to in his post?
Magic is a vanishing Art.
This must not be Kansas anymore, Toto. Eschew obfuscation. |
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Magiguy Inner circle Seattle, WA 5473 Posts
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On 2010-04-04 18:00, Turk wrote: "Open Prediction" by Amilkar Reiga |
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Turk Inner circle Portland, OR 3546 Posts
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Quote: On 2010-04-10 13:07, Magiguy wrote:
Magic is a vanishing Art.
This must not be Kansas anymore, Toto. Eschew obfuscation. |
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Turk Inner circle Portland, OR 3546 Posts
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OOPS! Forgot to add my comments to the quoted material. Here 'tis:
"Thanks, Magiguy, That info was very much appreciated. I'll have to dig out my Secret Sessions videos and look this on up. I think that I remember this one and I was impressed with it when I first saw it. (Matching Kings or something like that as I recall.) Thanks again. Mike"
Magic is a vanishing Art.
This must not be Kansas anymore, Toto. Eschew obfuscation. |
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