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Hushai Elite user St. Louis, Missouri, USA 459 Posts |
I have just recently seen ads for "Silky Smooth Prediction," by Joe Silkie. One of the ads was on Meir Yedid's MyMagic site. Can anyone tell me about this? It seems to have been around for quite a while -- I found a reference to a trick by this name in a Café post from 2004 -- but I cannot find any reviews or any more comments on it than that one. Is it good? It is said to be self-working, or almost so. It sounds like Bob Solari's "Solari's Premonition," from a set of his lecture notes.
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Hushai Elite user St. Louis, Missouri, USA 459 Posts |
O.K., since no one else would respond, I went ahead and bought the trick. So, I will answer my own questions, above. First, here is the ad for it from Meir Yedid's website:
"An impossible prediction that is guaranteed to make your audiences gasp. You place a prediction card face down on the table. The spectator deals cards into two piles. He gets a free selection of the top card of either packet. Much to the spectator's amazement the prediction card and the selected card are identical and match perfectly. None of the other cards match. An impossible and self-working routine that can be repeated. Comes complete with photo-illustrated instructions and two very special cards. Use your own deck (Bicycle Poker). US $10.00" Here are my comments on Silky Smooth Prediction: As I thought, this is very similar to Solari's Premonition, a trick which it seems everyone has overlooked or forgotten, though I think it's a pretty good one. The only real difference between the two is that in Silky Smooth Prediction the prediction card is, as advertised, dealt face down on the table at the beginning, while in Solari's Premonition the prediction card must be presented in an envelope at the beginning and removed from the envelope only after the spectator has selected a card from the deck. In both tricks, unfortunately, the prediction card CANNOT be freely examined by the spectators – this, IMHO, is the chief weakness of both tricks. I think I prefer Solari's version at this point: in spite of the envelope, it is easier and neater and, I think, less suspicious, and the spectator is perhaps less likely to want to examine it. Another weakness of both tricks, maybe, is that a force is used that is somewhat well known to magicians and may even be transparent to a smart layperson, though I am not sure about this. I have found this force recommended as part of some fairly sophisticated tricks, so maybe I'm wrong. I am impressed with how strucurally similar both Solari's Premonition and Silky Smooth Prediction are to Steve Shufton's Inexplicable, though I think Shufton's method must be different. (I only THINK this since I don't have Inexplicable.) Inexplicable was faulted here on Magic Café because there, also, a prediction card is used which cannot be freely examined by the spectators. One way in which both Solari and Silky are superior to Inexplicable is that apparently in Inexplicable the spectator may not actually stop dealing at the right card, i.e. the trick is not sure-fire: in Solari and in Silky you are assured that a correct selection will be "freely" arrived at if the instructions are followed. So, even though Inexplicable attracted so much more attention and was twice as expensive as Silky, I think Silky (or Solari) may actually be better tricks. The best thing about Silky Smooth Prediction is the written instructions that come with it. They are very well written and clear. The photos illustrate the trick nicely. I especially like the extra tips at the end of the instructions which suggest variations on the original trick, one of which uses a prediction card which CAN be examined. Putting a couple of these variations together, I figured out a way to do the trick that is impromptu and can be done with a borrowed deck. I think this is worth the $10.00. |
merlin2812 Regular user 128 Posts |
Hello,
thanks for this review! I would love the same trick with no additional card... |
Hushai Elite user St. Louis, Missouri, USA 459 Posts |
Merlin2812, if you get the trick and look at the "Extra For Experts" section at the end of the instructions, and put together #1 and #5, you can figure out how to do it with just a borrowed deck and no additional cards, gaffed or otherwise.
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