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Tmayer New user 24 Posts 
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Has anyone took the plunge on this? http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/10996
Seems interesting, and I'm a sucker for RPS effects. Just been burned too many times on these downloads. If anyone has purchased it let me know how you like it. |
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catweazle Special user 924 Posts
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I don't have it, but reading the ad copy I guess you are not playing RPS the normal way, it sounds more like you have predictions written down, or perhaps on a card, read it carefully!
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casco1 New user 97 Posts
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I have had the pleasure of writing the foreword of this book so I can answer your questions and I will do it as sincerely as possible.
The effect is built in an extremely clever way and allows you to have an incredible piece of almost propless mentalism always with you. Andrea uses two well-known principles, but takes them to the next level. This allows you to play without strange procedures to a game of rock paper scissor, keeping in mind that it still requires a little compromise to make the effect 100% reliable. |
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Dannyflek Regular user 179 Posts
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It’s a boring plot , from my experience of watching many versions of it
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casco1 New user 97 Posts
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I think that the rock, paper, scissor routines are always very beautiful and engaging especially because they allow the audience to immediately understand what you can do, because they can easily relate with this childish game that everyone has played.
In particular, this version is a quick and effective opener that, as it is structured, immediately catches the attention and interest of the viewer, delivering an example of pure mentalism. |
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Dannyflek Regular user 179 Posts
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Even children have moved on from this it’s boring even for my kids playing the original version imo and theirs
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DrRob Special user Middle Chinnock 952 Posts
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I love the late Great Jorge Garcia's RPS chair test and still think it will be hard to beat !
*From his Meet the Jack DVD. regards Dr Rob |
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Jack Straw Inner circle Wichita 1020 Posts
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On Oct 18, 2018, casco1 wrote: So you spent $14.99 on this? And it plays out the way RPS actually does, or there are written predictions involved, which makes it somewhat odd to say the least. I'd need to see this in a full performance to be convinced that it's a worthwhile thing to buy, and lord knows that that will never happen. Without knowing any more about it, I'd have to say that this really sucks, but yet I'm perversely drawn into reading about it here.
Jack Straw from Wichita, cut his buddy down
And dug for him a shallow grave, and laid his body down Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light One man gone and another to go, my old buddy you're moving much too slow We can share the women, we can share the wine |
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casco1 New user 97 Posts
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Having written the foreword, I clearly didn't pay for it.
The effects is constructed so that if you were to play rock, paper, scissor for real, you would win for sure. Obviously that is not true and the spectator can do whatever he wants to do, but the routine is constructed in a way that the performer never loose. In order to do so, there are some written prediction involved, which are completely justified. In any case, I would like do underline again that the most interesting thing is how known principles are used in a new and effective way. |
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Jack Straw Inner circle Wichita 1020 Posts
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Oh, I didn't realize that you wrote the forward.
I shudder to think of how badly written this work must be, based on you writing "The effects is constructed", "the performer never loose", "some written prediction involved", and "I would like do underline again" here in this thread. God, the the educational system has fallen apart.
Jack Straw from Wichita, cut his buddy down
And dug for him a shallow grave, and laid his body down Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light One man gone and another to go, my old buddy you're moving much too slow We can share the women, we can share the wine |
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bangustar New user 72 Posts
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On Oct 16, 2018, casco1 wrote: What is 'almost propless'? Either it is propless or it utilizes props. Those non-existing euphemisms I can only laugh about. |
Seth speaks Inner circle New Mexico 1250 Posts
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On Oct 30, 2018, Jack Straw wrote: Well, Jack, he spelled “foreword” correctly, and you didn’t, so... I guess the system failed you, too..? 
Seth |
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casco1 New user 97 Posts
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If you think that to write a post on this online forum, I put the same attention and commitment that I used to write the foreword of a book then your educational system did not work much better than mine.
Obviously, each of my posts is thought out and rethought, subjected to the scrutiny of an entire team that then takes care of rereading and revising it so that it is free of any error, just as it was done for the book. The only thing I ask you is to read what has been written above, before writing, asking useless questions. At least so the next time you will avoid making bad figures. Furthermore, before being pedantic, ignorant and presumptuous, think that on the other side there could be someone who is not a native English speaker. In any case, avoid derailing this post further. If you want to talk more about the studies I've dealt with, you can write to me privately, possibly in Italian or Spanish; surely you will have no difficulty 
Thanks Seth for the support! |
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casco1 New user 97 Posts
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On Oct 31, 2018, bangustar wrote: Practically, the effect is almost propless in the sense that in some cases it may be necessary to use something tangible, making the effect non-propless. |
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Dannyflek Regular user 179 Posts
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It’s the premise that is pants and boring full stop .
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Jack Straw Inner circle Wichita 1020 Posts
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On Oct 31, 2018, Seth speaks wrote: Got me there, Seth, but I'm writing on my cell phone with auto correct (gotta have an excuse, right?), and I'm not professionally publishing anything. If I thought that he had spelled "foreword" wrong when I originally posted, I would have pointed that out also. My phone is trying to correct that spelling right now.
Jack Straw from Wichita, cut his buddy down
And dug for him a shallow grave, and laid his body down Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light One man gone and another to go, my old buddy you're moving much too slow We can share the women, we can share the wine |
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