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oombob Special user Canada 738 Posts 
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***. I was hoping Brainwave Redux was going to be perfect. Arriving tomorrow. Will share my thoughts.
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Blindside785 Inner circle Olympia, WA 4520 Posts
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I got it in today. I really like it!
They credit well in the beginning of the video, you know where the foundation of the idea comes from and it makes for a very clean looking brainwave where you don’t even know what card they are thinking of and they do the work for you and spread through the deck themselves to get half the work done. The huge benefit for me and what makes me excited about using it is that it’s not gaffed to the hilt. It uses something we all know, and we are taught what to use and how to make it but only a bank. Which is where the Crossroads credit comes from. So I can now do a brainwave and go into other things with the same deck, avoiding the one trick pony deck. So one could routine around this deck without having to carry another. I plan to take it around town and at the convention with me this weekend and working it. If anything he should sell a license to sell these for pitchers who pitch decks, as this is a better entryway than the brainwave itself imo and a lot less of a learning curve and very much something someone like a laymen getting into magic could pull off almost immediately. |
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oombob Special user Canada 738 Posts
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Glad to hear Blindside785 is liking this. I should have my deck early this week.
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Topcliffe New user New Orleans, LA 95 Posts
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I got this because I'm a sucker for gaff decks. And while I can certainly appreciate the thought and workmanship behind it, my honest assessment is that I just don't see myself carrying around an extra one-trick gaff deck to pull off the same effect that the Chicago Opener does much better, since with the CO the spectator can pick or name *any* card (as mentioned above, with BWR you have to force one of eight cards). All that's required for the CO is one extra odd-backed card, no need for any gimmickry or gaffing, leaving one free to use the same deck for other effects. Plus, of course, you finish off with a nice transformation/transposition (though you could of course leave this part out, but why?). And the deck of course is 100% inspectable. Because of that, I really can't see what advantage the BWR provides.
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Topcliffe New user New Orleans, LA 95 Posts
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On Mar 17, 2023, Blindside785 wrote: I don't understand how you can go right into another routine when you have 7 odd-backed cards left in the deck when you're done, not to mention the other gaffing that makes the effect work. Or do you mean routines that specifically call for having odd-backed cards mixed into the deck? |
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Ustaad Inner circle Iindia - States 5943 Posts
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MAGIC is a SECRET, without the SECRET there is no MAGIC.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke. |
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oombob Special user Canada 738 Posts
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Received this. Agree with Topcliffe 100%. The approach is clever but I purchased this under the impression (given by the initial trailer) that the spectator could name any card. They can’t… and for this reason, I won’t be using this.
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oombob Special user Canada 738 Posts
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On Mar 20, 2023, Ustaad wrote: Thanks Ustaad! Love it. |
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Blindside785 Inner circle Olympia, WA 4520 Posts
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On Mar 19, 2023, Topcliffe wrote: They aren't any odd back cards in your deck unless you want them to be. |
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charliemartin Special user Rapid City, SD 749 Posts
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I got mine and I like it. But, this is something to be performed in a situational environment. I work bars where they drink hard, this was hard to do for them.In a quiet environment and spectators being focused, great.
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daver Elite user Jupiter, FL 436 Posts
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FWIW, I had the pleasurable opportunity to spend some time with Frank Everhart in Key West the last few weeks at his magic bar.
He does an effect Brainwave-like, with no gimmicks. Unless you consider one-off color d*pl**ate (did I really have to do that ** thing? I dunno ;-) a gimmick. Anyway, with a good f*r*e (I know, I did it again  you can get the same effect and reaction.
Sure, buy a deck to do the work for you if you like; I love his effect (and so do the audiences, over, and over...) I was there for 5 weeks and we had tons of spectators, and they ALL had killer reactions and not once did he ever get close to being caught out. FWIW
Dave
What's the difference between a magician and a deck of cards? A deck of cards has FOUR suits... |
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PatrickGregoire Inner circle 2088 Posts
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On Mar 23, 2023, daver wrote: But that's not the same effect (colour changing card vs odd backed prediction card), unless he's forcing the card face up, in which case he might as well not use a duplicate and just force the odd-backed card. |
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PatrickGregoire Inner circle 2088 Posts
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Just received this today. My opinion: It's not horrible but this is a step backwards... The end of the tutorial talks about what to do if it goes wrong, and how it *will* go wrong every now and then. It feels like if this came out before Brainwave, Brainwave would be the one gloating that it had solved the issue of the trick not always working. You don't gain enough by having the spectator spread through the cards to find their card to justify this method. You might as well just have the whole deck gaffed and equivoque a colour, or have all the court cards gaffed and equivoque to court cards. That's probably the best application of this method, and I feel like that's probably not even a new idea.
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Maxyedid Special user Panama 766 Posts
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Uday, Tarbell was teaching this method in his lectures about 70 years ago or so.
However with this method you can only show the card as having a different color back but not reversed in the deck, right? Quote: On Mar 16, 2023, Ustaad wrote:
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PatrickGregoire Inner circle 2088 Posts
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Not advised, but technically you could have the gaff in the middle of the deck with the odd back facing the same way as the faces of the rest of the cards. They name a card, you spread through face up, cull their named card without them seeing it (as you go through the deck and upjog the face down odd-backed card), take the face down card out, turn the rest of the cards face down, place gaff on top of the deck and double turnover. Again, not advised.
Besides, Brainwave Redux can't have the odd-backed card face down in the deck either. |
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Ustaad Inner circle Iindia - States 5943 Posts
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On Mar 24, 2023, Maxyedid wrote: @ Maxyedid: You might like to checkout my following post. And BTW I'm not Uday. 
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On Mar 20, 2023, Ustaad wrote: 
MAGIC is a SECRET, without the SECRET there is no MAGIC.
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martonikus Regular user 151 Posts
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There's another version (52 B Wave) where you equivoque a suit, any card can be named, that card is face up in the face-down deck AND the card has a different-color back AND all the rest of the cards are blank. I like the kickers! This can be effective if you use a similar, but more fair procedure to narrow to one card as you use to narrow to the one available suit. A jumbo version is currently available, in which only the color need be equivoqued.
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