Dear friend,
A lot of magic pages make their product sound like they’re some reincarnation of Houdini himself, finally sharing his long lost secret hidden for 100 years.
We’re not saying we’re not guilty of that sometimes too but it does get a little tiresome when EVERY effect people release seems to be ‘the greatest worker’ or ‘finally the answer to x.’
Listen, we'll be 100% honest about the effects on this page.
They’re just some solid card magic that gets good reactions.
When someone hands us a deck of cards and we’re feeling a little lazy, but still want to do something they’ll remember, these are two of the effects we turn to.
Effect One:
‘Twin Souls’
You’re going to make a prediction for two cards, either by texting them to your spectator or writing them on a piece of paper. To begin the effect, you write down your first prediction.
You then have your first spectator select a secret number, deal to it, look at the card, and put the cards back together. They can then cut the deck to bury their card.
You then make another prediction for your second spectator.
They then give the cards to your second spectator, that spectator deals to the same secret number and looks at a different card. You then reveal you predicted the identity of both cards correctly.
This is an effect inspired by Al Baker with a few modern twists.
Key points include…
*Next to no sleight of hand skill needed.
*Ridiculously easy to do - once you learn this you’ll be able to perform it forever.
*Super fooling (locking your predictions in by texting them to your spectator, or to your own phone/a friend's phone makes this effect very strong!)
*Road tested (this has been fooling spectators for 51 years!)
Effect Two:
‘Cutting Tens’
You borrow a deck of cards and explain that card cheats are experts at cutting the deck to an exact location. You ask your friends to try to cut ten from the top of the deck. One at a time they try but appear to fail to cut exactly ten cards off the top of the deck.
Then you turn over the top card of their packets to reveal that all four spectators are holding tens—which is what you were really asking for.
This is an incredibly easy trick but we’re being totally honest when we say it has become our new ‘go-to’ effect when we’re out and about and someone asks to see a card trick. People love it and it’s laughably simple.
(Of the past 10 times we've performed a card trick, this effect was 7 of those!)
Key points include:
*Very easy to do (any level of card magician can pull this off!)
*Great kicker ending (spectators never see it coming!)
*Great variation on a classic plot (magicians have been doing these sorts of routines for years!)
This method was taught to us by Rory Adams, and when you purchase we’ll also explain our additional handling we added that we think makes it even more deceptive.
If you want even more proof of just how much of a ‘go-to’ this has become for us, here’s a video of Benji 14,000 feet above sea level, on the way to Everest base camp performing this for a new group of friends…
