Price$44.60
Media TypeTrick
CategoryGeneral, Close Up
Date AddedApr 17, 2015
Appear-ing
Leo Smetsers
(Based on 1 review)
An audience member chooses a card from your deck and puts it back. You take off your wedding ring and put it on top of the deck. You ask the audience member for his or her phone, and you take a picture of the deck. The picture on the phone will show the deck and the ring, but now the ring has chosen card engraved on it! You hand the ring to someone in the audience, but they will not be able to find the engraving!
The manual is filled with several additional tricks, that require only this ring!
Reviews
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PROS
This is a great routine! The handling is superb! The instruction is great! But wait, there’s more… your participant is left with a tremendous souvenir in their phone!
The handling includes a new prop that I think you are going to LOVE!
Here’s the but…
CONS
It comes with a gimmick that will allow you to perform this for a single card revelation. You can’t do this again with a different card. I can think of at least one method that would have allowed this to be done with two different revelations.
I still really like the effect, but I don’t think I would do this in a walk-around environment because the participants would all have to be thinking of the same card. Either tremendous coincidence, or bad magic. I think the latter.
VERDICT
I gave this four stars and would have given this five stars if it were designed just a bit better to allow for multiple performances, or at least to be able to be repeated once with a different outcome. Some magicians say to never repeat an effect, but if you are doing walk-around, you are going to repeat the same effects. You might have three sets of three effects that you rotate, but if the group is large enough, you are bound to do some repeat business. Also, you get the “You have got to show that to my boss”. Given the limitation, there is another effect where you take a photo of a participant, apparently holding a blank playing card and the photo shows an image of the card they were thinking of. I can’t remember the name of this effect, but when I do, I’ll update this review. I think it was a World Magic release. You could do that effect as a follow-up to this one.
All in all, I really like this and think it is very powerful magic.
This is a great routine! The handling is superb! The instruction is great! But wait, there’s more… your participant is left with a tremendous souvenir in their phone!
The handling includes a new prop that I think you are going to LOVE!
Here’s the but…
CONS
It comes with a gimmick that will allow you to perform this for a single card revelation. You can’t do this again with a different card. I can think of at least one method that would have allowed this to be done with two different revelations.
I still really like the effect, but I don’t think I would do this in a walk-around environment because the participants would all have to be thinking of the same card. Either tremendous coincidence, or bad magic. I think the latter.
VERDICT
I gave this four stars and would have given this five stars if it were designed just a bit better to allow for multiple performances, or at least to be able to be repeated once with a different outcome. Some magicians say to never repeat an effect, but if you are doing walk-around, you are going to repeat the same effects. You might have three sets of three effects that you rotate, but if the group is large enough, you are bound to do some repeat business. Also, you get the “You have got to show that to my boss”. Given the limitation, there is another effect where you take a photo of a participant, apparently holding a blank playing card and the photo shows an image of the card they were thinking of. I can’t remember the name of this effect, but when I do, I’ll update this review. I think it was a World Magic release. You could do that effect as a follow-up to this one.
All in all, I really like this and think it is very powerful magic.