Price$9.95
Media TypeVideo Download
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedJun 27, 2015
ODD
Marcus Eddie
P3 (Practice, Practice, Perform)
(Based on 1 review)
Have her name ANY card, and WITH NO HESITATION show that it's the ONE card with an ODD colored back
ODD is a worker's dream.
* No hesitation
* No funny moves
* instant reset!
* Use your own cards!
* Only one deck is used!
Have your spectator name ANY CARD. And with NO HESITATION you show her that it's the ONLY odd backed card in the deck!
Card tricks don't get any more direct or hard-hitting.
Marcus Eddie is a brilliant creator, and ODD is a great example why.
Reviews
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Here's one way to use ODD for walk-around:
The magician spreads a complete deck of 52 cards face-up between his hands and explains that one card is different from the rest. The spectator is invited to use her intuition to answer three questions about the special card. What is its color -- red or black? Its suit? Its value?
Suppose the spectator says the card is red, the Five of Diamonds. Impressed by her ability to sense the unknown, the magician thumbs through the face-up deck again, finds her card, and outjogs it. He then turns the remaining cards face down and thumbs through them again, showing that their backs are blue. Finally he turns over the Five of Diamonds and shows that, in contrast to the other cards, its back is red. The magician hands the Five to the spectator and compliments her on her remarkable intuition.
ODD is reminiscent of the Invisible Deck (ID). Both tricks have a strong impact, but, I prefer ODD for strolling purposes for three reasons. First, ODD uses 52 perfectly ordinary cards. It's true that there's something "ODD" about the deck and it can't be handed out for inspection. However, the individual cards are quite normal so that you can slowly thumb through them and allow the spectator to see all their faces. The ID doesn't look nearly so normal and, in close-up situations, spectators sometimes notice its peculiarities.
Second, I think the effect of ODD is more magical, or at least more inexplicable, than the effect of the ID. In the ID, the selected card is shown to have turned over. Spectators find this outcome impressive but not totally bewildering -- they may surmise that the magician secretly turned over the card. In ODD, however, a red-backed card appears in a blue deck. This seems much harder to explain than a flipped-over card.
The third reason I prefer ODD is that it's easy to make. Two ODD decks can be assembled from two ordinary Bicycle decks (and no other materials) in a matter of about ten minutes.
ODD is fairly easy to do-- about 3 on a 1 to 10 scale. Angle problems are minimal. Re-set can be instant. Marcus Eddie is a great teacher, although I suggest that you ignore his lesson on how to construct a special cardboard card case for ODD. If you use a metal or leather card case and keep the deck face-up during the first part of the trick, you don't have to worry about matching the color of the card case and the deck. Otherwise, I highly recommend this trick.
The magician spreads a complete deck of 52 cards face-up between his hands and explains that one card is different from the rest. The spectator is invited to use her intuition to answer three questions about the special card. What is its color -- red or black? Its suit? Its value?
Suppose the spectator says the card is red, the Five of Diamonds. Impressed by her ability to sense the unknown, the magician thumbs through the face-up deck again, finds her card, and outjogs it. He then turns the remaining cards face down and thumbs through them again, showing that their backs are blue. Finally he turns over the Five of Diamonds and shows that, in contrast to the other cards, its back is red. The magician hands the Five to the spectator and compliments her on her remarkable intuition.
ODD is reminiscent of the Invisible Deck (ID). Both tricks have a strong impact, but, I prefer ODD for strolling purposes for three reasons. First, ODD uses 52 perfectly ordinary cards. It's true that there's something "ODD" about the deck and it can't be handed out for inspection. However, the individual cards are quite normal so that you can slowly thumb through them and allow the spectator to see all their faces. The ID doesn't look nearly so normal and, in close-up situations, spectators sometimes notice its peculiarities.
Second, I think the effect of ODD is more magical, or at least more inexplicable, than the effect of the ID. In the ID, the selected card is shown to have turned over. Spectators find this outcome impressive but not totally bewildering -- they may surmise that the magician secretly turned over the card. In ODD, however, a red-backed card appears in a blue deck. This seems much harder to explain than a flipped-over card.
The third reason I prefer ODD is that it's easy to make. Two ODD decks can be assembled from two ordinary Bicycle decks (and no other materials) in a matter of about ten minutes.
ODD is fairly easy to do-- about 3 on a 1 to 10 scale. Angle problems are minimal. Re-set can be instant. Marcus Eddie is a great teacher, although I suggest that you ignore his lesson on how to construct a special cardboard card case for ODD. If you use a metal or leather card case and keep the deck face-up during the first part of the trick, you don't have to worry about matching the color of the card case and the deck. Otherwise, I highly recommend this trick.