The Effect
This is what the blurb says
One of our best-sellers! A scintillating ‘Just Chance’ routine using an expensive-looking diamond ring and three ring boxes. Here is a real feature effect that you will enjoy performing in all your shows.
·You show three empty ring boxes, which you can have closely examined and you either borrow or use your own costly diamond ring.
·The ring is inserted into any one of the boxes that is selected by an audience member and then all three boxes are closed.
Three different effects are now possible.
1. Any spectator freely mixes the boxes together and yet using your ‘psychic powers’ you unfailingly pick out the box that contains the ring.
2.After the boxes are closed and mixed the lady who has loaned the ring picks out the correct box that contains it. No force is used.
3.After anyone mixes the boxes you play a game of chance with two of the spectators – each selects a box – changing their minds as often as they wish. Whoever finds the ring keeps it – you of course end up with the ring while the other two participants get just empty boxes!
The description is pretty much spot on, any ring can be used and pretty much any ring boxes can be used. You are supplied with 3 boxes which will do the job just fine.
There is so much that this idea can be used for, you can ensure that the spectator always picks the correct ring out of a limitless number of ring boxes or you can ensure that they are always wrong. There are no forces, magicians choice or anything along those lines needed, the spectators selection is perfectly fair.
The method does require a little practice to get right and you'll find that some rings are easier to use than others but with some time and effort there's no reason why this shouldn't work with any ring, yours or borrowed.
The possibilites with this are endless but the effect does come with 3 very good routines that will get you started and get your creative juices flowing.
Cost £18 from http://www.mreenterprises.co.uk/viewproduct.php?id=321
Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
I'll give it a 3
Overall 8/10
This is a nice little idea that you can easily adapt for many different uses, I've got about 4 routines using what's described in those pages that I perform quite often and many more whirling around my head.
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