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The Effect
It’s a slow-motion sandwich effect. A card is remembered and returned to the pack. Two kings enter the deck face-up and begin a search and destroy mission. One step at a time they move closer and closer to the spectator’s card…..every time the pack is spread they have moved closer. Finally they trap just one card – the correct one every time.

This happens in the spectator’s hands.

Cost
$30

Difficulty
3=Some sleights used

Review

When I was watching this, I was thinking about "Captured".. Why? Because Captured was a 10 minutes-explanations dvd for a cap in the bottle effect, and this was a 1 and a half hour long dvd for a trick that is nearly self-working.

First of all, the kings aren't moving closer&closer one step at a time to the selected card; they only move closer once, and then find it. As for the trick, it's a tad long. But in Mr. Fisher hands, that is really entertaining. But I don't think the audience is amazed by the trick. Even the spectator who found the card isn't that amazed. So if you can't control the audience like Mr.Fisher I don't think you can get good reactions with this one.

As far the Nowhere pass, I couldn't see this move at the performance section(maybe editing I didn't check back), it's good. It's a nice touch on the bluff pass, and if you like to use bluff pass; this will be a nice convincer. Maybe a little overrating the simplicity of the bluff pass but it looks good anyway.

Only one performance is on the dvd, and for a bonus they included another performance of the same effect.

Dvd was entertaining though.. It was a bit long, but I enjoyed watching it..

Overall
If you like to have a nice bluff pass for a $30, get it. I don't know if there's a full demo of the performance (I doubt it), watch it and get it if you like the effect.. Dvd is well produced though(I love Wayne Houchin).

It's a 5 out of 10 from me.

I quite expected this to be dragging, knowing that the effect can be explained in 10 minutes tops. Upon watching this, you would have a feeling that you are treated as a 7 year old kid who thinks Wayne Houchin is the predecessor of Robert Houdin.

Don't get me wrong, Aaron can be entertaining. But there are times that I want it to get over with. You know what's coming right? It's a bluff pass with tweaks for God's sake. But then, instead of moving on, he overdos one explanation with "funny" examples or whatnot.

In the end...why spend $30 for a single trick. Why did I?

Oh wait! Now I know why Aaron dragged it for an hour and a half

Noodlesoup wrote:Don't get me wrong, Aaron can be entertaining. But there are times that I want it to get over with.

That's so true.