by Ed » Nov 23rd, '06, 22:56
Hey guy's, here is another review by me! for the trick Just Name It, by jay sankey, in my opinion this is the best trick by jay sankey. So lets get started.
EFFECT: You begin by turning the top card of the deck face up. You proceed to write a prediction across the face of that card. You then spread the cards face up between your hands and ask the spectator to name any one of the cards they see. They may choose any card; they can even change their mind. No matter what card is named, the deck is turned over to reveal your prediction is 100% correct! A remarkable demonstration of clairvoyance under the fairest of conditions!
GIMMICK: first off, let me start by saying that this trick is amazing, and it fried every spectator that I should this to. Basically what you get when you purchased this affect is a gimmicked deck of cards, the whole deck is gimmicked, thats okay though cause you can use this trick for your first trick in ur act, or do a basick deck switch. Also you can spread the cards face up and show a whole deck of 52 cards. they wont see the gimmicked part of the deck at all. So I give the gimmick a 8/10 only beacuse the whole deck is gimmicked.
SETUP: There is some set up that you have to do when you recieve this trick. Its not hard to do it at all, but it took me about 5-10 min. to do. It tells you what to do in the instructions. When you are done doing the setup for the trick then your set to do it again and again and again. This trick is instant reset, it will take you one second to set it up again so you can go and perform it again to whoever you want. so I give the set up a 10/10.
METHOD: The method of this trick is super easy. Dont worry though no one will catch what your doing if your good at a particular sleight. When I saw this trick being peformed, I was fooled badly, and im a magician so I know what to look for, so the spectators wont have a clue of what happened. This trick comes with two differnet methods to do the trick, one method which uses a sleight, and one method that dont use any sleights, I prefere the one that uses the sleight because it seems more impossible that way. I've never done this particular sleight before and I had it down within 30 min. So give the method a 10/10 because it has two differnt methods that you can use.
Now I will give some pros and cons about this trick.
PROS:
the effect is mind bloggling
it has two ways to do the effect
the sleight isnt hard to do
it will work with any card that the spectators thinks of
there is an instant reset
there is no force
CONS:
the whole deck is gimmicked
you cant do it surrounded
OVERALL: Overall this trick is amazing, casue if you think of it, you turn one card over lets say the two of hearts, and you right a prediciton on it, then you have a spectator look at hte cards and think of one anyone, they can even change there mind, then when they got a card, they say it and you turn the deck over to show that you wrote that card on the two of hearts. It doesnt get any simpler than that. This is complelly amazing! This is my favorite mentalist trick out there, unlike the mind power deck, which you need to no some things before you no what card they are thinking off. you write down a card first, and you openly turn the deck over to prove that your prediction was correct. I highly reccommend this affect to anyone who is into menatlist tricks. It will take some practice to get he slight down but it is worth it. Overall I give this trick a 10/10.