Duality by Gary Jones
Posted: Jan 14th, '07, 22:19Duality by Gary Jones
Available from: http://www.topsecretmagic.co.uk/main.html
They say:
Once in a while I have the privilege to be the exclusive distributor of a great new effect! Wow! This is outstanding and has impressed many of the best working professional magicians in the business today!
Gary is one the countries Top Professional WORKING Magicians. He eats, breathes and lives magic 24 hours a day if he's not performing he is coming up with a dozen different ways to produce the same effect until he finds the very best and most effective way. Finally Gary has been persuaded to part with some of his best effects... I am proud to say Gary has been a close of mine for many years and has asked me to make and distribute them for him... The first of these is here...
After placing a deck of cards on the table the Magician asks a spectator to THINK of both a number between 1-52 and any one of the 52 playing cards in a deck but not say anything yet! Then in full view writes two predictions on the reverse of his business card, a number and a playing card… Only now does the spectator tell him what number and card they were thinking of and these are then written under the magicians predictions. Taking the deck of cards, the magician explains that on the backs of the cards are written the numbers 1-52 in a random order. He now searches through the faces of the cards and removes the spectator's thought of card, turning the deck over and searching through the backs, he then finds the card with the spectator's thought of number on it. On the reverse of the spectators thought of card is the number the magician predicted. And on the face of the card with the thought of number is the very playing card he predicted.
Remember…
Only one deck is used - which is on view BEFORE the trick commences.
The Predictions are made BEFORE the spectator says anything!
No Sleights, no Forcing, no Rough & Smooth
And it instantly resets
This truly is the perfect working performers miracle! As you can guess I like this one! "M"
Price: £20
I Say:
Well you can't help but compare this to Trilogy(which is a very fine trick indeed) or rather Trilogy streamline available here http://www.alakazam-usa.com/acatalog/Downloads.html. Think of an even more streamlined version of Trilogy streamline and you've basically got the plot.
Unlike Trilogy which ideally needs three spectators, Duality is a one on one effect where the spec makes two choices, one of a number and one of a card. There is a bit missing from the advertising copy above that makes the effect possible but the presentational aspects that you need to consider are really not much different to Trilogy streamline. Because its a duality rather than trilogy effect the reset is easier and so Duality possibly has the edge if you wanted to use it for table hopping.
Overall
If you've already got Trilogy or Trilogy streamline you could well be disappointed if you get Duality as well as it is oh so similar. One thought I had was to perform Duality, ditch the deck in my case and then perform Trilogy, the original version, which could blow some minds. The cards and cases are compatible which would allow this!
You cannot repeat Duality twice for the same audience, same as with Trilogy, but there's nothing stopping you doing both and pretending its the same deck.
If you haven't got Trilogy or Trilogy streamline then none of the above will make much sense probably but I can recommend that you purchase Duality (or Trilogy for that matter) for the simple beauty of the effect. 8/10.
