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I can't recall who is supposed to have said it now, but we all know that Curry's 'Out of this World' was called, 'The best card trick on the last hundred years.' I was just thinking that we might like to proffer our 'Best Trick' (let's not limit it to card tricks, eh?), as OOTW was invented in 1942, so perhaps that's a dignified enough wait.

This is slightly different to the threads that regularly appear asking, 'What's the best impromptu card trick for me?' or 'I want to know what the best coin vanish is.' Those are after simple, practical advice - this is more a tipping of the hat in respect. Thus a little suggestion of why you think what you've put up for consideration deserves the honour might be appropriate.

Just as an exmple, you might nominate Parker's 'Passing Thru' because (1) It's a thoughtfullly different approach to the coin in bottle problem, (2) it's essentially angle-proof (and low risk), and (3) Well, you slowly push a coin into the side of a bottle while the specs watch it go through: i.e. it's utterly impossible.

You might put the trick forward because it's simply, you know, 'beautiful' - like Green's Laser Beam Deal, say. It does probably need to be wholly original, though: to pick something at random, Sankey's 'Fan Mail' (the version with the girly purse and and names signed on the bills, at least) is quite, quite lovely, but it's an application of someone else's basic bill switch method, so I think it'd be hard to argue that it had that extra hundred years worth of something.

What are your suggestions?