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Hi, I know I've spewed out many c*** (not the best) ideas in the past, but I think I might actually have a good one this time.
I would appreciate sincere opinions about my ideas (and commentary on its originality, or lack thereof)
Compliments would be well received, too, of course

I recently bought Elliott's book, Allen Zingg's DVD, and read Teller's thoughts on Billet Switching. I'll admit, I went out and tried it out too soon. I had a straight forward effect that got me caught 3 out of 6 times. 50%. Not good.

I watched some more Zingg and thought a bit more about the effects that could be accomplished, and came up with these:

1) After a spectator helps out on stage (or as a kind of transition piece for close up), the performer offers a reward as a thank you and places three folded business cards on the table. The spec can take as long as she likes to choose one. The performer puts it aside and asks the contents of the other two to be read out loud. They would be very cool prizes (I use PS3, Wii, and Video iPod as the prizes). The spectator then opens the third card, the one she picked for herself, and finds out she got ten cents. She gets to keep it.

This obviously has it's genesis in a Jay Sankey effect (whose name escapes me at the moment -I've been working on RGM too much). I like the effect that Sankey has, but I thought his method could be cut down a bit.

Again, opinions are appreciated.

If I have any other ideas (regarding billets) that could use some constructive criticism, I'll add it here.

Apart from rushing out too soon to perform, I would say the prize effect looks nice. I am sure that it has been done before as it reminds me of the prize shows that used to be done on stage. The instinct is good, however, keep working!

I'm not sure that's entirely original. I'm pretty sure I've seen that trick performed before where the spec opens up the two other envelopes to see a hundred dollar bill in each one but they only get a dollar.

There are some very old effects based on this idea called 'bank night' and 'just chance'. Max Maven talks about them on his 'Nothing' dvd. i believe he calls his effect 'Just Chinz'

monker59 wrote:I'm not sure that's entirely original. I'm pretty sure I've seen that trick performed before where the spec opens up the two other envelopes to see a hundred dollar bill in each one but they only get a dollar.

That's the Sankey one I mentioned. My method is much different from his, but the main idea is similar.