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I see the post by Kenneth about tricks in RRTCM, and your responses were basically to form fit the tricks
But im leaving in 2 days for a vacation with old friends that I need to impress with magic, but I only know 3-4 good tricks that i cant really link together... I need to know the best tricks in RRTCM, the ones with the most audience response.

HELP!

gravytrain wrote:I see the post by Kenneth about tricks in RRTCM, and your responses were basically to form fit the tricks
But im leaving in 2 days for a vacation with old friends that I need to impress with magic, but I only know 3-4 good tricks that i cant really link together... I need to know the best tricks in RRTCM, the ones with the most audience response.

HELP!

You NEED to or you WANT to? There is a difference.

Presentation is the key to audience response, not the trick itsself.

eh....

Hi. you should have probably posted this is my thread you mentioned, but thats okay.

I really like Designed for Laughs and Meeting of the Minds, Do as I Do (But its not impromtu at all, never try and use it as an impromtu trick. "Here, i just happened to have this deck of cards with me" is okay. but "I just happened to have this deck, and this deck too of an opposite color" is LAME)
Gray's Spelling Trick is good too!

But im leaving in 2 days for a vacation with old friends that I need to impress with magic

sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings but you can't learn anything impressive in two days, expect to disopoint your friends.

Learn a few self workers and as david said- play up the performance.

I was over at my mum's tonight looking after my wee sister. I showed her about 7 tricks and asked her what was her favourite. Bearing in mind I showed her 6 tricks in which I had spent months working on and 1 trick which was a self worker.

As you could guess she preferred the self worker the best (Emotional reaction by Dai Vernon).

I have to admit I was a bit annoyed that she was really impressed by the self worker. She said "she liked them all but that last one was brilliant"

Kenneth wrote:I really like Designed for Laughs and Meeting of the Minds, Do as I Do (But its not impromtu at all, never try and use it as an impromtu trick. "Here, i just happened to have this deck of cards with me" is okay. but "I just happened to have this deck, and this deck too of an opposite color" is LAME)

I do the Do as I Do with a single deck of cards, and steal the idea from the ID patter, getting the spec to copy what I'm doing with my ID, I then hand them the ID and ask them to find their card, when they "reveal" it to me I say wow look at the card I picked.

Could you not also perform do as I do with one deck and just cut the deck into two. Thats what I do for all my do as I do.

(There was to many do's in that post )

Yes, gravytrain, my first post was the tricks I used, but I dont just DO the trick, it takes me a good 10-15 minutes to get through each. you HAVE to play it up. Your around friends, your not David Blane who does a trick then leaves, your friends will feel empty if you just show them a trick.

Imagine the tricks in RRTCM or whatever book you like as a raw piece of meat. Nobody wants raw meat gravytrain. NOBODY... (your name = pun to this simile)

EDIT: MagicalJim- that Do as I Do idea is amazing! Mind if I use it?

Yo, Bubba:

Just take what you've got down and have some fun with them.

Just play.

Have some fun with them and just play.

You'll learn more by just playing a bit and having some fun with them.

Mike.

Michael Jay wrote:Yo, Bubba:

Just take what you've got down and have some fun with them.

Just play.

Have some fun with them and just play.

You'll learn more by just playing a bit and having some fun with them.

Mike.

I think what Mike is trying to say, is just take what you know already and have some fun with them. Just play.

I like design for laughter, you could probably get together a rough routine in 2 days as long as you are pretty adept at the glide. I find it one of the easiest moves i've learnt so far and managed to perform design for laughter in a couple of days, albeit not very smoothly, but passably