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I was really just interested in the whole story I brought up.
I think people took it as just wanting to know about the Berglas effect.

SamGurney wrote:

As for this disappointment you seem to have in the simplicity of methods;
Most all methods are simple. When we see effects we assume they must have a wonderfully amazing method behind them, this is just the illusion. This is why magic is so much more amazing when you don't know how it's done. Because the answer is simple and boring.

Great magician's aren't dissapointed at the method- they are great actors and they are experiencing the effect through the audience's eyes; that's why great magicians always retain a love of magic. Sometimes it seems like some people are searching for real magic- but that doesn't exist outside of the audiences perception.

That is essentially what I was trying to say.

Hi guys,

Just a question concerning ACAAN effect, I have been considering different ways of presenting it (I use the method of Matthew Johnson, which in my opinion is the greatest and cleanest one today, magician never touches the cards, and the deck is on the table before card and number are named).
Is it better to perform the ACAAN as itself, I mean asking any card and any number, and then the spectator counts the cards etc…, and it matches, OR do you think it may be better to do a presentation which uses a peek-pad, I mean the first spectator writes down his tought-of card, for example 7C (you peek) and then you give the pad to another spectator who writes his number, for example 47 (you peek). After that, you give a deck of cards to this last spectator, who deals the cards, WITHOUT revealing his number (he is counting silently in his head), and then stops at his number, and the card where he stopped is the 7C, it matches! Here, for the spectator's point of view, you never know the card, neither the number...

Would you advise me to do a “simple” presentation, when you know the card and the number, or does the use of a peek-device add a "plus" to the whole routine?

Thanks in advance for your answers

Hi MagicianDo. I have answered this question in the other ACAAN thread. In short, keep to the simple presentation

jim

Oh I did not see your other answer, thanks Jim! I will keep it simple and magical, because it already has got a strong impact on people...