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I have recently been performing this trick as purchased from Abrakazam, I feel that this is far superior to Bwave and the finish is a Killer..a great trick especially if you get away from the "packet trick" effect by keeping your cards inside the flaps of two different coloured boxes.

I forgot to type the Effect......DOH!

EFFECT: The performer displays two packets of face-down cards, each packet containing four cards. One packet is red-backed and the other is blue-backed. The packets are tabled, and a spectator is allowed to select either the red or blue packet. Whichever packet he selects is used. There is no magician force!


The spectator is asked to imagine that his packet consists of four face-down queens. Once this is done, he is to think of any one of the four queens - hearts, clubs, spades or diamonds. Again, this is totally free choice! A second spectator is now directed to concentrate on the remaining four-card packet, and like the first spectator, is allowed to think of a different queen.


Now, without touching the cards, the performer claims he has caused the two selections to trade places. The first spectator names his card, the performer spreads his packet, and the queen he merely thought of is reversed face up in the packet. This astounding feat is repeated with the second spectator's queen! And there's more!


The performer points out that if each of the spectator's queens really traveled across, then the backs of the selected queen would also have traveled across. The face-up queen in the red packet is turned over - it has a blue back! Now the face-up queen in the blue packet is turned over - it has a red back! The effect is truly unbelievable. And there is still more!


The performer points out that it is very interesting that the two spectators selected the particular two queens they did.. BECAUSE THE REST OF THE CARDS ARE NOT EVEN QUEENS AT ALL - THEY ARE JOKERS! And you turn them all face up toprove it!

That effect sounds amazing!

How much is it and is it exainable after the performance?

Thanx, John

John,

Twisted Sisters is £10.99 from www.abrakazam.com .

It is not examinable after the effect, but if handled well and shown as suggested in the instructions, people are so blown away that they never consider asking to see the cards.

I got this trick this morning and by lunch I had done it four times for different people the reaction is one of complete astonishment this is a very powerful trick. Most of the cards are examinable and because of the way it ends the spectator thinks they have examined all the cards anyway. A Stunning trick

twisted sisters is an amaziing trick. I recently brought it from abrakazam. It is the best trick out. When you show it to people there faces light up.

I have been using Twisted Sisters for over a year now and is one of the most requested card tricks. One of the very few 'packet' tricks I perform, It never fails to impress young and old. In short, a superb effect that will stand the test of time.

I love Twisted Sisters. And although not examinable, well worth buying, a top notch trick

[Anonymously Posted by: 'Baba Gadouch']

i show the predicted queens and then pocket them as though finishing the trick, coming back for the 'but what if you had chosen a different card' line after a pause of a beat or two, and then turning over the jokers - which takes the heat of the gimmicks, and are themselves entirely examinable.

Cheers - Doreck

[Anonymously Posted by: 'Doreck']

There are a lot of different ways to handle the trick, but my experience is what most of you have said...the spectator doesn't really think to look at the cards because they are standing there, jaw dropped and scratching their head.

If you like Twisted Sister, I would also recommend Stranger's Gallery. I won't go into a lot of detail, but you retrieve four blue backed cards from a deck and through some relatively simple sleights you show that they are all the same card. Then you show that each of them actually has a different colored back (one yellow, one black, and one reversed in color, and the fourth blue). You then show that you actually have a fifth card, which has a red back. The kicker is showing that the deck is actually a red backed deck. This trick is almost as impressive as Twisted Sisters.

I thought I'd resurrect this review as I have had it in my "magic" draw for a while, and only recently have been able to do the "move" that does it justice.

This really is a great trick - some people don't like packet tricks like this, but in my mind they have their place - and this one (for me) has enough going for it to make it well worth while.

Judging from the reactions I have been getting this will be a trick I will be doing for a long time.

I agree it is a wonderful trick. But I beg to differ that it is vastly superior to B'Wave. They are different while still being similar. the one thing you have to be careful about with TW is that the transposition at the end can be confusing to the specs in one of the scenarios (those who have it will know what I mean), while no such confusion is possible with B'Wave. Further, I think the shock of the blank cards in B'Wave gets a stronger reaction than the jokers in TW.

Jon Racherbaumer has a very cool routine called "Fried Thrice" on the market. It is a three-phase routine, the last phase being B'Wave. I LOVE this routine, and often use it to close a close up set.

Finally, I have added one little thing to B'Wave that has increased the appeal and reactions. It won't work for you as is, but you should be able to adapt it easily enough if it appeals to you:

At the end of the routine, just before the climax, you have shown that the mentally selected queen that appeared face up in the packet has a different-colored back. Then you turn over the other three cards to show they are blanks. Well, I wrote a little something on each of those cards in bold letters with a permanent marker.

So the presentation from this point goes like this: "You're thinking right now, 'How in the world could he have known that I was going to pick THAT queen--he obviously knew because he put it face up in the packet before he started and it came from another deck? But how?' Here is your answer!" I turn the remaining cards over one at a time, and the audience reads, "Great" "Scott!" "It's Magic!"

(Which, if you didn't know is the name of my act and my business, not to mention the title of mt DVD and book trilogy.)

Just bought this trick as well, and I have to agree that it is quite superb. I wasn't familiar with the "move" bananfish talks about until I got the trick, but it is well described in the instructions and with a little practice seems to work very well. The trick still works without the move, but is absolutely stunning when incorporated. Have any of you tried using this trick with other cards than the jokers (to get away from the "packet" nature of it). Reactions worse/better?

I know what you mean about packet tricks - and if you were really adverse to them I see no reason for seemingly extract the cards needed from to "supposedly" normal decks. you could keep the 4 cards from each set ready to go on the top of normal deck, and then just take the top four cards off and do the trick.

Personally I don't have a problem with the jokers - as I think it does make that finally wammy that little bit stronger - but I guess that is just personal preference.

I quite like the jokers myself, was just wondering if others had tried the trick with other cards as well and what reactions they got. The joker ending looks good, but it's fairly obvious that you've not been working with "normal" cards, whereas that would be less evident if cards from the pack were used instead. I've not actually tried it myself though.