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What is your favorite type of trick?

-Card magic
-Coin magic
-Handkerchief magic
-Match magic
-Dice magic
-Money magic

What type?

-mental
-prediction
-scary
-supernatural such as telekinesis.

Any missing? Just let me know.

Cards........in a restaurant/pub setting!

as above but i do like the odd scary trick too

Anything as long as it's entertaining

What kind of person would rate "Match Magic" as his favourite kind of trick???

It sounds mercenary, but the type of magic the audience thinks enthuses you should be the same as whatever it is they want to see. If they want card tricks, give them card tricks, not rope magic, etc.

MagicalMaster wrote:Any missing? Just let me know.

Yes, MagicalMaster, this is missing! Do your thing!

Coins, I love impromptu magic and coins are always available

I like tricks where people can say oh yeah I know how you're doing that but then you do something that makes them turn round and say - but that's just blown me away, how did you do it, I don't know now!!!

[ENTER: Opinionated Old Guy...]

The kind of magic that will be my favorite, when it is finally made tangible, is the kind that inspires newbies to stop posting these redundant "What's your favorite... who or what's the best?" type questions vs. taking the time to just look through the archives of any forum and get a feel for what's what.

My favorite Magic is the kind that is done well and reveals the performer's sense of dedication, discipline and passion.

My favorite Magic is the kind that inspires; be it a small child whose eyes twinkle as they see the impossible made real or the intellectual that becomes perplexed and so dumbfounded that he (or she) tastes just a bit of honest humility... enough to drop them down a peg or two so they can be on par with the rest of society vs. smug and arrogant.

My favorite Magic is the kind in which a young and inventive lad uses the most elementary of techniques, leaving the old and seasoned adepts floored in amazement, extending kudos and platitudes of all variety onto the deservent vs. those who brown-nose and play politics.

Like music I can appreciate any and all forms of magical presentation; though I loathe them, show me a good card worker and I will most certainly reveal applause and appreciation... sadly, good sex is far easier to find vs. "good" card workers who are likewise entertaining. But then when it comes to good magic, finding a 16 year old virgin for spring sacrifice could prove the easier task.

My personal "love" and first mistress in this mess, goes to the world of the grand stage illusion but my passions of the here and now, lean towards what most known as the bizarre and psychic -- mentalism. In truth however, the theme of things surreal and macabre is my constant in life, the tricks are merely punctuations to the telling of the tale.

I adore pure, honest clean close up magic... especially cards.

Although, anything close-up which makes me tingle inside does the trick. Sponges, coins, cards... it's all good.

I abhor poorly co-ordinated stage magic which is all prop based..

I detest anything which involves coins, cans and bottles lately.

And if I see another body levitation, I will puke.

I like cards,coins and mentalism to hell with it even sponge balls if the settings right. I will have to agree with Siege as cans,bottles and levitations are starting to bore the pants off me too. Everytime a new coin through bottle routine comes out i cringe because theres to many of them and they are alot of them which are virtually the same methods. Also alot a lot of them say you dont need this you dont need that but in my experiance half of them dont do what they say on the tin, well on the bottle in this case.

Close-up, with examinable apparatus, or at least very well switched-in gimmicks and gaffs (card magic can be amazingly augmented with something as simple as a double backer...).

Like Seige, I have very little interest in proppy stage magic. I like things that happen in people's hands.

Overall I would say that my preferred type of magic is "impossible". I am soooo picky when it comes to the magic I buy, then extra picky when it comes to what I'll perform. I don't like magic that makes people go "ahhhh, heh heh, very clever", I like magic that truly confounds people... they just saw me tear up a card... they had absolutely free choice as to when to say "stop"... but... but...

For this reason, I have been doing more mentalism of late (sorry, "mental magic"), because in people's minds it removes the option of legerdemain, leaving them with nothing to believe that you knew what they would choose, or you could tell what they were thinking.

I like magical magic.

close up and personal...

whatever guise that takes...and as long as they're being themselves...

if i had to trim it down:
the elegance or hap-hazzardness of a good card worker
or anything wierd or mental-based...