Derren Brown- Smoke

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Derren Brown- Smoke

Postby Magic_Drummer » Jan 20th, '07, 23:30



Well I finally reached that point in the book and I'm really excited to perform this after ample practise but for all of you who do this trick I'm wondering what deck I should buy to help me out with this trick...It mentions John Kennedy's Mind Power deck is that what I should buy? I was thinking that The Radar Deck may work as well but I'm not positive...Help me please. Thanks.

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Postby Farlsborough » Jan 20th, '07, 23:49

Well, if JKMPD is good enough for Derren...!

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Postby Tomo » Jan 20th, '07, 23:50

Trying not to give anything away here, but you don't actually need either to do this one. Mindpower will enable you to finish what seems to be clean. It's really about narrowing the percentages very efficiently indeed.

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Postby JackWright » Jan 20th, '07, 23:58

Tomo wrote:Trying not to give anything away here, but you don't actually need either to do this one. Mindpower will enable you to finish what seems to be clean. It's really about narrowing the percentages very efficiently indeed.


yes, very much so. Personally I would find smoke impractical to use reguarly (because I dont smoke for one reason!), but good luck with it anyway.

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Postby Magic_Drummer » Jan 21st, '07, 00:05

Can someone pm me if they use anything besides the mind power? Thanks guys, I appreciate your help...I want it to look as clean as his does...I don't think he uses the MP deck but he mentions that that is what we will need in order to perform it as seen...

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Postby MarcLavelle » Jan 21st, '07, 22:19

the deck Derren uses is a specific-made one, ie to his own method
but the mind power is essentially the same as the one he uses. and it works for me!

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Postby Magic_Drummer » Jan 21st, '07, 22:21

excellent, I guess I'll have to pick one of them up.

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Postby Mr Toucan » Feb 6th, '07, 17:19

Don't forget you can get the Mindpower with standard Bike back now so it doesn't look as odd when you pull it out after using bikes for previous tricks

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Postby Magic_Drummer » Feb 6th, '07, 21:17

Ya I've yet to order it yet...

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Postby Marvell » Feb 6th, '07, 23:15

TheGurkha wrote:the deck Derren uses is a specific-made one, ie to his own method but the mind power is essentially the same as the one he uses. and it works for me!


In Devil's Picture Book, he says it's a Mindpower.

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Postby MarcLavelle » Feb 7th, '07, 11:23

The method I regularly employ used a gimmicked deck. I printed onto blank stock, cards with indices that do not match at the corners................... A gimmicked deck is now available that will do this job very well with a little alteration; namely the Mind-Power Deck by John Kennedy. I would recomend the item unreservedly for anyone wishing to perform my effect.


Pure Effect, by Derren Brown, page 122, paragraph 3.

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Postby beeno » Feb 7th, '07, 14:55

In Devil's Picture Book he actually uses a mind power deck, and shows how he disguises it by laying a red bicycle card on top of the pack so as to hide the backs of the mind power deck.

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Postby Mandrake » Feb 7th, '07, 16:14

Have a look at http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic1207.php for full details of disguising the old Mindpower deck and further coments. The Search function is a very useful tool at times :wink: !

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Postby In kaleidoscopes » Feb 7th, '07, 17:31

just tried working this in with "warning" by garcia...

incredible.

and yes, mindpower deck is the most effective way to go.

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Postby sharky1236 » Feb 15th, '07, 23:45

can sum1 plz explain how mindpower decks actually work, cos no one ever seems to. thanks :D

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