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ID with Ghost cards was one of my recent purchases, as allways I called my wife to show her my new trick. She is not impressed by magic and no matter how amazing the trick is she does not respond apart from 'have you finished?' A great spec to practice on, if I amaze her I will be a truly amazing magician!
Anyway, I asked her to think of a card and she chose the 9 of hearts, I removed the cards from the pack and magically one card was turned upside down and it was THE NINE OF HEARTS, amazing... NO, she looked at the (Ghost) card and said 'thats not a 9 of hearts, a 9 of hearts is RED!!! I really did not expect THAT reaction and had to try to convince her that these are special black and white cards with a small red heart etc I hope this doesnt make my wife sound thick as she is not, but it has made me think twice about using cards that realy do differ from what the laymen is used to seeing. Thought I'd share this as it did make me giggle

Stick to Bikes. They're cheap, good quality cards, and the reds are actually red!

Absolutely Tomo, I tend to use blue backed bikes but fancied the overpriced Ghosts. Wish I'd got blue bikes instead Live and learn as they say.

Tomo wrote:Stick to Bikes. They're cheap, good quality cards, and the reds are actually red!

Exactly what I was thinking

In my opinion, if you use special/fancy looking cards, then you're asking for trouble. To a layman, these cards do not look normal - and if they don't look normal and you perform a trick just using sleight of hand, they'll prob think you're using a trick deck, which is why I always use normal bikes .

Trickyfied wrote:ID with Ghost cards was one of my recent purchases, as allways I called my wife to show her my new trick. She is not impressed by magic and no matter how amazing the trick is she does not respond apart from 'have you finished?' A great spec to practice on, if I amaze her I will be a truly amazing magician!

Man, we have the same wife............ Coundn't amaze her if I flew home and came in through the window....

Trickyfied wrote:... she does not respond apart from 'have you finished?'

i get that quite a lot too

yeh, i have the same issues with ghost decks, i would really like them if the red pips were actually red!!

Brookish LOL....
If you ever find that trick that makes her eyebrows raise PM me! I've gone from SAW to Stigmata, Coin tricks to card tricks! I am going to stop my pulse next and see if that works, or maybe I should check hers? Only kidding (incase she reads this) I LOVE MY WIFE!

Disappointing - I read the title of the thread and thought it was an offer

I have the same problem with my sister. I really want to share my tricks with her once I've practiced them well, but she rarely responds to anything I show her, they're good tricks, but she's not impressed. On a couple separate occasions, I've gotten her by surprise and she is impressed, but those times are so few.

Trickyfied wrote:she does not respond apart from 'have you finished?'

yep, followed by

Wife wrote:now put the damn things down and do something useful