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I like it and plan to combine it with my geography routine. A bottle washes up on the shore of a continent...the participant picks any continent and lo and behold, the message in side matches the continent chosen....will work well with my modified version of mental safari....

DrTodd wrote:I like it and plan to combine it with my geography routine. A bottle washes up on the shore of a continent...the participant picks any continent and lo and behold, the message in side matches the continent chosen....will work well with my modified version of mental safari....

nice..

thanks...thinking about how this might work with a bigger bottle...Message in a Bottle and all that...

I guess the problem with a bigger bottle is the bigger prediction.
I don’t know the workings of this effect but I think that’s the reason for the small bottle.
But what a great idea, an old washed up bottle, you could age an old beer bottle and it would look great.

DrTodd wrote:I like it and plan to combine it with my geography routine. A bottle washes up on the shore of a continent...the participant picks any continent and lo and behold, the message in side matches the continent chosen....will work well with my modified version of mental safari....

Wonderful idea. I like it! Have a large map, then have a spectator throw a dart at it

In one of those more-common-than-you'd-like aimless wanders into Alakazam yesterday with a vague idea that I'd like to buy something but no idea what , I picked this up. I quite like it, when a magic accomplice saw the performance dvd he wasn't too impressed, that was due to what he perceived as dodgy handling and I didn't really pick it up. Some thoughts...

It's not a close up trick, much better suited to a stand up occassion.

The method requires some handling practice and has one point in particular that would benefit from decent routining (gentle misdirection) to cover a movement that is difficult to make appear natural. It's not madly clunky but certainly needs work.

As others have pointed out there's no need to use this for cards and the effect would probably be stronger with any other type of prediction, and much much easier. The continent idea was great and I may steal it...

I haven't performed it yet but there's a lot of potential to play around and create a very strong and engaging effect here. When done properly it should look very clean and the props are all examinable afterward, a point that those who don't have the effect have missed I think.

What you get represents good value for money to me. The props are well made and one utility has other uses than for just this effect. As with anything whether you consider it worth your cash or not is entirely your opinion. I think it's priced about right.