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I've been doing magic tricks for my friends here and there and once or twice did the ambitious card routine at parties but I'm starting to look for a different kind of response. I get the usual wows and thats cool but I was beginning to think in a different direction.

I might be too inexperienced for this kinda stuff but I was thinking more along the lines of total confusion to the point where they question what they just saw but yet know something totally weird/magical happened.

I am a big fan of a group called Improv Everywhere that goes out and stages huge "scenes" that are made to just utterly confuse people and I think it could be accomplished in a much smaller scale by magic.

I've seen Derren Brown do the painting swap move and the directions swap which is a foot in the right direction that I would like to go but I'm looking for more than that. David Blaine gets those kind of reactions but his personality and the trick just throws it off for me.

I mean like one shot deals, if it's on the street do a single trick not aimed at anybody and that alone would confuse people to begin with. I'm rambling I guess. I'm just wondering if there's any publication out there on that kind of thing or even maybe a nod to some tricks that look absolutely amazing physically that isn't really done face to face.

I have a whole load of ideas but nothing really specific, I've been contemplating this kind of thing for at least 2 years so if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears

To be honest, if presented effectively and with an air of mystery, the ACR can leave people so confused. Look at Tommy Wonder, when the card came to the top, he would often act confused himself! This helps as it seems to have happened by accident and not skill.

Yeah, I do like to do that sometimes or say I'm going to be say cutting to the card exactly after having the spectator place it in randomly but low and behold I messed up and the card is at the top. I've tried my best to act the most sincere and the best reaction is after they've signed it and I've brought it up like twice and then on the third time when I do the little wave and flip the top card and it isn't there card so I do it again and it's the same card but not theres. I then like to do something else for a second and they really think I messed up but then I say something like "oh, know I remember what happened to your card!" and I pull it out of my shoe

Everyone seems to like that. I try to have them pick another card real quick and maybe even sign it if they don't buy it but I have to keep it short as to not actually mess up pulling it from the shoe.