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Price: £45 from my local magic dealer

The Effect: Seemingly make an audience choose any number you wish them too, ask three or four people to write down numbers on a pad, then ask another person to add up the totals -they can even use a calculator if they want- and you have correctly predicted the total.

Not only that, but you can make them think of any total you want, for example you can make them total to 1000, or the date (261109, 26th of the 11th 2009) or you can make it total to a telephone number!


Difficulty: 1 out of 5
The method is basically self-working, but so totally worth it. If presented right it can make you look like an absolute genius.


Quality: The leather pad you get is very good quality, and it looks very professional and just like a genuine writing pad. No one would suspect such a thing. I have seen 4 different wallets for Add-a-Number effects and this is by far the best one.

This will greatly improve any Add-a-Number effect you ever do, my only complaint about it is that the magnet is not as strong as I would like it to be, it is perfectly servicable, but it could be stronger.


Overall: 9/10



Tom
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Or you could do the Carlyle version for less than a pound

the carlyle method is super clean, and lets you have the numbers re-verified if you wish to...great handling, sensible and logical...

thats nothing against the horwitz stuff, love basil's work - got this and the wallet (and all the books)...if you're working a high-end gig, then maybe the horwitz will add or fit in more with the classiness of the overall impression you may want to make...

they both have a lot going for them...

I'm sure I've seen banachek do something similar in one of his PSI series

DrTodd wrote:Or you could do the Carlyle version for less than a pound

Of course you'd have to buy instructions on how to do the Carlyle add a number first. So that would be about another £20.
Personally I'd stick with the Horwitz wallet.

well, the entire first dvd is twenty quid..so, kinda yes, kinda no...