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The Effect:

Interlude is designed to be an ultra clean card Mentalism effect, where the spectator names a number between 1 and 52, any number at all, completely free choice; you count down to that number and low and behold that card matches your prediction. (you can either tell them your prediction in advance, or keep it inside an envelope or so on)


Basically it is a force; but here are the cool points to remember when using this very clever force:

1. The method behind the force is genius, it was invented by a guy called Hondo, and that is a man I want to meet.
2. All the cards can be shown at the end of the trick to be completely free and ungimmicked.
3. There IS something I have missed out when describing the effect -and that thing IS the secret behind the method- however the "thing" is so small and insignificant that no one really notices it. Its such a normal and natural thing to do that I (a paranoid little guy) am confident people will never notice.




Pros:
1. Clean
2. Simple
3. Great effect, looks like real mentalism
4. All cards are shown to be different at the end of the trick

Cons:
1. You must reset the deck by counting them back out again (you'll see when you watch the dvd) which can look silly and take a few seconds.
2. You need to know your three times table.




8/10
Its a very strong, simple, pure effect; with nothing complicated, just mental magic. The reason I did not give it a 10/10 is because of the annoying reset which MUST be done mid-trick in order to show all the cards are different.



Tom
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Sound like a similar marketed effect , The Chest Of Nostradamus, that i was indeed going to buy but more expensive.

anyway whatever.. count me in for one. cant wait to try this out

Is this available in the UK

IMHO, this is far better than the GRAIL.
Before purchasing, I was concerned the spectator might notice "something" when dealing because I knew the secret, but I was wrong.
Spectator truly can deal.
The 3 thing is a no brainer and is justified.

Just got this and will use it soon hopefully. Bought it from Alakazam

The deck cannot be handed out unless you take chances like Andy Nyman used to in some of his old effects and sweat for 10 seconds...not me. My blood pressure is high enough as it is. Although you can show it clean

As for this verses the Grail ill have to use both and see. The Grail does have the small move if the number isnt spot on which is a bit fiddly and this is the big advantage here but i think the jury is out

Actually i worked out a good CAAN usinh Henry Christs old 202 force so you use a normal deck with a double backer but you have to slide count the cards of the top face down. But you can show all the cards at the end.

After some research it turns out that this method was actually devised by none other than RW Hull a long long time ago. I have to refer back to the DVD but i think the Japanese guy Hondo claimed all the credit or someone claimed it on his behalf

I thik may Hull invented this method in 1906 and is evidenced in the Encyclopedia of card tricks printed around 1960, i do believe.

I was only reading that book this week and did not pick that up.
Could you give me the reference (page) in the book.
pm me if you wish

I'd be very interested
many thanks

PM done

Aslo check out the Mirage Deck. A nice subtlety here.

I only started reading this again after Dale Shrimpton mentioned the correct inventor for the Siamese deck the other day

Its worth reading the whole section end to end. Stange how one thing leads to another. ( i also usually ignore this section)

Cheers