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Ed Wood wrote:Can anyone go out and perform this effect now from what I've said? No, absolutely not, it would be impossible to reverse engineer. People will have no idea what the effect is and they won't be able to discover that until they buy the DVD.

The reason I did not name the effect is for a number of reasons.

1. I find it hard to believe you missed it, when there are only 2 card effects on the set, and thought it might be possible you were fishing for information.
2. Your thread title mentioned the method behind the effect. (Granted it is not the WHOLE method, but it may as well be.)

As to that previous quoted comment, I'm afraid that yes... they pretty much can now. You have said the method, the type of routine (plot), where the foundations were taken from & mentioned that there is another thing necesarry to have the whole routine handed to them on a platter.

I'm not one of these artsy fartsy types who bang on about exposure... I truly couldn't care less, and you're right that it shouldn't be an issue and probably won't hurt. Doesn't mean we need to expose all the time unnecessarilly. (I assume someone sent you the name of the effect in a PM, the P means Private)

OH and PS. Good equivoque can fool magicians and mentalist's by the way.

David Regal has a version in his big red book ( cant remember the name , its in my bedroom 6000 miles away). He uses the setting of a building on fire and the cards are various people trying to escape and so they gradually succumb to the flames and thin down to one card.. the one in the envelope. the storyline gives a fair impression of choice in who lives on and who bites the dust and so i guess thats what your paying for, storyline engineering

Also Marc Spelman has a version but with his envelope, its on his big DVD set from Alakazam . ... also allows some free choice at the end. the problem with his version is the big envelope is suspicious even though it carries an A4 letter to cover this. Regal version is 100 per cent EQ

I think David Regal's effect is called Hotel 52, or something very similar. The 'big red book' is Approaching Magic.