Available from Bob Solari directly:
http://www.gmrcreations.com/bob/under15.htm
The Effect
The Description on Solari's website:
Magician/mentalist places a small leather wallet on table in full view. Magician opens wallet to show a single face down prediction playing card. Wallet is closed. Magician hands a volunteer a deck of cards. Volunteer is instructed to throughly mix the cards and to cut the deck. Volunteer turns over top card. Magician opens wallet and has the volunteer remove the single prediction card. THEY MATCH!
Points to remember:
Wallet is in full view at all times
Cards are mixed by volunteer
Cards are cut by volunteer
Prediction card is removed from wallet by volunteer
Deck is not gimmicked in any way
No force
No counting
No sleights
No angle problems
Wallet contains only one prediction card
Wallet is genuine leather
Resets in seconds
Can be a different prediction every time
EASY TO DO!
Cost
$15.00
Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
1-easy
Review
This trick does not play as described, but the missing step seems reasonable. I was able to perform this trick within seconds of reading the instructions. Not only that, but I got a great reaction from it, with the exception of one person, everyone I've tried it on is impressed and baffled. THe one person figured out how it was done, but then the people I know are very analytical.
The reset is very fast, less than a minute, however you can not be in view of spectators while reseting. What I do is use cards from a blue deck for the prediction and a red deck is handled by the spectator. If the ask me to do it again and I don't want to because I think they are too clever and would figure it out on the second try, I say "Sorry, it wont make sense to do it over again with the same card and I left all my blue cards at home." If I want to do it again for them I say, "Oh I'll have tomake another prediciton and I left my blue cards in the (other room, my office, the car, etc)" and then I have an excuse to get out of their view to reset.
Overall
Overall I am very happy with this trick, so far I've gotten great reactions and it takes no time or real practice to learn it. I'll give it an 8 out of 10 though, since I'd never give a 10 and would give it a 9 except I think it could have cost a bit less, more like $10, but then again you do get a leather wallet.
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