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The Effect
This is what the blurb says

One of our best-sellers! A scintillating ‘Just Chance’ routine using an expensive-looking diamond ring and three ring boxes. Here is a real feature effect that you will enjoy performing in all your shows.

·You show three empty ring boxes, which you can have closely examined and you either borrow or use your own costly diamond ring.
·The ring is inserted into any one of the boxes that is selected by an audience member and then all three boxes are closed.

Three different effects are now possible.
1. Any spectator freely mixes the boxes together and yet using your ‘psychic powers’ you unfailingly pick out the box that contains the ring.
2.After the boxes are closed and mixed the lady who has loaned the ring picks out the correct box that contains it. No force is used.
3.After anyone mixes the boxes you play a game of chance with two of the spectators – each selects a box – changing their minds as often as they wish. Whoever finds the ring keeps it – you of course end up with the ring while the other two participants get just empty boxes!

The description is pretty much spot on, any ring can be used and pretty much any ring boxes can be used. You are supplied with 3 boxes which will do the job just fine.

There is so much that this idea can be used for, you can ensure that the spectator always picks the correct ring out of a limitless number of ring boxes or you can ensure that they are always wrong. There are no forces, magicians choice or anything along those lines needed, the spectators selection is perfectly fair.

The method does require a little practice to get right and you'll find that some rings are easier to use than others but with some time and effort there's no reason why this shouldn't work with any ring, yours or borrowed.

The possibilites with this are endless but the effect does come with 3 very good routines that will get you started and get your creative juices flowing.

Cost £18 from http://www.mreenterprises.co.uk/viewproduct.php?id=321

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)

I'll give it a 3

Overall 8/10

This is a nice little idea that you can easily adapt for many different uses, I've got about 4 routines using what's described in those pages that I perform quite often and many more whirling around my head.

Thanks for the review. I seem to recall Derren Brown performing a very similar, if not the same, effect on one of his specials. Do you happen to know what I'm on about? I would go and check now but my DVDs are not really accessible at the moment (don't ask). Mr. E has lots of tempting items.

This is the same effect (but not method) as DB.
I have this and it's wonderful.

Buy it!
All of Mr E's stuff is superb and this was a real "Huh... just like that... " moment when I read it.

Seriously good stuff

EDIT: It's not a special Rep, it's Trick of the Mind - I think Episode 1 of Series 2 where he goes to Blackpool but that's just off the top of my head and may well be wrong

Yes, EZ, now you mention it, it does feature on Trick of the Mind. Very nice effect, too. I'm off to Mr. E's site for a browse....

Replicant wrote:I'm off to Mr. E's site for a browse....

Sorry! There goes your paycheque

I hate you all. I can't buy it for a few weeks!!!

I bought this a while back after it was recommended to me by Iain. Mr E is always great, everything that I've bought from him has always been really good and his prices are great too.

Its even better when you multiply the amount of ring-boxes used as a finale...

going from 3...and you finding it...then 3 and them finding it...

then finally using a few dozen of the boxes all mixed up upon a table...blindfolded, and/or holding someone else's hand over the mess and whittling the boxes down one after the other....

PayPal wrote:You sent a payment of £20.95 GBP to Mr. 'E' Enterprises

It's Lommy's fault. She told me to "go for it". I blame her.

EckoZero wrote:This is the same effect (but not method) as DB.
I have this and it's wonderful.

how do you know its a different method eh?

I have to say, this has really got me stumped. It's not really the sort of effect I perform, but as Dirty Davey says, the possibilities... I'm now wracking my brains for a reason why I DO need it

If it uses a borrowed ring, then that's not gimmicked... if it uses "virtually any box" then the box isn't "gimmicked" as such, but perhaps a particular quality of the box makes this possible... grrr...

And it really plays out as it reads?!

yup!

IAIN wrote:

EckoZero wrote:This is the same effect (but not method) as DB.
I have this and it's wonderful.

how do you know its a different method eh?

It might be, but if it is the same method then there's some very heavy editing/reshooting going on there

no gimmicked boxes and no gimmicked rings. You'll read the instructions and have a Homer Simpson 'doh' moment, but it's well worth the money

For those of us who are Worthy, there's an interesting thread on this effect over in the mentalism area...

http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic21413.php