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Larry Barnowsky Inner circle Cooperstown, NY where bats are made from 4770 Posts 
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The Lorayne Poker Deal from CUCM.
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cougar261084 Elite user 460 Posts
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why do you have to start your routine with a self working trick???
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wsduncan Inner circle Seattle, WA 3619 Posts
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Bannon's Play It Straight is a killer opener and while it requires a minor setup that is no problem in an opening effect.
It uses a selected card so it has audience involvement and it uses the magician in trouble/magician makes good theme which will involve the audiences emotions. Finally, when you successfully identify the selected card you do so by performing one of the strongest effects possible with playing cards: Triumph. |
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Larry Barnowsky Inner circle Cooperstown, NY where bats are made from 4770 Posts
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Hey Ace,
I hate to be the first to tell you but that effect is neither self working nor is it a card effect. |
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts
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I think it's nice for the magic to happen in the spec's hand at the beginning for a close up venue; thus:
Spectator Cuts to the Aces Out of this World Do As I Do landmark
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All proceeds to Open Heart Magic charity. |
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remco de wolf Regular user 112 Posts
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I like Annemann's Thousand Dollar Test Location, and also Mindbender from John Clark.
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Kjellstrom Inner circle Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe 5204 Posts
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LOCATION IMPOSSIBLE by Gary Ouellet is one of my favourites. It's a killer effect. I have fooled magicians and laymens badly with this one
 Easy to do and you never touch the deck in the routine. Looks impossible.
Read more here: http://www.camirandmagic.com/rt_039.html |
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Gianni Special user WILMINGTON, DE 993 Posts
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This is at least the second thread on self-workers. I am familiar with at least 3/4 of the effects listed, and as I see them in print and think of how powerful most of them are, I come around to a question that has been on my mind for some time: How do the "sleight" effects compare with all of these GREAT self-workers? Frankly, I think there are more great self-workers than there are great "sleight" effects. (I exclude from my comments effects with a mem deck, which I just think is a killer tool.) Now don't get me wrong, I practice sleights regularly and think that I'm OK, so I don't use my comments as a cop-out for not wanting to practice. It's just that sleight effects don't seem as devastating as sleightless effects to me. An astute spectator can figure out a sleight effect much more readily than a self-worker IMO.
Thoughts. Gianni |
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Magicmike1949 Special user 643 Posts
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Out of this World, Play it Straight Truimph, and Red Hot Mama all get great reactions. There is some work to be done in all, but I think they'd qualify, as self working as many others here seem to have listed them. In that same category, I'd put Juan Tamariz's Neither Blind, Nor Stupid, and his Total Coincedence; Both awesome effects.
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juan Regular user Brazil 178 Posts
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Pre Deck Ability (very, very, very good)
Untouched Lazy Man's Card Trick |
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dpe666 Inner circle 2895 Posts
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Quote:
On 2003-07-13 12:52, cougar261084 wrote: Why not?  |
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Magnum New user 89 Posts
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I don't remember where I learned this trick (apologize for lack of credit), but I have a self worker that is done entirely behind the back of the spectator. It gets a great reaction, because they get the impression that I couldn't have done anything to influence the trick.
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James Watkins Elite user 412 Posts
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I'm going to recommend a video to look at.. Easy to Master Card Miracles Volume 2. Frank, That's It is on Volume 2. There are some real goodies on there that someone looking for somewhat self working tricks will like.
Later, James |
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Sel New user 75 Posts
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Does anyone know the name of this trick?
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On Oct 28, 2002, twistedace wrote: |
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federico luduena Loyal user Spain 252 Posts
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I learned it from The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings. Don't remember the title, though.
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kevin_74 New user 8 Posts
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Mystical 13 by Howard Hamburg I believe it's called. Nearly self-working and you can add a kicker, as I've seen Takumi Takahashi doing in a video
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federico luduena Loyal user Spain 252 Posts
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It could be The Visitor, by Larry Jennings. There are several performance videos on YouTube. It's in The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings, p159.
https://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/book/73?highlight=1646 |
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Nikodemus Inner circle 1196 Posts
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Mystical 13 looks like a nice effect, but is nothing like the one described above -
https://www.penguinmagic.com/p/4127 The description in question seems to be two effects combined, into a nice routine. In the first part the Queens on the table are not used, so are irrelevant. A signed card is placed between two red Queens then disappears and is found in the deck, so a kind of reverse sandwich effect. I don't know who created this but can imagine how it might be done. The second effect is a version of the Visitor by Jennings. In the original, the deck is cut into two halves. The black Queens go in one half, and the red Queens go in the other half. So when the selection jumps from red Queens to black Queens and back again, it is also jumping between two separate halves of the deck. This is what makes it seem so impossible. There is another handling (possibly from Frank Garcia?) in which the selection jumps between the two pairs of Queens, but the deck is not split. One pair is on top, and the other in the middle. This is much less magical, in my opinion because a spectator can imagine the magician moving the card "somehow" through sleight of hand. This appears to be what is described above. |
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_Alex_ New user 55 Posts
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Prior Commitment by Simon Aronson is awesome. You do the steps and it's literally magic haha.
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Nikodemus Inner circle 1196 Posts
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I bought Raphael Benatar At The Table recently -
https://www.penguinmagic.com/p/S22025 It's got a couple of great self-working effect. (NB. for me that means sleight-free, but you do need to do a bit of thinking in these effects) The Christ Countdown. The spectator follows a fairly simple but random-seeming procedure to arrive at a card in a shuffled deck. The card matches the performer's prediction. Mystery of Kabala. Spectator freely thinks of a card. Magician asks a few simple questions. Spectator (secretly) spells the answers using the deck. Magician asks almost immediately is able to name their card. |
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Posted: Jul 13, 2003 02:16 pm 