When I first read this, with a deck of cards, I followed the instructions and at the end my jaw just dropped. IMO, the two strongest card tricks of all time are “OOTW” and Simon Aronson’s Shuffle Bored. It is ready to go again and again and again. And you know what the best thing is? It resets automatically. The fact that it is also a magician fooler is just a great bonus, but I have had great fun watching the spectators reactions after doing this one. It is the card that was initially looked at!!! And if that wasn’t impressive enough – then the next card is turned over – and yes. Funnily enough it is at exactly the same time as the spectator is thinking stop. The spectator acknowledges that they know what to do and the magician starts dealing cards down once again. Remember do not name the letters out loud just think of them as I count down. The magician deals cards off the top of the deck, one for each letter, and on the last S of diamonds, he says and now you would think stop. He demonstrates as if the spectator was thinking of the None Of Diamonds. The magician explains that the spectator should spell out the name of his card in his head, and THINK stop on the last letter of the card. The top half (actually about three quarters by now) is then cut by the spectator a few times and eventually the remaining cards from the bottom are dropped on top. And we do not know the card on top of it. So now the specs card is buried somewhere in the top half of the deck. The spectator then cuts another portion of cards from the bottom half of the deck and plops that on top of his shuffled pile. If the bottom half of the cards are now plopped on top, and you knew the bottom card, then you now know their card is under the bottom card. The top half is then shuffled by the spectator and they note the top card. Let me tell you about a few of my favourite effects, that IMMEDIATELY became part of my working repertoire. It does not contain hundreds of different effects, although for each effect it does mention, it discusses it in great detail, explaining many variations, principles, and ideas for patter along the way.
What I am going to say though that this book contains some of the strongest self-working effects out there and for me this makes this particular book worth it’s weight in gold. I am not going to mention all the effects. Anyone that knows me knows I prefer effects from the easier end of the scale and I really do like this book.
There are 5 sections in this book and the difficulty of the effects vary, although I have found nothing that is too complex. Do I really need to say any more?ġ=Even I can do it, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,Ĥ=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only) I have read it from cover to cover and I have performed many of the effects therein. I have now had this book for three or four weeks.
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