My only other 'The Other Brothers' purchase before this was Bandit which I thought was great.
'Taken', not so much. First, I am not sure that they can claim this as invented by them. I am not
accusing, but there are only so many ways to fold, cut, glue coin envelopes, and lots of people much
older than these two have done that work.
Even so, let's assume they did invent this. The real
let down for me was their admission that leaving the envelope with the spectator was kind of weak.
Did they not think that the spectator WOULD look in that envelope, and wonder. 'WTF?' Very
disappointed, and felt cheated.
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When I purchased Very Fair from the Other Brothers, I promised myself I would never purchase
anything they came out with again. But this is really decent and clever. It does basically the same
thing as other peek envelopes do, such as, 4-D by Bob Cassidy and Dark Arts by Matt Mello. Each of
these are unique in their own way. They all basically give you the information you need. I have my
favorite, so I probly won't be using this one. But if you don't have a favorite envelope routine for
gathering information, then this is definitely a good choice.
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There is so much set up required for this gimmick. I can’t see any place in my Acct for ever using
this when you have things like the razor wallet or psypher. Plus you give them an envelope with
nothing in it unless you preload. Sorry ..... guys...... too many better mentalist items available.
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Well it's a DIY video, they'll teach you how to make an easy impression device,no need for a special
gimmicked pen , any regular pen , marker or pencil, if you like the idea of business cards peeking
tools , this is great, very easy and very practical, you can prepare it with any envelope once you
know the secret, and in my opinion actually you could make it work with your own wallet(regular or
peeking wallet) and one single envelope instead of a stuck of envelopes, if you're amateur or
beginner you won't like it and you'll give it a negative feedback, you need to know that all the
mind reading has the same basic principle , so if you're new in mentalism go learn the basic and
only then use impression tools.
What's great that it works smoothly and they do everything .
The negative is that the envelope isn't for examination , and you need to take it back for a
reason that's teaching in the video explanation, this is why it's not great for beginners or
amateurs that don't like to speak very much with audience and aren't confident infront of people.
So if you aren't confident don't buy this one .
About the gimmick it self it doesn't look
suspicious or extraordinary because the audience does everything and it works smoothly , and the
secret move to get the information is invisible to the audience if you do it right .
Once you
know the genius secret you could build other gimmicks fits your caracter or act , you can take the
basic secret of the gimmick and make with other materials and stuff.
So don't disparage the
Trick for the simplicity of the method.
I like it because it's practical and you could use it
any time any place and surrounded if performed right.
When I first saw the method I thought I didn’t like it at all. I tend toward sleights first, the
kind sleights that are knacky to learn and go unnoticed. Next I mix with electronics like Flux and
The Watch, makes me tough to catch if you know what I mean. Anyway this is unique and really brings
me back to some of the well guarded classics of old. Will it work or is it iffy? This is one of
those ideas I didn’t think of myself or immediately like because it’s both technical (gimmick) and
psychological and in both cases it’s designed from the spectators point of view. That makes it both
effective and something that could fool magicians. I often catch myself losing the spectators
perspective, thank you Other Brothers for reminding me and for a properly designed and properly
priced effect.
There is a little bit of arts and crafts, but this is amazing. This is the best peek I have ever
seen.