Magic Tricks

This is SO GOOD! I’ve been looking for an easy, yet powerful mentalism effect that uses no gimmicks, devices or preshow set up, and now I’ve found it!

I carry playing cards with me at all times, of course, so with this technique, I could perform this amazing effect at a moment’s notice, but I absolutely love the effect T.J. performs with photographs. It’s just fantastic.

Since I do think people will suspect the cards or photographs are marked (they aren’t), I think I might go the extra step to put each card or photo into opaque envelopes. This would allow for odd shapes photos that maybe are not the same photo, but are of the same person or item. Maybe a young photo of grandma matches a recent photo, or maybe a photo of an arrow matches with a quiver, or something like that.

T.J. gives a few options and ideas, including a “Cards Against Humanity” prediction. It’s funny and obviously startling to see that he had predicted all of the questions and answers to what seemed to be a randomly played game. I do think that trick is almost too good, if I may say so, because it’s so spot-on that I think it could make people suspicious that you somehow set it up ahead of time. Maybe it would be good to not get it so perfectly right. Maybe the predictions are more thematic or they are written “live”
after the cards are matched, but before they are turned over.

All that to say though, the possibilities really are endless and could play as humorous or as serious or even as scary as you like. I highly recommend this effect.