Magic Tricks

I like this effect in general, but I am not in love with it. I have written in reviews of other effects that I will often try to guess how the effect is achieved, and then I am surprised by the actual method used. That is not the case here. I immediately had a thought of how this effect was pulled off, and upon watching the instruction, it was exactly as I thought. Without giving anything away - I think the principles behind the effect are sound, and can definitely be applied in ways that (in my opinion) would be better, but the choice of tic tac toe for the routine itself cheapens an otherwise good idea. To put this in perspective, I performed this effect exactly as taught for my non-magician, elementary school teacher wife and she immediately correctly guessed how it was done even if she couldn't replicate all the beats herself. All complaints aside, I still rate this a 4, because you can take the principles and theory behind the trick and apply that to other effects.