Magic Tricks

These days are a different time for magicians. If you want to put food on the table, strolling is out. Zoom is in.

Westview by Jon Armstrong is an awesome trick for those of you who love do-as-I-do tricks. Think about this: Your spectator performs the trick as you do with his or her own cards. It works flawlessly!

When I saw the trailer, Jon Armstrong got my attention. But as I watched the full performance, knowing what was going to happen, I was like: there's no way. No. Way. But yes, sure enough... he pulls it off just as you see in the trailer.

No secret moves. Nothing weird to tell the spectator to do. To be honest, I fully expected him to tell the spectator to do some weird and hard-to-justify move. That never happened.

I mean, when you think about it, this is a trick you've probably seen before. But for some reason, adding the element of tearing the cards and then having those pieces match up makes this seem just that much more magical. Haha! I have no idea why! But it does.

Anyway, this is a self-working trick that's easy to do. The only two downsides are that, for me, it's a little long and boring in execution (but it's totally worth it when you get to the ending) and there's a quite a few steps to learn and remember. Is it a fooler? It's a layman slayer, but to a magician, I think it's obvious that it's a mathematical type trick... but yeah, it still is pretty satisfying.

So, to sum up:
- selfworking
- easy to perform, but it'll take some time to learn and remember
- looks great
- slays laymen
- Zoom friendly
- no angles, no gimmicks, no sleights

Personally, the price is slightly on the high end of about right, though $4.95 would feel a little better. I'm very happy with it. No regrets.

Now the trick is to find spectators at home who happen to have a throwaway deck of cards that they don't mind ripping up. That may be the true trick here. LOL!

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