Magic Tricks

First... heads up that that the product listing says the lecture includes Reswindled Again, Sleightless Sightless and Out Of This Packet. Those are NOT covered in this lecture. Penguin really should fix this. But I'm not knocking off a star, because the lecture is quite good and includes four other things (plus a performance of a fifth item) not mentioned in the description.

Here's what's included:

Find Three Kings + Sly Cheese
Corner
Humming Words
In Your Face Transpo + Mercury Card Load
multi-stage coin routine
Convergence
performance only of Over The Top
Courtesy Flush
Creation

Noteworthy: the only trick repeated between this lecture and his first Penguin Live lecture is Over The Top. That one is fully taught in the Penguin Live lecture, while the version performed here (without explanation) is a different variation of the trick. In some ways the one here is stronger, and you can probably work out the setup between the explanation of the Penguin Live version and the performance of this one.

The coin routine here is several tricks combined into a multi-phase routine. The full set is along the lines of his Shades Of Silver and Bluffed Across, plus Gary Jones' 3Fly Plus. (He gives full credit to Jones and mentions that Jones gave him permission to demonstrate the trick here.) It includes two full performances and makes up 28 minutes of the total lecture.

He does trip himself up a bit in the explanation of Convergence, and Greg Wilson isn't exactly helpful there. If you want another source for it, it's also part of the Ultimate Self Working Card Tricks Volume 2 set from BBM as well as a bonus trick on his Annihilation Deck DVD/download.

Overall this one is great when paired with his first Penguin Live lecture. This one has the big coin routine. That one has the copper-silver-ring transpo. For business card effects, this one has Humming Words, and the Penguin Live lecture has COAT. For visual effects using card boxes, he covers his Mercury Card Load here, while he starts the Penguin lecture with a Sharpie production from a card box. For his lesser known (but strong) packet tricks, Courtesy Flush is here, while Distinguished is in the Penguin Live lecture. Corner is here, Exposure is there. Convergence is here, Red Hot Prediction is there, etc. Each lecture is good, and together they are even better.