Magic Tricks

First of all, this is a great concept and lends itself to some powerful moments if you play it right. The spectator makes all the choices yet ends up on an exact time in an exact place from numbers they created on invisible dice. If you are a good storyteller, you can really build on this.

Unfortunately, there are downsides. First, one of the outs on the printed tickets doesn't work. It needed to be the number BEFORE the chosen number, but they made it the number after, which makes it impossible to hit the ticket. That means you'll have the ticket seat kicker only if they hit the number perfectly, rather than any wiggle room.

Second, three of the locations are perfect, but one of the locations will mean absolutely nothing to 99% of the people you perform this for in America. They will have never heard of this place before and have no idea what to visualize. Unfortunately, you can't substitute this in any way, so if they land on this place your only hope to pull off the picture part is to have them Google it because they will have never heard of it if they aren't from Europe. As an alternative, you can skip the picture revelation and just go straight to the ticket prediction.

The watch is good but unfortunately has a second hand on it. That means you can't just let the battery die and keep using it. It also means using it live will force you to do a little mental calculation to get the prediction time to hit perfectly. Sometimes you may end up close but not on it, though the spectator will probably still see it as a hit. Or just replace the watch with a non-functioning one without a second hand, and it'll still work for the routine.

Finally, you need two identical paperclips but they only include one. While this isn't necessarily a deal-killer, it's a special color and size that you won't easily replace. You can use regular paper clips, but the coating on theirs protects your props so you'd do well to do some searching online.

The project is good but just needed a few tweaks before going out. You are given two sets of prediction tickets, but I wish you'd be given some blank areas to write your own predictions on. You can scratch out the wrong numbers and right the correct ones on there, but it'll be obvious you did.

You can perform this as it is, and you'll probably get great reactions most of the time. If you tie this into a great story, you'll have a great routine.