Magic Tricks

The other brothers explain this trick very thoroughly and clearly. You can be doing this trick 5 minutes after you finish watching the video. You will notice that in performance Darryl has his hand in a very unnatural position when he shows the card. This trick could've been workshopped for about 5 more minutes to avoid that, it took me less than that amount of time myself. I'm shocked that with such big names involved on this trick they didn't. My only guess is that they wanted this trick to be insanely easy for the biggest beginner and that is the easiest way to do it.

Let me preface this next paragraph by saying that most of my performances are for parlor (audiences of 40-120). So when Rick Lax said this would be great for parlor, I was super excited.

Now in every show I do, I do one or two card tricks. Things like the insurance policy Rick mentioned work great. A card to impossible location or mentalism with cards also work fantastic. The issue with this trick is that the magic happens on the floor or on the table with little tiny pieces. Transmitting what happened over to a larger audience is very difficult and most of the "magic" will get lost in translation unless you have a video camera that you are projecting onto the wall or a screen, but if you're doing that you could do any close up trick as well.

That is not the audience you want to perform this trick for. You want to perform this trick for a small crowd of about 10-15 people. Maybe if you've been performing street magic and have drawn a crowd about that size and want a trick which which screams BIG FINALE, then you should do this trick.

My second issue is the price. This isn't quite a $15 trick. For $15 I would expect something a little more mind-blowing. However, if you don't have a better closer to a set for a small crowd and this is filling that need then by all means it is worth $15 and you will be very happy with your purchase.