Magic Tricks

This would have been fine as a $9.99 download but at $29.99 no thanks. The gimmick that is provided is mind-numbingly obvious once you see it. It's kind of what I thought it would be, though I thought it would be put together in some way to make the trick a little more automatic but it is not. You will need to use some basic coin sleights.

The gimmick that is provided will need to be refilled. It is a large piece of something you will be cutting pieces off of for each performance. Fortunately it's not hard to find and pretty inexpensive, which is part of the reason this should have been a download. It's nice to have some of the material so you can go at it right away but not necessary. I already had some of the gimmick laying around my house and so may some of you.

I also thought there was going to be some ingenious way, with maybe some kind of special ink that the signature would be transferable to the other coin via the gimmick to end clean but I don't know what I was thinking, perhaps that would be too much like real magic :-)

So that leads us to my biggest problem with the effect, if you want to end clean and leave the spectator with their signed coin you have to tell them you are going to sign the other side of coin for them and hope also they don't scrutinize their own signature too much.

The other option would be to do the transposition and then make their signature vanish from the coin all together when you hand it back to them. Maybe use some type of patter line about how defacing currency is a federal offense.

This is one of those effects that you will not be impressed by the method and you will have already thought of it yourself but also thought to your self, I don't think it's really gonna fly. If you like the visual appearance of the signature and don't mind being extremely bold to clean up then maybe this is for you but I don't think I will use it.

If you like the idea of this trick but it doesn't sound like your cup of tea, take a look at Tandem by Justin Miller. I think it is a cleaner, more practical and workable effect. I suggest it highly, it is also only $8 as a download and there is no gimmick material to run out of.