Magic Tricks

I find this review difficult to write. There's so much hyperbole in the magic marketplace, it sometimes makes categorizing things difficult. This is not, in my opinion, the best bills across ever created, as the ad-copy suggests. (I think Fred Kaps would agree with me.) In fact, it's hardly a trick, as-is. It's a gimmick, which is essentially a method, for revealing a small stack of bills to be either 3 or 5 of a denomination. It doesn't strike me as the kind of thing I would want to perform on its own. Even the creator suggests tagging it on to another 50/50 kind of routine, such as a “which hand.” That may prove a good placement for this piece, but it's hard to tell, without seeing a well thought-out, time-tested routine. In my opinion, it's not ready for sale. It's a reasonably interesting idea, but it doesn't belong on Penguin; it belongs in a magazine.