If you haven't seen this incredible card trick from Mark Mason and company, you will in the upcoming weeks. He sold out at FISM and also at the SAM convention in a day and a half. David Copperfield was so impressed he bought two. It is essentially a card prediction and the spectator names any number of cards to deal down to revealing the matched card. Mark makes these decks himself and the mechanics of the trick is quite impressive. This trick fried a lot of magicians at the SAM convention and of course everyone shown bought a deck. I do not believe this is on his website yet but members were tipped off by email on it arrival. This will be the hottest thing since Extractor. Look for it soon.

If Anyone has a link please share

There's a review here:

http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......um=109&0

Had it a few weeks now it is a real killer trick and magician fooler too , well it was at fism

Is "X-ACT" the same as "ADDICT" by Wayne Dobson?

magiclee

Any trailers for this yet ?

It is not the same. Does not use the wallet.

The effect is pretty much the same. You have a prediction- they select (by counting down to) a card, the prediction matches.

It is a any card at any number effect true. The method is completely different.

Seems I was lucky to pick this up

Although I haven't yet tried it or set it up there is some clever thinking here. It looks very clean and it's easy to do

Some points to note yes it does involve some maths though certainly not anything difficult or anything that wouldn't be involved in any other Card at any number effect. Any number can be chosen apart from 52 which is easily handled by stating a number between 1 and 52. What I like about this is that there is no awkward handling of the deck the cards are simply dumped from the box onto the table and the number counted to. You are presented with two handlings of which the 2nd is probably best as the prediction card is on the spectators hand at the start so there is no suspicion that it could be manipulated. Be aware that you will need to purchase some extras for this 2nd handling if you don't already have them in your collection of cards but nothing that will break the bank.

Let's see.....
We have x-act
We have addict
We have insane from theory 11 with Andy Nyman

All the same, all different? Same basic effect, no wonder we 're all broke........ How do you decide?

Watch the videos when they are posted magicHart and then decide which would fit your style of magic. I have all 3 and they each have a purpose in my close up routines. To say which is the best, that's a tough question. As magicphill says, "there is some clever thinking here" with X-Act.

Actually it is not Any Card at Any Number but Card at Any Number, as the prediction is in view from the beginning and spec only calls out any number - but still very strong

I decided on insane. Why? Just looks so clean and having the specs inspect the deck beforehand is a huge plus for me.

At this point in time, x-act is not available anywhere, sold out at fism and the sam convention in las vegas which ended a few days ago. Sent an email to Mark who replied that
they would again be available in about a week.

I have this. this is so similar to The Grail. little bader.
I give this trick 2 stars of 10.
one of the worst purchase this year.

What did you a expect, it's a caan so it's bound to be similar. I think you are in the minority about how good this is.

Thanks for the info. I have the grail so will deffo pass on this.

I would agree with rowland on this...gimmickless is one of the few who don't seem to like it. It's somewhat
similar to Grail (which I have) but nowhere "so similar". I would choose X-Act over Grail any day.

Tom, or anyone who has both, do you have the fiddly bit whilst taking the cards out of the deck with X act?