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curtgunz Special user Only 99% of users have more than 784 Posts 
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I would imagine that this has been covered, but since the Magic Café has done the "Amazing Search Engine Vanish" I cannot find it.
When you borrow a quarter from a spectator and switch for a gimmicked on, have you been having trouble with people noticing a different back on the various quarters on United States quarters? If so, how have you dealt with it? By the way, I understand that the "Amazing Search Engine Vanish" is going to be changed into the "Cut and Restored Search Engine"
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Daegs Inner circle USA 4291 Posts
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The state faces are all the same... so use a gimick that shows face side and have 1 old style and 1 new style.
Only have the state face and just make sure that they give a state. Do a false take so it looks like you pull gimicked coin right from their handful of change... Just patter through it, and if you think they noticed then switch to a different trick using their coin.... |
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sodman12 Special user raleigh 601 Posts
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Well I think the wost is if the gimmick is shinner or more dull than the specs coin. to me this is worse so maby get them to offer more than one coin and take a pick. or do the false take
you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but never all of the people all the time.
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FatTony Regular user Dallas, Texas 121 Posts
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I have an ungimmicked quarter that is the same state as the gimmicked, and I let the spectator examine it before doing a switch.
This eliminates the possibility of someone seeing something odd. I don't think it detracts from the effect as long as you let someone inspect the quarter before hand and your switches are where they should be.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Einstein
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On 2006-02-27 11:22, FatTony wrote: Perhaps if you start with a handful of change. Inspecting merely sets us a puzzle and hints at trickery. Borrowing the coin also brings in the audience via a committee of the loaner and their coin.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Review King Eternal Order 14446 Posts
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On 2006-02-27 10:25, curtgunz wrote: Did you read why the search engine is not available? Maybe you shoulddo that before making wise cracks.
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FatTony Regular user Dallas, Texas 121 Posts
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Good point.
So you think I should pull out a handful of change and casually take the one I need?
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Einstein
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Daegs Inner circle USA 4291 Posts
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Why not have THEM pull out a handful of change and just pull your gimicked coin from the coins?
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2006-02-27 12:36, Daegs wrote: What, exactly, will you return to them at the conclusion of the effect? If you perform this often it could become a very expensive effect. |
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Daegs Inner circle USA 4291 Posts
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A regular quarter that matches your gimick....
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Julie Inner circle 3943 Posts
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Another idea...use the ungimmicked coin as an indicater in a card effect or develop any other reason for the coin to be handled by the spectator in the course of another trick (or maybe add it to his pocket change); then do the penetration almost as an afterthought...
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FatTony Regular user Dallas, Texas 121 Posts
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That's a great idea Julie. Somehow get the ungimmicked duplicate into their hands for a first effect, then perform whatever you will with the gimmicked after making the switch. It's very subtle, I like it.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Einstein
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tbaer Inner circle Pennsylvania 2004 Posts
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FatTony, I pretty much have a regular coin that matches all my gimmick coins. For the newer gimmick quarters I have the same states for the regular quarters and for the gimmick coins that have dates on them, I have regular coins that match the same dates. Then I can let the spectators examine the regular coin and then do a switch. Even when I purchased the silver kennedy half dollar gravity flipper from a well know coin maker, I also purchased a regular silver kenneny half to match the flipper. That way I never have to worry about a spectator replying that the other coin had a different date or etc, etc.
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JTW Special user Florida 670 Posts
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My solution involves doing a trick before you do the cig./ pen thru effect. It uses a small piece of aluminium foil applied to a quarter. Switch their quarter out for this gimmick. Scratch off the aluminium and voila' you have a quarter to match! The pretense is that the new quarters are actually just old ones plated over to look new. You have an even trade (you give them the old quarter back at the end) and you don't have to worry about borrowing coins for this effect again.
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