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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
These are three books
The first one covers cards, the second covers coins, and the third covers strolling close up. As the name indicates this is a "best of" by one of our best professional performers. The books, if they are not aimed to the beginner, supply all the necessary black and white photographs, very audience tested scripts and the required technical knowledge. Boxing A Joker comes from "You'll Be Pleasantly Surprised", this is Scott's take on the signed card to card box plot. The effect is dressed up with an entertaining misdirection about the joker. The routine, even though not highly technically demanding, is resorting to sleight of hand that can be learned with the trick. Open Flippin' Prediction is a revised version from The Great Scott's book Never Miss a Trick! The performer announces the name of a card. A spectator deals cards face up and stop wherever he wants. The card the spectator stops at is dealt face down. The next card is shown not to be the announced one and the previous one is clearly a different one as well. Yet upon turning it face up, the card stopped at turns out to be the chosen one. Very easy to do. A Couple Of Bandits A selected card shoots face up out of a face down deck wrapped with a rubber band while the spectator holds his/her finger on the deck. This card is then turned over to reveal that it is the only red-backed card: the rest of the cards have blue backs. It is possible to have three cards selected and signed,yet to locate all three selections! Scott indicates that he got a better response with three selections than with one. Ransomed Back A chosen card is lost in the deck. The performer removes three cards and set the rest of the deck aside. He claims to believe that one of these three cards is the chosen one. He then shows that all three cards are the selection before demonstrating that all three now have backs on both sides: there are no faces on any of them any more. These cards are shown to really have faces, but none of them are the chosen card. In fact, all three are now the same indifferent card. When the deck is spread , the card is face up at the center of the face down deck. The trick allows to learn the easy Vallarino Rumba Count (that I personally don't like but which can be replaced by other similar techniques either by Daryl or Dominique Duvivier) What The Devil? Scott's version of this Ed Marlo effect appeared in "Magishing My Way." Two spectators select each a card and memorize it. These cards are replaced in the deck, which is then shuffled and cut. Show the faces of the five top cards, one at a time, setting each card on the table after you show it. After the fifth card is tabled, ask if one of them saw his cards. One admits that he did, but the other states that she did not. Show the second spectator that the next card in the deck is not his selection either, bury it and set the deck aside. Picking up the tabled 5 cards packet, spread it face down, showing five cards. Then snap your fingers and count the packet again: there are only four cards. The first spectator’s card has disappeared. Claiming that it became invisible seemingly place it face up in the center of the face down deck. Spread the deck across the table. There, in the center of the face down deck, is the second spectator's card. Spread now the small face down packet. The first spectator’s card is face up at the center of it. Scott streamlined the handling, putting this effect within the reach of just about anyone What In The World? This Scott's version of Paul Curry’s "Out of this World" based on the J. K. Hartman routine with my twist on the J. C. Wagner ending first saw print in Great Scott! It‟s Card Magic. If the spectator thinks that a removed card is red, he/she is to place it on the bottom of the deck. Otherwise it should be dealt on to the table. The same is done with a second spectator. Except for three mistakes (two blacks and one red, to satisfy the too perfect theory) the spectators have correctly separated all the cards. No skill is required. Face Off “Jo-King,” by Louis Falanga (of L&L Publishing fame) appeared in Harry Lorayne’s book, Best of Friends, Volume 2 and required a double-facer. Scott no gimmicked variant was first published in "Magishing My Way". A spectator names his favorite four of a kind. Spread through the deck and remove the four chosen cards. Underlining a remarkable coincidence, you explain that the ones in this deck were never printed, as you show all four of the removed cards have blank faces. Facing the spectator's doubt, with just a snap of your fingers, the four blank cards become the selected four of a kind, and the rest of the deck is shown to be absolutely normal. Kings’ Nite Out The four kings are signed and then placed into different parts of the deck. One by one, they literally fly out of the deck. They're placed in a face down row and mixed, but when they're turned face up, it' s revealed they've turned into the queens. The first three kings are removed from three different pockets, the fourth from a zippered compartment of your wallet. You replace it in the wallet, while the other three kings are very obviously and fairly replaced in different parts of the deck. A spectator shuffles the deck and then spreads it face up. The kings are gone again! All four are removed from the zippered compartment of the wallet! Scott, at the end of the effect, teaches his Guinn Utility Backslip (GUB) and Spread Turnover Switch. Unpredictable This was included in Scott's "You'll Be Pleasantly Surprised". From a blue deck, you remove two predictions, which are placed face down on the table. Two spectators each select a card from a red deck. They sign their cards before these are being lost in the deck. The first spectator cuts off about a third of the deck. The second cuts the remaining packet in half. You reveal that each spectator has cut to her selection but their signatures are no longer on the cards! You spread through the deck: there are no duplicates and no signed cards. Finally, upon turning over the two blue-backed predictions, it is discovered that, not only were your predictions accurate, but the spectators’ signatures teleported on them. Uses simple moves like a Pinky Pulldown, a Swing Cut, the Hellis Switch and Ed Balducci’s Cut Deeper Force which are clearly described. Wake Me At Ten This one first appeared in "Officiously Yours" and was inspired by a Randy Wakeman's distant effect. Two spectators each select a card. The performer says that he haa a prediction and pulls a card from his pocket. Unfortunately, this card matches neither of the selections. But just when everyone thinks the trick really messed up, the performer shows that he accurately predicted both selections. Besides a deck with a joker, the effect requires ten blank-backed duplicates of the ace of clubs with marks spelling one letter of "the joker" on each of 8 of them and an exclamation point on one of them. These cards are glued on a piece of clear contact paper that will cover all the letter cards facing, in the correct order spelling “JOKER” and the exclamation point at the bottom. The edges are trimmed and the cards accordion-folded so that an ace shows. For this effect Scott teaches the Riffle Force. This enables to let the accordion unfold down to reveal the first card seven times and, by turning it, to reveal the second selection: the Joker! An effect adapted to strolling situations. Back To The Future (from You‟ll Be Pleasantly Surprised). You produce a folded piece of paper with the inscription “My Premonition” and set it on the table. Next, you remove the jokers from a deck and shuffle it a few times. Begin to deal cards off the top into a pile, pick up the dealt pile, replace it atop the deck, and turn the deck face up. Ask a spectator to tell a number between ten and twenty to arrive at a card. Remove his card, setting it aside. Repeat this process with 3 other spectators. The four selections are left in a row and the deck set aside. You open your prediction and read, “Four people will select cards!”. Noticing that the audience is not impressed, point out that there is another prediction: “None of the chosen cards will be jokers!” Still, the crowd is underwhelmed.Reveal the last prediction which reads, “The four chosen cards will be different!” Ribbon spread the deck to show it as an ordinary blue Bicycle deck. Turn the four selections face down. Each has a completely unique and different back! Everything may be examined, yet there is nothing to find. For this effect Scott teaches the Nine Force which can advantageously be replaced by Harry Lorayne’s HaLo Slip Cut (from his book Rim Shots and the first volume of his video). Universal Appeal After thoroughly shuffling a deck, it is set down. You remove three additional cards, referred to as “chameleon cards.” These are placed aside and three cards are selected from the deck. The three chameleon cards are successively placed onto each selection in turn, and each time, each of the three successively take on the identity of that selection. At the end, one chameleon card is placed on top of each selection. When turned face up, it is revealed that each chameleon card has become a duplicate of the card on which it was placed! Scott teaches here a variant of the Slip Force and uses th Rumba Count taught earlier in the book. This effect was inspired to Scott by Karl Fulves' Universal Card plot, a part of Hofsinzer's Everywhere Nowhere effect. Color My World This significantly easier handling of Arthur Buckley’s Thirty Card Problems, “Separation”, first appeared in Scott's "Never Miss a Trick." Phase One: You show a large packet of cards to be all black. Several are dealt face down onto the table. When turned face up, it is seen they have changed to red cards. The remainder of the packet is spread face up, showing only black cards. Phase Two: The red cards are tabled face down. The black cards are gathered and turned face down. Six more black cards are dealt on the table next to the red cards. The remaining large packet of black cards is tabled behind the red packet. The red packet is inserted into the center of the large packet, which is then spread face up, showing all black cards! The six tabled black cards are turned face up—they have changed to red. Phase Three: The black cards are turned face down. A spectator chooses his favorite card from among the six red cards. This card is placed, face up, on top of the face down black packet, and is then cut into the center of the packet. The other five red cards are set aside. The large packet is spread showing the face up chosen red card near center. The spread is turned over, revealing that all the cards have changed to red! There is not one black card anywhere to be found. A Triumph In Plastic On Dean Dill's videotape Intimate Close-up Miracles, there is a killer effect called "Plastrick." This is Scott's embellishment, published in "Great Scott! It‟s Card Magic!." A spectator chooses a card, which is lost in the deck. The cards are mixed up, jumbled hopelessly in a face up and face down mess. The deck is inserted into a clear plastic bag, which is inflated. Eerily, the deck slowly cuts itself, and one card penetrates through the inflated bag: it is, of course, the selection! For this trick, Scott teaches Sid Lorraine’s Slop Shuffle and Daryl’s Display. As a comment over this review, I would like to underline the difficulty to present prediction effects where the conflict doesn't really exist and the fully expected issue always comes late. Scott offers in this book several angles to get off teh prediction trap. In more general terms, this is a book by a professional offering real material not to brag with finger flicking flourishes but to perform practical magic in real life situations and not club magic to impress young fellow magicians. Every effect and every patter is written to get an extremely strong magical (not skill) impact. All the presentations are audience oriented rather than performer complacent. This remind me of the magic I loved from late masters like Tommy Wonder or Fred Kaps and I sometimes found the script possibly superior to such masters. Don't hesitate, buy it: it's not a me-too.
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Scott F. Guinn Inner circle "Great Scott!" aka "Palms of Putty" & "Poof Daddy G" 6586 Posts |
Thank you so much Lawrence, for your very kind and detailed review. I'm glad you like the book. And my scripts being compared favorably with the likes of Kaps and Wonder--well, I'm just speechless at that!
"Love God, laugh more, spend more time with the ones you love, play with children, do good to those in need, and eat more ice cream. There is more to life than magic tricks." - Scott F. Guinn
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
Well you were guilty as charged in the first place...
Magic is the art of emotionally sharing live impossible situations
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slyhand Inner circle Good ole Virginia 1908 Posts |
I may have to pick this up.
I am getting so tired of slitting the throats of people who say that I am a violent psychopath.
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