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countrymaven Inner circle 1425 Posts |
I think the best think of a card that I have tried is when they do NOT reveal the card. I start by telling them that I could have them think of one, but this could be unfair to them because they often think of one of a small selection of obvious cards. So I show them the deck, have them look at it and mix it, then have them stop me as I spread through the cards. It is a fair choice, I do not mess with the cards. I cannot see their card. Normal deck. Then I dump the cards and reveal it. I have found that asking them to lie or tell the truth and feeling their pulse or palm, as I "get" bits of info from their mind as I ask them questions, freaks them out. They really think their mind is being read.
A contrast with this is a magician I recently saw on youtube. He was asking them to think of a card, name it, and he would reveal that card right away. The spectators saw this for what it was, a guy who knew his deck amazingly well. It was a show of being quick and clever, not a mind reading experience. I may be wrong, but from my experience, a slow reveal of the type I mentioned really convinces them you are reading their mind. Let me know of your experiences. Of course a clean m.o. to know the card is assumed. This is a topic often avoided in think of a card tricks, but I have found it to be what makes it either a miracle, or a quickie trickie. |
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Maxyedid Special user Panama 843 Posts |
IF working with a regular deck (or no deck at all) in my opinion the “best” methods are the ones who are psychological in nature rather than mechanic. They look and feel real. The only problem is that to master those methods you need to perform them hundreds of times in front of an audience; you can’t practice them “in your room” (similar to the Classic Force). They also involve a little bit of risk (evidently the more practice the less risk).
Leonard Rangel, a magician-mentalist-hypnotist-musician-mathematician from Venezuela has a think of a card effect with no deck in play, it involves just a little bit of fishing. It’s available in Penguin and I believe there is a thread here as well. Also DaOrtiz has some work on Think of Card, but it’s spread all over his work.
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Reonaru New user Venezuela 86 Posts |
Hi Max, thanks for mention my method. Like you say "Legi Mentis Tuae" allow you to perform a miracle. The spectator just think of a card and you can guess it. Need a little fish at the end that is perfect covered by the presentation.
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countrymaven Inner circle 1425 Posts |
I do no fishing and since I tell them they can lie or tell the truch, it is really irrelevant what they say. But this convinces them that you are able to somehow make sense of whatever they say, thus reading their mind.
I do not like mentalism with fishing. Much less with a think a card. every question you ask just dilutes it more and more, and more, imho. |
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ShaunR New user 52 Posts |
Ed Marlo published a Think of a Card effect that almost no one uses. If it was released as an instant donwnload, the copy would say:
You take a borrowed shuffled deck, you have the spectator think of a card, you shuffle the cards and then show them the cards in small groups asking them do they see their card, when they answer yes you instantly name it. - Deck is legitimately borrowed and shuffled - Impromptu, no set up required, no culling or key cards or memorization - You never look at the face of a single card during the ENTIRE performance (yes, you know the card they thought of and name it without EVER looking at the cards!) - No fishing - No outs or double lifts |
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Alex McFly Regular user 105 Posts |
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On Oct 16, 2018, ShaunR wrote: Sounds like the "Marlo's Mindreader"-effect. |
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countrymaven Inner circle 1425 Posts |
Thanks so much. You can find it here: MARLO´S MINDREADER
You can find this effect in the big card magic book; "The Card Magic of EDWARD MARLO" - page 236. Justin Higham has an update of sorts to this type of effect and its variants. Here : Clairvoyant, Mental Topper and The Mind-Reader's Dream, at Vanishing, Inc. I do not have it but it is worth looking at. |
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ShaunR New user 52 Posts |
That's not it, but that's a good one too. It's called Blind Mentalism.
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countrymaven Inner circle 1425 Posts |
Yes thanks Shaun. you can find Blind Mentalism in "Marlo Without Tears"
It does involve showing packets of cards. Not such clean reveal? Who has done it? I am working on tweaking the Marlo Miracle to the think of a card type scenario. |
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ShaunR New user 52 Posts |
You can set it up by telling the spectator that because it uses cards, it might look a card trick. But really, a deck of cards is just an easy way of carrying 52 different symbols (Fraser Parker line) and they should pay attention that you never look at the face of a single card. I find it's very strong.
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langston3711 Loyal user Cumming, GA 218 Posts |
For think a card, I've really been enjoying Vincent Hedan's version of Out of Sight. It's very good. I also really like his thoughts on TTTCBE
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable
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Kingman Loyal user Willow Spring NC 294 Posts |
AK47 by John Bannon has to get my vote. Here is the description as written under a review site: "Bannon's AK47 trick sounds like a dream effect from a dealer's ad: "The participant thinks of, and commits to, any card. Really. Without asking any questions, the performer removes one card from the deck and places it on the table. He has correctly identified the freely thought-of card!" The method relies on a simple concept that you probably already know, but the cunning presentation is a thing of beauty. It shows what happens when you have multiple contingency plans, and each one of those has a back-up plan. Rehearsal is required, but it's worth it. The first time I performed this, I couldn't believe how well it worked." I have to totally agree with this assessment.
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countrymaven Inner circle 1425 Posts |
KIngman, I appreciate your mention of this. The problem I have with that trick is it involves too much fishing around. too much handling of the deck and directions. I think I have the ultimate think of a card. they have a perfectly free choice, you fan them they think of it and with a shuffled deck to start, you simply close it. impossible conditions. then you slowly reveal the card. but some things are too good to reveal. In this internet age, selling or revealing a magical treasure just leads to almost complete exposure.......
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The Burnaby Kid Inner circle St. John's, Canada 3158 Posts |
In my view, Richard Osterlind really nailed this area with Radar Deck. Yes, it's technically looking at a card from a spread rather than thinking of any old card, but (a) he does it with multiple people and very little in the way of "la peche", and (#2) he not only tells people what card they're thinking of, but what card they almost thought of. L&L gets a lot of flack for easy, prepped audiences, but you can tell the reactions to this trick are genuine. You're essentially in a realm beyond conceivable method at that point.
For FASDIU, there are ways to spin Vernon's "Emotional Reaction" as a think-of-a-card effect. Tyler Erickson has an excellent one that he shares with his students. I admire "Out of Sight/Out of Mind" a bit more than I actually like it, mostly because the two great features of the trick, the extremely fair-seeming selection and the dramatic ending, have a bit of a time lapse between them. That said, I don't do the trick so I reserve the right to be wrong on that one. In this sense, I'm kinda like the Marines -- I say more stupid things before 6 a.m. than most people say all day. Apart from that, I still think it's hard to beat the ID/Brainwave approach. It's strong enough to close, although rumour has it some people open with it. That feels a bit like having the orgasm before foreplay, which sounds backwards, but then again, maybe there's advantages to be had there.
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magicfish Inner circle 7002 Posts |
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ShaunR New user 52 Posts |
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On Oct 25, 2018, countrymaven wrote: AK47 and Proximity are the most overrated card tricks ever I think. |
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Rachmaninov Inner circle 1076 Posts |
I agree for AK 47. People were raving about it. When I read it, I was very disappointed. Too convoluted. As a lot of tricks nowadays ! There is a trend now with very procedural tricks, which seem impossible to… magicians only. The spectators are half fooled because they don’t know how it’s done, but they know it can be done with all those procedures. We are losing the magic with those tricks, and I see a lot of them on Penguin lectures.
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Rachmaninov Inner circle 1076 Posts |
Countrymaven, you are right for the guy who ask for someone to think a card, name it, and he produces the card. That’s remind me David Berglas in the DVD which goes with the Berglas Effect. It is exactly what he does, and it is exactly what it looks like, someone who knows well his deck, or can find quickly any card. I was disappointed, and it doesn’t look magical at all.
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Wravyn Inner circle 3469 Posts |
For what the OP asked, the closest think of a card trick of a thought and remove, I would go with Phil Goldstein’s /Max Maven’s DESTINY from The Green Book of Mentalisim and also in Prisim. It has two ways it can go, one which is a miracle and the other is Destiny.
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dj Inner circle 1165 Posts |
Christian Grace posted a nice Think a Card on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz-ukrRn32z/......9naj0847 Darko |
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