Free Effect: ESP (Extra Sneaky Prediction)

[Michael Kras]

Hey everyone!

I've made a short video featuring a free mentalism effect of mine! Why? Just as a small Christmas gift from me to you! I hope you enjoy it and get some use out of it, I think it's a nice little piece of close-up mentalism. I'd love to hear what you think of it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGw-CgqyUPw

Happy Holidays!

Michael Kras

 

[brendan1980]

Ooh, I quite like that. Might try it on the wife when she gets home.

 

[D ICE R]

I like it more than a certain effect on the wire.

Personally I would make the prediction the wavy lines with the numbers 1 and 5 written on the back and the envelope respectively. The main reason being one and five are the least likely to be chosen especially when you ask for a number between 1 and 5. Also these are the two weakest reveals.

 

[Michael Kras]

Thanks so much for the input! I like your thinking on that for sure.

 

[RickEverhart]

Michael, I like the effect and very glad you shared it, however I wouldn't exactly say it is a "NEW" effect. All of those forcing methods / outs are covered in many mental magic books. Good job though and it plays simple and hits hard for layman.

 

[Michael Kras]

I would have meant new as in something new I've worked on, not new in effect or method, but to be fair, I never said it was new It is of course just a system of outs, but one I think works very well. Glad you like it!

 

[RickEverhart]

Oh ok got it. Something new for you. After I posted that I thought you might interpret it like that....ha ha. For people who haven't seen an effect like that yet, yes, it is a nice little pocket effect, easy reset, etc.

I think along the lines like you though. Anytime you have a spectator count from the right to the left...they know something is not quite right.

 

[brendan1980]

I used it on a couple of guys at work and it worked really well. Might be good to have two or three sets of the trick set up with different reveals so that it's never done the same just in case someone sees the trick more than once, not sure if that would be possible though, what with the number '5' meaning you HAVE to go with the star shape. If you are confident that the number '5' would not be picked then it could be done with any other shape as the reveal though.