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Luseif - That's what I was thinking, Luis, your effect sounds more like an Open Prediction variation than an ACAAN personally. It may be more precise to call it a CAAN effect, but I'd still lean towards the OP plot. An Open Prediction plot is basically where the magi places a prediction...

Sure, I get that. Sometimes I love an idea but really just have trouble fitting it to a presentational hook. Or, I read a presentation, and I just have to change it completely because nothing about it fits me at all - it's not convincing. As far as card sandwich effects... The key to...

Moore Majik, Many people sell effects but reserve the television rights to those effects simultaneously. Whilst I'm not in the know about the legal ins and outs of the proceedings, nor T11's policy on this issue, I do know that it's possible. If you really want to submit it, I would contact one...

Correct! Incorrect!

Fair enough, whatever you find most effective - but a suggestion might be to use peripheral vision. You don't need to glance down at the deck in a suspicious way, though...

Thanks for the review, Casey. It's a very interesting read. For one, I didn't realise so many of the methods used a gimmick. Not necessarily a bad thing, just a curious thing to note. From everything I've read about it, I'm glad I didn't pick it up - but I do think that there would be value for...

If you do this, you'll love this bit of advice. DON'T crimp/mark/jog/short the 26th card. Instead - use one of 20-22, or 29-31. Why? If you've ever faro shuffled, you know that cutting to the 26th card is actually quite easy to do most of the time without a break. With a bit of practice...

I'm sorry - I thought I had posted and responded to this, but apparently I hadn't. One book I always suggest to magicians looking for something relevant but not magically related is Peter Brook's The Empty Space. Simply a wonderful book, and one of my top three favourite books on theatre.

Meaning doesn't come from a trick buddy, meaning comes from you. You have a trick, and you give it meaning - that's the way it works. To take what you've given as an example: The first effect in 13 Steps is one of my closer effects for my routines. It's a number prediction. Where the meaning...

Alright, a few dot points: -Six Hour Memorised Deck: I've heard good things about this. However, its big selling point is that you can learn it in six hours. As I mentioned, I learned Mnemonica in two and a half hours - so I find the idea of this one redundant - although I admittedly have never...

Sure. Like you, Michael, I work as an actor. Although I don't necessarily agree with what you've written on that - I agree with the essence of what you are saying. The two are indeed highly complementary. I'm also currently completing a psychology major at university. I spend a lot of my free...

There are many types of stacks. There are stacks such as Aronson and Mnemonica (which I use) which are full memorised stacks. There are stacks like Osterlind's Breakthrough Card System which are calculation stacks. There are stacks like Si Stebbins and Eight Kings which are cyclical stacks...

Craig, Your comments are generally correct, but in this case, so is reverhart. Hank Lee has a particularly bad reputation for an online shop for having products "in stock" when they are, in fact, not - and having poor communication regarding this matter. It's a fair call to make the warning...

But insulting someone and throwing a tantrum is totally cool. Look, if you're gonna support your mate, at least make it less obvious.

Small correction, make that Mnemonica. :)

Not sure - I couldn't when I first bought UI, but maybe that's changed. Asked PPC. The gimmick can certainly be used in a Sharpie, though.

If you wouldn't perform the same trick eight times, why would you perform the same thing within the trick eight times? Magic is not inherently interesting. There's a surprise factor to it, but a card rising to the top, disappearing, appearing, or being found has no inherent meaning other than...

Well, your choice, just depends on whether you want everyone to confirm that everyone has made mistakes, or whether you want to actually do anything about it.

1. Not if you mean impromptu. You can set it up to work with a wide range of things, but not everything, and not impromptu. 2. Only if your pen runs out of ink. The gimmick does not need refills 3. Yes. It's not a new concept, but it works well. I've used it, and it works as it should.

...My stash is worth how much?! o.O