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Can you look into its stomach and find the four cards inside?

You start shaking the box and they hear card sounds instantly turn into coin sounds. Then you pour out the contents and they find four silver dollars with no cards in the box.

What i believe causes that is this: No explanation is provided. In every effect, it's best to not provide an explanation, even if it's an impossible one. For example, if during a prediction effect, you say you can predict the future, then the audience will think "That's a pretty cool ability...

I always have Deck of Cards (Usually Bikes) 5 and 1 Transpo Gimmick Optic Wallet Gum Sometimes i'll carry other gimmicks around with me when i feel like it.

Can it be done with one of these?

OHHH YEA!!! I remember you. You're that one guy from the Anonymous thing. Ok, i trust you.

He only does it alot cuz people keep telling him to so they can get it on video. How do you know it's his favorite flourish? They said they dont pick favorites with their material.

From what i've heard, Dan never does Pandora anymore. He only does them cuz he's requested to. If you listen closely on his China lecture clip he says "I haven't done this in a while, but i'll try." Dan and Dave are too busy creating more stuff. They hardly do the trilogy flourishes anymore.

You can also use Daniel Madison's Advocate to guarantee that you can pull out the card they're thinking of.

No, pick up Strong Magic by Darwin Ortiz. It's got loads of great stuff on routining. EDIT: I said this on some other thread so i might as well put it here. Opener- A quick, amazing trick to grab the audience's attention The number one rule for an opener is that it must be quick. Meaning...

Listen and listen close. Cuz i have seen this problem a lot throughout magic. Opener- A quick, amazing trick to grab the audience's attention The number one rule for an opener is that it must be quick. Meaning, there's little amount of time between the beginning of the trick, and the first...

I won a Pressure DVD for free, so do i count?

Wait, do i count? Cuz i won the DVD for free.

It doesnt really make sense. You're supposedly doing the bridge when springing in the Truffle Shuffle. The spectator would see it as: Cards are weaved, cards are bridged......OMG they're weaved again!!! Know what i mean? The purpose of the spring is to simulate getting rid of the weave.

Archimedes' Bathtub The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking Let me start off by saying that this booking has nothing to do with magic. But this book has benefited my magic more than any other book i own. Why? This is a book on breakthrough thinking. How did Leonardo De Vinci create...

I often here tricks that have "NO Pipe Dream!" written on them. I was just wondering what the heck a pipe dream is?

Darwin ortiz talks alot about this in Strong Magic. The main rule for openers is that it must reach the first climax as fast as possible. You can't have a trick with 5 minutes of patter before the first climax as an opener. The opener is made to grab people's attention, and make them want to...

What's the method behind Robert-Houdin's Light and Heavy Chest (a.k.a The trick that stopped a war)?

You can do some visual stuff like the Hover Card and whatnot. To grab their attention.

lots of these were answered in the SNC video.