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It depends how broadly we consider the psychological phenomena which gives rise to the retention of vision effect. The imperfections of the human visual system and the tendency of human brains to make assumptions based on incomplete or inaccurate information are widely exploited in magic...

Performer makes a square with loose change and puts paper over the bits of change. Performer then ruins the square.

I am not a part of the castle, but a few of my friends are juniors. From what I've inferred from my conversations with them, you should focus on making sure that you have an effect that showcases your presentational skills/skill as a performer/personality, as well as an effect that is...

Definitely practice, but also pay attention to how you are practicing. It sounds like you are dealing doubles consecutively, and while this is an important way to practice, also make sure that you can comfortably alternate between genuine deals and false deals. False dealing at various paces and...

Hudsons take the cake for me. Beautiful cards and beautiful box. Love the teal/turquoise color and the cards handle wonderfully.

Card 1: 2 of diamonds Card 2: 7 of spades Card 1: 4 of clubs Card 2: 9 of diamonds

Sounds like you have a lot of good foundational material. Do you have Stars of Magic? If not, see if you can get a copy. Mnemonica is a GREAT investment if you're interested in the principle around which it revolves. Only other thing I'd add is that, while the Bobo book is a wonderful...

I think a lot of the initial ire around this product was a result of people thinking "oh great, how many botched stack-deck performances are going to come out of this?" as well as the anti-practice sentiment in the marketing. It also seemed to feed the notion that memorization work (as well as...

The difficulty/ease in memorizing a stack lies less, I think, in the stack you learn and more in how you go about it. Memorizing Mnemonica, which has no easily discernible pattern (part of why it is so popular), only took me about four hours over two days and a lot of people have similar...