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David Penn's Mystery Solved


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"The next big thing is HERE!" - Eric Jones

The World's leading magicians, creators and historians have heralded David Penn's Mystery Solved as "The Holy Grail".
In any lighting conditions, close-up, walk around, parlour or stage you will be able to perform the cleanest and clearest switch ever!!!!!

  • A killer ending for card to impossible location
  • The perfect solution to the dream card plot
  • The most direct and fair Confabulation routine you have ever seen.
Mystery Solved has been perfectly engineered and custom made from the ground up, to provide you with a method that you will enjoy using again and again and yet your spectators will never see a thing!

As Marc Oberon Said - "When I saw Mystery Solved I couldn't believe a switch was occurring".

Utilise Mystery Solved as your finale, in the cleanest and clearest card to box ever, or to reveal a prediction.

A signed card vanishes from the deck only to be discovered in the clear box that has been isolated under a wine glass the entire time!

In a mentalism routine your audience can see you place the prediction inside an empty box. After asking for random information from your audience members, the prediction can be tipped out at fingertips, before being read out loud by a spectator.
  • The card is tipped out at fingertips making the retention of vision incredibly strong and deceptive.
  • The box is only half the size of a deck of cards!
  • The box is instantly empty and clear!
  • The contents can be changed/customized in three minutes!
  • You can place objects in the box and clearly tip them out!
As well as the thinking behind Mystery Solved, the accompanying DVD which was shot on location within London's Shard, provides a wealth of information including David's card routine guest star - Peter Turner describes devious ways to use Mystery Solved in mentalism routines.

Here is what some of the world leading performers, creators and Magical thinkers are saying about David Penn's Mystery Solved:

"The next big thing is HERE!"
- Eric Jones

"That is ***king Incredible! One of the best things I have seen in ten years! I'll use this"
- Peter Turner - The Perceptionist

"David Penn has created the HOLY GRAIL of Card To BOX"
- @PeterEggink

"What The **CK!"
- @trollcarl (Tom Stone)

"Holy Moly! That has to be real magic. There is no other explanation"
- Jonathan Levit

"That is Beautiful"
- @benhanlin

"I can't believe I just spent two grand on a prediction chest and this is so much better!"
- @ali_cook

"This is an incredible invention and the perfect tool for working magicians"
- Sabastien Calbry

"CLEARLY the best device for an impossible location effect!"
- @jeffprace

"That is an absolute miracle!"
- Brian Kennedy

"David has created a box of such transparent scrupulous veracity, so honest yet so brazenly pathological. This box should not be able to switch anything for anything else, yet it does so without a shadow of guilt!"
- @MaxSomerset

"I need that now!"
- Wayne Fox

"That is just perfect"
- @MathewYoungs

"Mystery Solved is so ****ING sweet!"
- Bobby Motta

"When I saw Mystery Solved I couldn't believe a switch was occurring"
- Marc Oberon

"No more wooden boxes, mint boxes, jewelry boxes or candy boxes. The Holy Grail has been found!"
- Chris Kavanagh

"That is just GENIUS!"
- Rus Andrews

"This is the best effect I have every created, Including Coinvexed. I am proud to introduce it to the magic community"
- @DavidPennMagic

******** TV Rights and all Video For Profit Rights are reserved by David Penn. Please contact the creator if you wish to use this effect for such a purpose *********

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To expensive and you have to "construct" the gimmick Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 7th, 2015
I made a box like this when I was in high school shop class. Cost me about 2 bucks.
Love David Penn but this is sub par for him.
Box is to huge to put in pocket
Double stick tape? Really?!
I prefer another not so well advertised clear box that is smaller and fully examinable not that most people give a hoot about the box.
Again love David Penn and he is quite clever but this is an over priced disappointment.
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The Holy Grail has been found! Report this review
Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on December 5th, 2014
I've performed some form of the mystery card/signed card to impossible location and predictions for decades. I've used envelopes, wallets, paper clips, wooden boxes, mint boxes, jewelry boxes and candy boxes.

Thanks to David Penn's Mystery Solved, my search is now over!

The construction of the box is flawless and it's secret workings is diabolical. It's so well made that it looks exactly what it is: a clear, little box that holds an isolated playing card, prediction, or bill/bank note.

It's perfect for all venues. From close-up to stage, Mystery Solved works. It's small enough to be carried in your pocket, so it's perfect for restaurant and walk around gigs.

You can have the box on the table or even have a member of the audience hold the box.
The box is completely customizable and items can be changed out within minutes.

Of course it's perfect for card magic and you can use ANY brand of cards, with ANY back design. But it is not limited to card magic.

The applications for mentalism is unlimited. From routines with paper money to predictions and confabulation routines, Mystery Solved elevates the magic. The legendary Peter Turner is featured on the DVD discussing applications for mentalism.

The DVD is beautifully filmed, with crystal clear instruction so that anyone form full time Pro's to Hobbyists can perform their favorite style of magic with it.

Mystery Solved isn't just the "latest/newest" flavor of the month trick. David Penn's Mystery Solved is a bona fide game changer!
4 of 5 magicians found this helpful.
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pricey, but you get what you pay for! Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on May 10th, 2016
hey, listen guys... if you read some of the lower rated reviews, the comments are true--- you have make PART of your gimmick, and yes, the box seems "overpriced". but let's be real here, this utility gimmick is frickin awesome. so versatile, and im happy to make my own "gimmick" b/c it allows the creative freedom i want from a trick. if you're not super tight on funds, just add to cart... the dvd and all else is great, and i know ill be using this for the rest of my life. SOLD!
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Great Item Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on December 31st, 2014
I have used it now for a great ending to the Ambitious Card routine and also for Mentalism. All I can say is get this item it is worth the price and a great utility device for any performer. Get this item.
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Mystery Solved Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 7th, 2015
Simple,direct and very good. Disarming audience when you can flip the card above, The fire is an element with punch in front the people and the restoration is jaque mate. 1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on December 17th, 2014
This is the best kind of gimickrd prop. No one thinks about it after it performs its function. Great trick.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on December 16th, 2014
I used Mystery Solved in performance for the first time on Saturday night, inspired by David and Peter Turner to use it for a Dream Vacation prediction, as the closer to a 2-hour act, and it brought the house down. With a handling revealed by David in an extra video he released, it was flawless and absolutely incomprehensible to the volunteer and an audience of more than 60 who were watching. Electrifying result, and my first standing "O"... very happy customer.

It's every bit as good as it looks and better. David released an alternate handling filmed by another magician that was absolutely perfect for me. I had a volunteer imagine a dream vacation, picking a place (Egypt), an amount of money she took with her ($3,000), and a celebrity she'd seen there in a hotel lobby (Omar Sharif), while I jotted down the details on a small pad in a notebook. Then she came to the stage as I tore out the notebook page and handed it to her asking her to confirm the details. Then I directed everyone's attention to a podium at the other side of the stage where there was an upside-down wine glass with the small clear plastic box on top of it (Peter Turner's suggestion) that had been in plain view for over an hour, and a folded note inside the box with the words "I had a Dream..." written on the outside. I had the volunteer look closely at the box, then cup her hands, I lifted the box with two fingers, held it over her hands, removed the lid with two fingers of the other hand, and spilled the note out into her hands. SHE opened the note to find it said, "I had a dream that I went on vacation in Egypt, that I took $3,000 with me, and I met Omar Sharif while I was there." She was totally stunned, along with everyone else, including my wife!
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Could have been perfect Report this review
Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 13th, 2018
The idea is Great!
The way the gimmick works makes it easy for performers of lower levels and less experience to perform a handling that will look good and convincing.

What is not convincing at all, in my humble opinion, is the size of the gimmick. Look at the trailer, you will see that the card inside the box from the start is not folded in half, so it's way bigger than what will end up in your hand seconds after. Even though we magicians notice things most people won't, I still think some laymen may pretty well notice something is quite wrong with that change in size from one second to another.

Even when Learning Mercury Fold, you never end up that far from folding a card in half. The amount of time needed to do a MF that would look like the gimmick is nonsense.

So I ask, why? Why make it that size? Why?
A smaller box would have result in a smaller gimmick, which would have been much more convincing even for magicians. A smaller box would have also been easier to carry in pocket. Would have also make it easier to perform. A smaller box would have simply make this effect almost perfect. Period.

The card inside a of mystery box always looks weird. But this one... the discrepancy between the gimmick you see and the chosen card only adds up to the weirdness. I'd never let that thing on the table for everyone to look at while performing an ambitious routine of whatever trick it is. Bills and billets probably look nicer, but with Bicycle back cards, this is what it is. Maybe Bee cards would look better.

Quality box material, nice idea, quality filming on the DVD, nothing to download, awesome inputs from Peter Turner, 80 minutes of video total. You can make 4 different cards back with the material supplied, or have 4 chances to try making a nice one if you're not really crafty..

Be careful with your angles, especially when the box is sitting somewhere. I believe some environments and lightning conditions could also make this one a bit tricky.

Hope this gets re-released in a smaller version.
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Very deceptive and great for confabulation. Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on November 22nd, 2023
I performed this for a confabulation routine and it looks just great. You do need to put in some practice to get the handling right and not flash anything . When you do, it looks really convincing. Great for a parlour confabulation routine or even for stage. I performed it for the first time tonight and excited to use it again.
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Perfect Utility Gimmick! Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 29th, 2015
As always, David Penn delivers! I've used several switching boxes and this is by far the most versatile, easy to use and deceptive. David does a nice job with the instructional DVD and the interview with Peter Turner got my mind racing! The potential alone for billet work and predictions makes this a must have. My ONLY criticism is that the "extra inserts" David provides so that you can customize the object in the box could be better quality and is prone to scratches. The material works just fine, but is a bit fragile. The good news is there's a superior material available at better craft stores in the US. I've upgraded my box for $3 and now it is incredible!
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