Very clever well done trick. Minimal sleights, but you have to be careful what you show and how you
handle the cards. With a different card gimmick you can end clean, which is so crazy. Your
spectators will think you are a professional con artist after seeing this. Minds will be blown. The
slower you do this trick the stronger the impact of it will be. Take your time with this one, you
may even fool yourself. Many thanks to Paul Wilson for this effect. This is absolutely going into my
everyday carry of packet tricks.
3 of 3 magicians found this helpful.
This is a great trick - I have always wanted to have a version of this old idea available and within
reach for me and THIS is it! Everything within my reach and all you need is just practice. The
instruction on the video is great and the gimmick is just fine - it will last a life time (specially
if you are as old as I am!)
Get several ….
2 of 2 magicians found this helpful.
I’d prefer to pan this trick do no one else gets it, but I’ll be truthful in saying it’s really
good. Simple, to the point, easy to follow with whatever routine you employ, and each phase makes
sense and merges seamlessly into the next. This resembles Steve Valentine’s 3, but there are key
differences. If you’re a fan of monte tricks or similar themes, this is solid and recommended.
1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
Very good tutorial.
Easy to follow and understand.
Comes with a unique gimmick.
This
version of the 3 Card Monte scam is intelligent and extremely fooling.
Lay people will not
easily be able to track back this little gem.
I love it.
1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
This gets a three star rating because three is the average between one and five.
The effect
itself and R. Paul Wilson’s tutorial are five stars.
P3’s production of this effect gets one
star from me.
P3 has gotten lazy in the production of this effect.
How so, you ask?
They
do not include any live performances by Mr. Wilson himself.
In the tutorial Mr. Wilson talks
about all the moments of magic in this routine and how to enjoy the by-play with the spectator and
also the audience management he recommends.
This same effect is marketed on this site with a DVD
and the gimmicked card needed. I found a 14 year old YouTube video wherein Mr.Wilson says he has
been performing this effect for “over twenty years”. That means Mr. Wilson has been performing this
effect for at least 34 years.
Yet, P3 did not feel that a live performance by Mr. Wilson, after
honing this effect for decades, was warranted.
Instead we get one live performance by Erik Tait
who loses his place in the routine but manages to stumble his way through it.
Did P3 scrap that
performance video and included a clean performance of the effect? No, that singular, mediocre
performance with Eriks’ interpretation and bumbling patter made the final cut.
At the end
of the tutorial Mr. Wilson asks the viewer if you have performed C.C.M.!
I turn the question
back on him and ask if he performed it, and if so, why were those performances not included in the
production of this effect?
Don’t get me wrong, Erik is a fantastic magician and his live
performance included in this production proves that even professionals make mistakes.
The
big mistake here is that we do not get to see how Mr. Wilson performs the effect for a live
audience, especially after decades of perfecting it.
I am very disappointed in P3s’
production of this great effect!
1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
This is a relatively easy routine with great responses!
I found it easy to perform I think I practiced it two times before I was able to do it I posted it
to my YouTube to my LinkedIn to my TikTok and to my Facebook. I had so many people tell me that I
just blew their minds away.
I highly recommend this easy to do packet trick It is something you
can keep in your pocket and just blow people's minds away with
They will think you are the most
skillful magician as that queen moves into places and disappears from places within seconds
Fun and easy trick to do with a good punch at the end. I’m not a professional but I love magic and
play and do tricks for family and friends. Had a dinner with family and pulled this one out after
dinner and got surprised looks and good reactions. Love this one and it’s a good one to keep on hand
at all times