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Space Cowboy by Josh Burch


Everyone falls in love with Space Cowboy. They mix and match the crazy characters, and somehow you perfectly predict EXACTLY how they do it.
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Space Cowboy — The Mix-and-Match Prediction Miracle

They scramble the craziest characters imaginable… and you predict the outcome every single time.
What appears to be an innocent children’s matching game transforms into a powerhouse mentalism routine that is as charming as it is impossible.

Will they create the Astronaut Ballerina?
The Dancing Sheriff?
With Space Cowboy by Josh Burch, the combinations are hilarious, surprising, and—most importantly—perfectly predicted by you.


Here’s What Happens

  1. You introduce a set of vivid mix-and-match cards featuring wild, whimsical characters. Each card displays either a head, a body, or legs.

  2. Your spectators freely mix the cards, laying them out to form completely unique, totally unpredictable combinations.

  3. And then—without hesitation—you reveal that the characters they created were perfectly predicted on the back of the packaging long before the trick even began.

It’s clean. It’s fair. It feels utterly impossible.


Why Performers Love It

Space Cowboy is built on clever principles and multiple devious methods that keep the performer in control while the audience believes they had all the freedom in the world. No complicated sleights, no reset, no scripting gymnastics—just pure, joyful astonishment.

You receive everything you need right out of the box:

  • Bright, high-quality illustrated cards

  • Multiple handlings and routines

  • A prediction system that hits every time

  • Characters that are as memorable as they are zany

Adults are floored by the impossibility. Kids are captivated by the colorful chaos. Everyone walks away smiling.

The cards even look and feel like a real party game—adding instant credibility and charm to the effect.


Space Cowboy by Josh Burch is fun, fooling, and irresistibly engaging.
Your spectators will have a blast mixing the characters—
and you’ll have a blast revealing you knew exactly what they’d choose all along.

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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on August 12th, 2025
I love the cards and the look of them. Easy to do, takes up little to no space, no cumbersome gimmicks either.

Which is why it is 4 stars as the reveal is odd/goofy. Why? Having a custom made fancy card that matches the playing cards makes no sense! Why would I have one of those on me anyways?

I junked the reveal and handdrew my own. Made it look like a kid drew it and can say my niece/kid made a prediction before I left the house today. I keep one in my wallet and the other in my pocket. Or i have 2 envelopes and do a Magicians Choice with the spectator.

5 stars for everything else, minus one for not having the reveal look way too professional
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on November 4th, 2025
The main trick taught is a completely self working trick. There are a number of variations taught that are excellent but a couple require a lil bit of extra work. The main trick is sooo good it is all I use. This is a magic trick that is great for any age audience. Younger audiences will like this as much as older ones. I was a tiny bit worried my adult audience might be a bit underwhelmed but they seemed just as fascinated as my younger aged audience. I watched the vid and practiced just a short while and was ready to test it out on my wife. Since I run all my tricks by her first she is probably most likely to spot the trick. She completely missed this one. She guessed that maybe there were a limited number of outcomes but I merely showed her that there were 9 cards that could be placed wherever she wanted and that did “the trick” so to speak. Again great trick, beautifully designed and printed, fun to perform!
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on August 28th, 2025
Easy, simple to follow, simple to do, wide age-group. Great for the price.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on September 30th, 2025
The routine does indeed work as described (and it's a unique plot), but after playing around with it I kept wondering why they didn't take it a step further. The trick is very one note, and the setup is more involved than the punch line. The best reaction I realistically see coming out of this is a "huh."

Josh is clearly a clever enough magician to make a substantial routine out of this "exquisite corpse" plot, and the method could be expanded to characters with even more body segments. I really do respect the fact that the download comes with several other effects, but truthfully all of those effects are pretty contrived and clunky.

Also the illustrations are a little sterile, but I can't fault Penguin for differing in creative tastes there.
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