Magic Tricks

This is a great little trick! It is truly impromptu... borrowed pen, borrowed dollar, zero prep, one tiny, itsy, bitsy move. It can be done surrounded and it is very visual, the way I like it.

I've seen a variation of this before that, to me, seems a little too obvious. To a drunk spectator, yeah awesome dude! But anyone slightly sober would be like, "oh that's cute".

However, that variation is not nearly as good as this one! Granted, if you think you know how this is done, you're probably about 85% right. But there are some little problems with my imagined solution. When I watched Jason give the explanation, it turned out that my solution was the right idea, but not exactly there. Jason's solution works great and, if I would have tried "my" version, I'm sure I would have had "FAIL!" somehow pop up over my head.

So, it's a really good trick. Even if you think you know how it's done, unless you're willing to work at it and make some mistakes along the way, I say get this. Jason teaches some nice subtleties that really make this work... it's the difference between an experiment gone wrong and a very visual (and tactile) piece of magic.

To be honest, I think the price is a tad high for the trick (which is mostly the reason for docking off a half point)... but again, it's visual and the price is definitely affordable. I'd rather pay the current price than figure this out through trial and error. I think I would have been happier to pay $4.95 for this one, like a blizzard trick... but at the current $9.95 price, I am still satisfied.

Great job, Jason! Get this, folks!

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