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| Alone: A Review |
Mr. Regal is highly respected as an expert card worker and, in my opinion at least, a fantastic writer. I saw the ad for Alone in Genii and Magic and thought the description seemed too good to be true.
Well, the description is a bit misleading but the trick doesn?t suffer ? after all, your audience hasn?t read the description, right? Some of us still remember Tony Blangalo who used to hand out the instructions to the tricks he performed as he performed them.
Mr. Blangalo defended the practice by saying ?sometimes the tricks are no good but I want the audience to know it is not my fault. The trick, she is bad; just read the instructions.? Ironically, Mr. Blangalo was the only living person to receive a Broken Wand Ceremony. In fact, I think the video of a prominent magic club president breaking the wand over Tony?s head in a contest dispute is still floating around the Internet.
Your volunteer cannot select any card out of the deck. Your volunteer can select a card out of half of the deck but this is the only force in the effect. I won?t say any more about the selection for fear that I?ll tip the trick.
The instructions are clear and, as you and I would expect, expertly written.
The deck comes in Bicycle backs ? of course, the kicker ending actually has all of thefaces turning blank with the exception of the chosen card. I would imagine you could move the deck in and out of your act but it would seem strange. How or why would you turn thefaces of all the cards blank and then return them to their previous state to do another ?pick a card? effect?
Unless . . .
I performed Alone for real audiences ? albeit very small audiences ? at the IBM Convention earlier this week.…
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