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Good ACAANs?
- Thread starter AKong
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David Berglas has a very good one that has just recently been released. Check out The Berglas Effects by Richard Kaufman.
Barrie Richardson has a practical one that is in his new book "Curtain Call".
I do a variation of it.
I do a variation of it.
The best one I've come across is Barrie Richardson's from Theatre of the Mind. It uses a memorized deck.
That said, I really think this is magician's trick. I've had people--several times--name a card and name the number that corresponded to that card in my memorized deck. I didn't have to do any work at all. Perfect ACAAN. The reaction? Good, but never great. This is the holy grail of card tricks for magicians because there is no perfect solution. Every method will have its give and take. The effect on layman though? It's just OK. Even the times I've had perfect ACAANs, it still was not one of the effects that people talked about later.
I get much stronger reactions doing a variation of Paul Vigil's "Prime Cut." Similar effect, but spectator is more involved, and it's more direct. They name a card, then they immediately dead cut directly to that card. Kills. Real amazement every time. There's some nice subtelties you can add if you're using a memorized deck as well. Also, another similar effect to ACAAN I've really gotten a lot of use out of is Andrew Gerard's "Extraordinary Proof" from the True Astonishments set. One of the best sleightless tricks ever in my opinion.
That said, I really think this is magician's trick. I've had people--several times--name a card and name the number that corresponded to that card in my memorized deck. I didn't have to do any work at all. Perfect ACAAN. The reaction? Good, but never great. This is the holy grail of card tricks for magicians because there is no perfect solution. Every method will have its give and take. The effect on layman though? It's just OK. Even the times I've had perfect ACAANs, it still was not one of the effects that people talked about later.
I get much stronger reactions doing a variation of Paul Vigil's "Prime Cut." Similar effect, but spectator is more involved, and it's more direct. They name a card, then they immediately dead cut directly to that card. Kills. Real amazement every time. There's some nice subtelties you can add if you're using a memorized deck as well. Also, another similar effect to ACAAN I've really gotten a lot of use out of is Andrew Gerard's "Extraordinary Proof" from the True Astonishments set. One of the best sleightless tricks ever in my opinion.
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Another option is to learn a second deal and just have a spectator's card returned to the deck and control it to the top. Start dealing cards off onto the table and let them call stop and then deal their card....this gets killer reactions.
Mat, I met Anthony Gerard a few months ago at Magifest in Columbus. He is not a well known guy but his material is "unreal". He is an outstanding magician.
Mat, I met Anthony Gerard a few months ago at Magifest in Columbus. He is not a well known guy but his material is "unreal". He is an outstanding magician.
Nice. I'm sure that was a pleasure. Gerard has some excellent material. Great thinker.
Max Krause has a terriffic ACAAN on his website http://innovativedeceptions.com/ called macaan it does use a subscription of 20/year, but the effect is KILLER!!!! no difficult moves, no crazy slights, no memorizing!!!!! its amazing
chris mayhew's caandy looks pretty solid check it out: http://www.vanishingincmagic.com/magic-downloads/card-magic-downloads/caandy/
hi is cold out side... mmm ive been loocking for the best acaan i know berglas had one , some one knows a book or something like that to learn this clas of acaan?
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