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Totally out control

didnt make sense. you are like saying you'll shuffle, then you clearly make those joke cuts. then you say that you have the cards in a memorized order and start mixing them haphazardly.
why even bother telling them that you are mixing up a memorized deck?
i would say something about being the luckiest person in the world and how these things can be done without cheating. then you try to cheat and be like oh you caught me. i guess im no the best cheater, but i am the luckiest
give some random (most random they can get) mixes and the trick still works.
you like jump between some kind of mumbling literal use of patter, then to some kind of lennart green patter.
work on that.
 
Nov 20, 2007
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Hmm. I like how your personality comes across. The trick, a little bit less so; here are some thoughts as to why..

-You turn on your bumbling persona at about 1:30 into the video and turn it off again at around 2:30. I think that it's a great idea to go with, but if you use it, I think that it would be more convincing if you kept the persona on the entire time. For the first half of the trick, you appear reasonably articulate, ribbon spread perfectly, and speak with normal rhythms. That makes the part where you speak quickly and move jerkily kinda non-sensical. In other words, I think you play it too straight at both ends of the trick, compared to your middle bit where your actions contradict your words in a funny way, which thus takes away from the credibility a bit.

-I'd love to see you perform this to real people. Usually when I say this, it's because I don't have a hope in the world that the person could pull it off, but I actually think you can. The reason I mention this here is because it's a trick that obviously depends on a high degree of audience interaction. I think this could be genuinely funny (and admittedly, I did laugh at one or two points), and I'd like to see that effect.

-There's something about the red/black separation that bothers me. I think mostly because if your audience gets over that phase where you mix the cards, then the only conclusion they can reach is that it was a false mix - you never show the faces, you don't make any other genuine shuffles (even half genuine ones), and so forth. So there's just that one layer of deception, the semi-genuine mix. If you get over that for whatever reason, I think the reveal feels a little bit weak, personally.

I hope these thoughts help. I would actually just like to mention that though most of these comments are negative, you're one of the few people to post YouTube videos of effects whilst actually showing personality, and that's a very big positive.
 
Mar 6, 2008
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I am with prae for most of it. I would add and over hand shuffle to retain the top half of the deck.

I personally think that if you took more of a Ben Earl approach it would suit you better than the Lennart Green on that you seemed to have.

The effect is called house rules however I cannot find it on youtube.
 
Jan 19, 2009
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thanks to all of the comments ! .... i shall take in everything that you have all said and can and have done this on real people peatevong (i think) i now uunderstand what you mean and shall most defonatly think about doing that....... it is actually the easiest trick i know and is stupidly simple to pull off !

thanks for all the help guys

the reason i dont do any shuuffles all the way through is to say that magicians can cheat but there is no- way of cheating uusing this shuffle..... kinda think BUT i think i shouuld throw in one or two and at the start i should indeed show the faces ! :)
 
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