The Magicanada Project

Michael Kras · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Mental Yarn by Bill Goldman

I just bought this... looks to me like a very workable, practical, and powerful effect. Have you seen this? Do you own it? Any thoughts on it?

Here's a link, including a demo. Watch the demo and please, post your thoughts.

http://www.penguinmagic.com/product.php?ID=705

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GameKing · Joined: 02 Sep 2008 Posts: 2

I'm sorry that no one replied to your post. However, I watched the video and was not too impressed. I didn't like the 3-step process. 1st pick an odd or even number. 2nd pick something from this list that is odd numbered (or even, as decided by spectator). 3rd The revelation.

As a magician, I suspect that the first two steps are part of a force, and that all the odd numbers would suggest a popsicle and that all the even numbers would suggest something different.

I should have shown it to my wife to get her reaction.

I wouldn't expect you to confirm whether my guess is correct or not--but I would be curious to know if you found it to be an entertaining piece of magic.

Michael Kras · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject:

It's very entertaining and if you really milk the final revelation, it evokes laughter and disbelief. However, admittedly I do get a bit nervous doing the whole procedure beforehand and sometimes it can get very confusing the a spectator.
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Liam · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 424

what i dont like about that is you're loading to much onto your spectator.
when you make your spectator do all that stuff they will be so concentrated on not messing up your trick, that they will miss the magic