Price$11.50
Media TypeTrick, Online Instructions, Gimmick(s)
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedNov 14, 2023

Crazy Cards

Dominique Duvivier

(Based on 1 review)
Did you like "Alladin"?... you'll love "Crazy Cards".

The magician shows 4 red-backed cards. These are a Four of a kind (for example, the four Aces).

The cards instantly turn face down together.

Then the cards turn face up one by one.

One of the cards is now blue backed... and all the other cards are also blue backed!

And when you turn them face up... it's now a different Four of a kind (here the four Queens)!

Incredibly, they now have red backs again!

The four cards are placed one by one on the table.

Detailed video instructions

Strong points:
  • A highly visual and colorful trick
  • Maximum effects
  • Bicycle cards

Reviews

Stephan Sloan

Official Reviewer

Jan 02, 2024

Overview

There a millions of card tricks and many of them are good. Of course, we have the classics, so why release anything else? If one was going to market a different trick, the least that can be done to differentiate it from the millions of others, is making it easy to learn, understand and perform. Yet, there are some magic creators that cannot grasp this simple concept. Crazy Cards is a perfect example of how to make your trick so difficult to learn, I wonder why it is released to the magic community.

Effect

You show 4 cards, all the aces for example. They turn face down one by one. They are shown to have one color back and then the backs change and finally the cards change.

Method

The method utilizes 2 gimmicked cards and 4 regular cards. There are some basic counts one must learn to perform this such as his Duvivier Count and Elmsley Count.

Product Quality

The cards are Bicycle playing cards so there are no quality issues there. The issue I have is the inconsistency and speed at which the instruction is given. The first issue I have is that the trick utilizes four regular cards and two double faced cards. All readily available in bulk by the USPPC. So I cannot understand why the layout he shows uses different cards from the cards he uses to perform with and why the cards he uses to perform with are different from the ones provided. It makes no sense. One must now adjust the visual construct of the setup three times because he was too lazy to make everything consistent. Then he speaks in French at triple speed and the English subtitles go just as fast. The sleights are rushed through with no attempt to give the one watching the explanation a close-up of the handling. There is zero attempt to make this a watchable and understandable trick to learn.

Ad Copy Integrity

The ad copy explains the effect accurately but I would skip this one and look at others where the creator actually cares how the purchaser learns the trick.
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