Price$19.95
Media TypeTrick
CategoryGeneral
Date AddedNov 14, 2015
Over This World
Pandrea, Alex
The Blue Crown
(Based on 1 review)
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Over This World is marketed as Alex Pandrea’s solution to Paul Curry’s Out of this World. As an effect it is completely unbelievable and Alex has added some great subtleties that make it deceptive for even those in the know.
If we go over the routine itself it is in three phases. The spectator and/or magician shuffles the cards. The cards are taken out of the deck one at a time and the magician knows the color. The deck can be cut as many times as the spectator sees fit and the magician can name cards from wherever they are pulled from with relative accuracy. In this aspect there is a ton of flexibility.
The second phase allows you to completely separate the reds from the black by quickly up jogging and down jogging the cards. Your head can be turned away and there are no markings on the cards at all.
In the last phase, the cards are shuffled again and 2 spectators or the magician and the spectator each take half of the deck and are able to separate their portions red from black.
That’s what you get a three phase color separation routine. The first two phases are really color reading and not really that similar to Out of This World in my book. The last phase is more of a traditional Out of This World in that the spectators handle the cards.
The methods are solid for each phase, I have tried out each phase together and separately and the reactions that I am getting are really great. I think that it is a really great routine and it is completely worth the money in my book.
That said it is advertized as self working, most of it really isn’t. The first phase takes some concentration to pull off, the second phase uses a sleight and the third phase could just about be called self working but I don’t feel like it could stand on its own. In between each phase there are shuffling sequences that require you to control the way the cards are shuffled. Either way, it’s not quite in the realm of a self working card trick. It is easy for the most part, but not self working. There is an aspect of estimation as well that will put many off.
Is it a good routine, sure but there are some pretty big problems with the ad copy.
If we go over the routine itself it is in three phases. The spectator and/or magician shuffles the cards. The cards are taken out of the deck one at a time and the magician knows the color. The deck can be cut as many times as the spectator sees fit and the magician can name cards from wherever they are pulled from with relative accuracy. In this aspect there is a ton of flexibility.
The second phase allows you to completely separate the reds from the black by quickly up jogging and down jogging the cards. Your head can be turned away and there are no markings on the cards at all.
In the last phase, the cards are shuffled again and 2 spectators or the magician and the spectator each take half of the deck and are able to separate their portions red from black.
That’s what you get a three phase color separation routine. The first two phases are really color reading and not really that similar to Out of This World in my book. The last phase is more of a traditional Out of This World in that the spectators handle the cards.
The methods are solid for each phase, I have tried out each phase together and separately and the reactions that I am getting are really great. I think that it is a really great routine and it is completely worth the money in my book.
That said it is advertized as self working, most of it really isn’t. The first phase takes some concentration to pull off, the second phase uses a sleight and the third phase could just about be called self working but I don’t feel like it could stand on its own. In between each phase there are shuffling sequences that require you to control the way the cards are shuffled. Either way, it’s not quite in the realm of a self working card trick. It is easy for the most part, but not self working. There is an aspect of estimation as well that will put many off.
Is it a good routine, sure but there are some pretty big problems with the ad copy.