Price$29.95
Media TypeTrick
CategoryGeneral, Close Up
Date AddedJul 02, 2015
HOLE 2.0
Chatelain, Mickael
Gi'Mick Magic
(Based on 1 review)
Take out your deck and spread the cards between your hands.
Right in the middle of the deck you discover two cards that are a bit different. First, their backs are of a different color than the rest of the deck and they also have a quarter-sized hole in the middle.
Take out the two cards and allow them to be thoroughly examined. Your spectators will see that, apart from the holes, the cards are absolutely ordinary.
Next, take the top card of the deck and spread out the two examined cards.
With no false moves or manipulation, the card (the six of clubs) is slid between the two cards with holes. Everything happens under the nose of the spectators, inches away. Everything is clean, nothing suspicious to ruin the illusion.
Show that the six of clubs remains mostly visible from front and back.
Tell you spectators not to blink and to concentrate on the six of clubs.
Hold the three cards firmly between the thumb and forefinger of each hand.
Concentrate!
Although absolutely impossible, the six of clubs passes through the lower card and lands on the table. Matter through matter in full view and under the very eyes of your spectators!
Immediately hand out all three cards to be examined at the leisure of your spectators.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, can be found.
The three cards are perfectly normal! How is this possible?
This description is 100% faithful to each step of the trick.
Please note the following important points: The gimmick, and a gimmick there is, is truly diabolical! The cards are examined before and after the trick. Believe me, no one will find the method used. Easy to do, the "secret" takes care of everything! The card is genuinely sandwiched - no optical illusion, however it escapes as if by magic! DVD and gimmick included.
Reviews
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PROS
A very visually stunning effect!
He teaches a few different variations. One on the table and a couple versions in the spectators hands.
The methods are very good, and he teaches three different ways to accomplish the magic move. He also teaches a move at the end to hand out all three cards for examination and the method is well thought out and very good, with attention to subtle detail.
The gimmicks are pretty well made. See my comment in the “CONS” section regarding one of the gimmicks. Also, I like that you could make your own replacement gimmicks when they wear out. He doesn’t teach how to do so, but once you learn the method, if you are at all handy, you can likely figure out a way to make replacements.
The effect is pretty true to the ad copy. However, there is one slight clarification…
CONS
The ad copy says you immediately hand out all three cards for inspection. One of the cards is a gimmicked card that can’t “immediately” be handed out for inspection. Mickael covers a method where you hand out the two hole cards and then you hand out the card that passed through the holes.
When I performed the effect, one of my spectators saw something they shouldn’t have. I think the gimmicks could have been modified to minimize this possible problem. I was able to modify my gimmicks to make them more effective.
One more point of consideration: If you do the effect as taught on the DVD, your deck has some set-up to begin with, meaning you will likely need to start with this effect, and it doesn’t end clean, meaning it is a bit more difficult to do a follow up card effect. I think a much cleaner, similar effect, is Solo by Mark Mason. Solo is not quite the same effect, but rather a card that disappears from between two cards with holes and reappears in the card box. In solo, you can’t hand out the hole cards for examination, but your deck starts and ends cleaner.
VERDICT
A very nice effect where a card passes through two cards with holes in the middle. However, you should know that it starts and ends with a dirty deck.
A very visually stunning effect!
He teaches a few different variations. One on the table and a couple versions in the spectators hands.
The methods are very good, and he teaches three different ways to accomplish the magic move. He also teaches a move at the end to hand out all three cards for examination and the method is well thought out and very good, with attention to subtle detail.
The gimmicks are pretty well made. See my comment in the “CONS” section regarding one of the gimmicks. Also, I like that you could make your own replacement gimmicks when they wear out. He doesn’t teach how to do so, but once you learn the method, if you are at all handy, you can likely figure out a way to make replacements.
The effect is pretty true to the ad copy. However, there is one slight clarification…
CONS
The ad copy says you immediately hand out all three cards for inspection. One of the cards is a gimmicked card that can’t “immediately” be handed out for inspection. Mickael covers a method where you hand out the two hole cards and then you hand out the card that passed through the holes.
When I performed the effect, one of my spectators saw something they shouldn’t have. I think the gimmicks could have been modified to minimize this possible problem. I was able to modify my gimmicks to make them more effective.
One more point of consideration: If you do the effect as taught on the DVD, your deck has some set-up to begin with, meaning you will likely need to start with this effect, and it doesn’t end clean, meaning it is a bit more difficult to do a follow up card effect. I think a much cleaner, similar effect, is Solo by Mark Mason. Solo is not quite the same effect, but rather a card that disappears from between two cards with holes and reappears in the card box. In solo, you can’t hand out the hole cards for examination, but your deck starts and ends cleaner.
VERDICT
A very nice effect where a card passes through two cards with holes in the middle. However, you should know that it starts and ends with a dirty deck.