New Year's Magic Effects
What effects or routines do you recommend for New Year's Eve? I'd be performing them for family. I was thinking of doing Juan Tamariz's 'The Year of Love.' It's a simple and very entertaining effect for the audience. The patter would revolve around how their love lives will be in 2024.
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@Pablo200:
My personal advice is to look for effects that involve 3 or 4 people. It's a great way to include your family members directly in the effect and make it feel more personal.
Something like an impossible probability effect with 3 cards -- I can't recall the name right now 😅, the one with the 4 piles 10/15/15/9. I think Julio has it explained on his channel (if I can find the link, I'll post it).
One I used to do at family dinners (years ago, I haven't done it in a while) was "The King of the Cut." It was more of a grand finale, helping reinforce that the deck had already been shuffled and shuffled throughout the rest of the performance (that's when I swapped in the pre-arranged deck).
In this effect, you directly involve 3 people, and it's usually very well-liked and impressive.
In general, look for effects that can involve the most spectators, and rotate spectators from one effect to the next (especially if your family dinners have a lot of guests 😅)
Cheers!!!
One routine I really enjoy for that occasion is The Four Seasons from GEC 3 (it's either the first or second one in the book).
I performed "The Year of Love" for my family as the closing act, and they really liked it. I slipped it in after a routine I'd prepared with the Si Stebbins stack. Here's how it went, let me know what you think:
1- The classic "Pick a card, and I'll tell you what it is." (I did it twice, though I wasn't completely satisfied; I think the patter fell a bit flat.)
2-"The Deck Knows," where you take a card no one sees (absolutely no one) and identify it by asking the deck (spelling with the cards) for its color, value, etc. (This one had a bit more impact.)
3-"The Tattletale Deck," where two cards are selected and it ends with a separation of colors, with the chosen cards mixed into the opposite color pile. I leveraged the alternating colors of the Si Stebbins stack for this. (This got an even bigger reaction.)
4-"The Year of Love." Since in the previous effect the deck ended up messed up, with cards face up and face down, I said that to save time organizing it, I'd switch decks for the final effect. (No suspicion at all, and as I said, they liked it too.)
Overall, it went really well.
Cheers,
Is there a tutorial for the first trick? I've seen Mariano Lavida do it in his videos, where the spectator picks a card and he guesses it, and I'm always blown away.
@Pablo200:
I just watched it for the first time. I wasn't familiar with that one. It's really beautiful. I'd definitely include it.
(I wouldn't mind if you showed it to me 😉)
Cheers,
The trick is pretty simple, but it's also tough to explain over chat. I'm sending you a video where it's explained really well. Manu Vera taught it to me two years ago, so I figure the tutorial I'm linking should be good. Any questions, just let me know.
I usually perform the Invisible Deck or an ACAAN.