Your trick seems to have gone horribly wrong, which will not go unnoticed by your spectators. Ask your spectators to pay close attention... Take the card (the 3 of Diamonds) at the tips of your fingers. Explain that if you add up the two chosen cards, your prediction is now correct,...
We are magicians through and through. The FOB caused serious damage to us.We’re no Penn & Teller although we refer to our self in the third-person. But we love to be fooled and fooled horribly. The kind of fooled where we can’t see straight from the headache that comes on almost ...
He tells us what it is like to die during an escape]. Dean Gunnarson was kind enough to describe what it feels like to die in the course of an escape that went horribly wrong. As loyal readers of Inside Magic know, we have a special fondness and respect for escape artists. It could ...
I find myself attracted to the same themes, character types, narrative tricks, and such, making it far too easy to pour the same old contents into what should be a new story. Good writers either find many important things to say,
While this makes for a horribly boring section header, we do have to define the scope of cheating in what’s ultimately the very technical issue of the Infraction Procedure Guide, or IPG, the document that judges use to define and penalize errors in tournament play. I’ll be referring only...
Unlocking this deck, it’s easy to feel disappointed. There are no more Cutpurses, no Agony Warp, no Helms of the Ghastlord, because all of those things were way too OP in DotP13, weren’t they. That is not to say that the Dimir have lost all their tricks, of course. Most impor...
horribly unsanitary search for cigarettes not fully consumed by some unknown passerby. Their litter, their regretful habits of smoking and littering actually fostered Thomas some relief from the anxiety. Symbiosis by any other name, no? He breathed deeply on his newfound cigarette. ...
Magician Jeff Martin, of Salem, Ore., dazzled a group of teenagers with a three-card monte display and other sleight-of-hand tricks. "Here, let me slow it down and show you again," said Martin, as onlookers stared slack-jawed in disbelief. "And that's why you never want to bet on...