What is your favorite trick by Harry Lorayne?
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What is your favorite trick by Harry Lorayne?
What is your favorite trick by Harry Lorayne?
Mine is Foursome from Deck-Sterity.
What is yours?
Mine is Foursome from Deck-Sterity.
What is yours?
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If narrowing it down to 1, I would have to say Halo Aces. But there are oh so many I could name.
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Like I'm gonna tell... :grin:
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Philippe Nol wrote:What is your favorite trick by Harry Lorayne?
Mine is Foursome from Deck-Sterity.
What is yours?
That's a tough one - especially for someone from NYC to answer. Those of us who visited Tannen's on Saturdays and then the Governor->Dosanko's->Reuben's afterwords for a Saturday afternoon of magic got to see hundreds of items as he was working on them or writing them up... and then there was all the material he'd bring in from contributors to his magazine Apocalypse which he'd have learned and sometimes ask about the provenance of an item.
So how about a favorite hundred or so just to be realistic? :)
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The Indicator (The original Deck-Sterity version as I like the "thinking" required).
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I agree - i use the original Indicator a lot.
"Really" is also fine - and without the thinking!
"Really" is also fine - and without the thinking!
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Oh, wait a minute, el mystico - what about Out of this Universe, with that presentation of yours?
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Thanks, I'd forgotten that. Yes, Universe is my most commonly performed Harry effect.
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HaLo Aces Again (I think that's the name).
A perfect, direct, ace cutting. The only trick I do that repeats the same secret move more than once, there's nothing to see and it looks exactly like what you claim to do.
A perfect, direct, ace cutting. The only trick I do that repeats the same secret move more than once, there's nothing to see and it looks exactly like what you claim to do.
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Yes, it's either HaLo Aces or HaLo Again (both are killers). Of course most all items I've written up over the years were favorites at one time or another. Interesting. Just recently I've been doing my Sloppy Card Trick - hadn't performed it for a long while - and it blows people away - including magicians. HL
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Harry, is that the one using spittle?
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For me it's, The Best Gosh Darn Impromptu Linking Card Effect You'll Ever See!. From his book Quantum Leaps, and it's, to coin a phrase, worth the price of the book and more!
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Good thinking, Mallakite. I sometimes "forget" my own items! HL
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Stop! from CUCM.
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Difficult for me to name my own things, but - do not overlook Guess Quotient in BEST OF FRIENDS, 3. You'll "kill" with it. HL
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I think that ONE of my favorites is MATED - page 175 of "Close Up Card Magic".
(My friend Peter Marshall suggested that when the face up cards are placed on the table they are put in an "11 o'clock - 5 o'clock" position and when the cards are found they are put, one to the right of the 11 o'clock and the other to the left of the 5 o'clock. That way the match will either be horizontal or vertical and it won't matter which card is inserted first.)
(My friend Peter Marshall suggested that when the face up cards are placed on the table they are put in an "11 o'clock - 5 o'clock" position and when the cards are found they are put, one to the right of the 11 o'clock and the other to the left of the 5 o'clock. That way the match will either be horizontal or vertical and it won't matter which card is inserted first.)
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Jerry: In a book right after CUCM, I taught exactly that for Mated, or a different "matching" effect. I teach it on page 130 of THE CLASSIC COLLECTION. Best - HARRY L.
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My favorite is from an old book of his..it sold quite well.. um it's the one on how to develop a super.. you can do it with names and numbers and lists...oh, shoot, I forget!
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I regularly perform modified versions of "Lorayne's Poker Deal # 2" and "Estimation Aces" from volume 4 of the "Best Ever Teacher" VHS series.
These both get VERY strong reactions for me.
These both get VERY strong reactions for me.
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I like "Foursome" from CUCM and "Tilt Sandwich" from BOF Volume 1.
BTW, there are way too many to list as favs...
DomC.
BTW, there are way too many to list as favs...
DomC.
Minds are like parachutes...they work best when opened.
Exitus acta probat.
Exitus acta probat.
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Boy! You guys are reminding me of some routines I've "forgotten"! HARRY LORAYNE.
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Any estimation on the release of Classic Collection Volume 2 Mr Lorayne? Thanks.
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Just finished posing for all the (469) photos for THE CLASSIC COLLECTION, Vol. 2. I'm hoping for release sometime in the fall, or early winter. If you want to be notified be sure to send me your email address - then you'll receive a copy of the full-page ad, when and if. Send to me at: harrylorayne@earthlink.net. Best - HARRY LORAYNE.
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Just a question out of curiosity Mr Lorayne, there were a few omissions in Classic Collection Volume 1, although we got new tricks as well, what are your reasons for leaving out these particular tricks and will there be omissions and new tricks in Classic Collection Volume 2? Thanks.
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I took a poll of many magician friends who'd read and used the original books for decades. Since I was pressed for space, the poll was - which effects/routines did you NEVER use? Well, none were NEVER used, but just a couple were rarely used - so I didn't include them. Yes, there will be one or two omitted from Volume 2; same space problem, same reasoning. Or, one or two that just don't work now. For example, there's a wonderful chewing gum routine in the original of AFTERTHOUGHTS, but - sticks of gum are packaged a bit differently now, so it just doesn't "scan" anymore. Yes, there will be many new ideas in the text itself, and in my "Afterthoughts." HL
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That chewing gum trick was Tim Wenk's as I remember--and it was very good. Harry: no sticks of gum come in foil wrappers any more?
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I'm sorry (Mr. Lorayne), I inadvertently misnamed the first effect...it should read "Fourtitude" instead of "Foursome". Thank you.DomC wrote:I like "Foursome" from CUCM and "Tilt Sandwich" from BOF Volume 1.
BTW, there are way too many to list as favs...
DomC.
DomC.
Minds are like parachutes...they work best when opened.
Exitus acta probat.
Exitus acta probat.
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Yes, Richard, it is Tim Wenk's routine with a stick of gum. I checked two or three major brands, and they are packaged differently now. For example, each stick in the package is wrapped in foil but not in the outside paper wrapping of the "good old days." Best - HARRY L.
(Unfortunately, things like this do change. Example: In my book, THE MAGIC BOOK, I teach the straw-through-potato effect. It was one of those things [like Knife Through Coat] where you REALLY do what you say you're doing. And it worked with the drinking straws of that time - PAPER. I used to perform the silly thing often. But now drinking straws are plastic, and - IT NO LONGER WORKS.)
(Unfortunately, things like this do change. Example: In my book, THE MAGIC BOOK, I teach the straw-through-potato effect. It was one of those things [like Knife Through Coat] where you REALLY do what you say you're doing. And it worked with the drinking straws of that time - PAPER. I used to perform the silly thing often. But now drinking straws are plastic, and - IT NO LONGER WORKS.)
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Favorite Lorayne trick?
That's easy. Stabbed in the Pack, in DeckSterity, I believe. I have done it hundreds of times.
I developed a gaffed version. I discarded it because the original handling just works!
That's easy. Stabbed in the Pack, in DeckSterity, I believe. I have done it hundreds of times.
I developed a gaffed version. I discarded it because the original handling just works!
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I've been doing Stabbed in the Pack for 25 years or more, but had long forgotten where I learned it. I love that trick, thanks a lot!
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I thought twice before re-writing/including Stabbed In The Pack for LORAYNE, THE CLASSIC COLLECTION, Vol. 1 (in the Deck-Sterity section). That'w because it isn't an easy thing to do correctly. I see now that many use it - they just keep it to themselves. I'm glad I included it - It's a "killer." hl
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Earthly Powers from Apocalypse. I do this every night when I'm behind the bar. One of my favorite tricks to do, they NEVER see the kicker coming.
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Hi Pepka,
Earthly Powers (Richard Vollmer) is great. Check out my "Powerful" from Harry's Best of Friends III. It's a topsy-turvy version of Earthly Powers.
Best, Paul Gordon
Earthly Powers (Richard Vollmer) is great. Check out my "Powerful" from Harry's Best of Friends III. It's a topsy-turvy version of Earthly Powers.
Best, Paul Gordon
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Will do Paul, thanks!
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And, if your viewers are poker players, check out Unearthly Powers - it's a royal-flush ending. hl
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The other day, a magic fan of mine wanted to show me how well he did my Stabbed In The Pack. What he did was the Johnny Benzais estimation version. Johnny had asked my permission to put it in his book (all those years ago). He thought I was using estimation. I WAS, AND AM, NOT. My original version is NOT an estimation effect - the card you toss into the tabled deck is shown to be RIGHT NEXT to the selected or thought-of card. HARRY LORAYNE.