The Genii Forum

RIP Mr. Giorgio.

The old and the new.

Brian

See some Juice work here...watch for it to "pop-out".

Brian

"Vlad" is among the Internet's most reliably tiresome blowhards, always quick to make an insipid observation about the subjectivity of opinion or to advertise his soft-toned sensitivity. He sounds like a middling student halfway through a master's degree in dumbed-down philosophy at a thi...

I have been reading a thread on another forum (which, BTW, I am banned from) that has mention of the Benzais Cop. After reviewing Marlo's variant of the sleight in Advanced Fingertip Control , I see that Marlo said that in his first meeting with Persi Diaconis, Diaconis claimed that the sleight was ...

Rising card questions


Brian

FYI...Mr. Erdnase is the VIP this week in a certain green site. He is available for questions until the 31st.

Brian

Philippe Billot wrote:[snip]

Jonathan, why do you give the game ?
Now, everybody knows Marlo was a temporal traveler.

Ah, but now we are in the realm of the temporal paradox!


Brian

Note that my reference was a reply to Pete McCabe's post. Not a reply to the OP!

Pete McCabe wrote:Try a thick card for the dribble force. Very natural, dead easy, and the spectator can overhand shuffle the deck without being wise.

See Steve Bedwell's Thick Schtick booklet, page 17 - The TC Dribble Force.

2 cents on BrianB2s comments. Your feedback is perfect for my variation on the Bluff Pass. What I am doing is controlling a selection to the top with deck in same sequence order. Unlike the Bluff Pass, the selection has to be removed to be bluffed at least 2nd from the top. With my control, there i...

Well, I will revise my comment. When done expertly, and I have seen Frank Thompson do his bluff pass, granted many years ago in my youth, I will state that any expertly done bluff pass is far superior to this technique. Howie Schwarzman also has an expert bluff pass technique, complete with sound ef...

And, Richard, when done expertly, the same illusion is accomplished with the Marlo-Thompson pass.

Looks more like an inferior variation of the Marlo-Thompson Bluff Pass to me.

Who is Erdnaise?

Did you mean Erdnase?

And that email address would be?

I have an original Johnson Products wallet with this feature.

Message me for more info.

I believe there were two versions of the Johnson Himber.

Are you looking for the first version that had the flap?


Brian