Vintage Ricky Jay

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Vintage Ricky Jay

Postby mrgoat » December 5th, 2014, 2:42 pm

posted on the green place, where I've been having fun the last couple of days :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6u_FtK-meQ

What's the plate effect at the end? Not seen that before...

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Re: Vintage Ricky Jay

Postby Chas Nigh » December 5th, 2014, 7:44 pm

Probably a book written in the 18th century. Thanks for the link.

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Postby Bill Mullins » December 5th, 2014, 9:48 pm

mrgoat wrote:What's the plate effect at the end? Not seen that before...

Looks like a card stab with a plate instead of a sword.

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Re: Vintage Ricky Jay

Postby Bill Mullins » December 5th, 2014, 9:54 pm

mrgoat wrote:What's the plate effect at the end? Not seen that before...

Looks like a card stab with a plate instead of a sword.

Chad long does it with a dart gun.

It might be interesting to work up a method with:

a mousetrap
flypaper
one of those spike things that you used to put receipts on in old-timey offices
A 3-ring binder full of pages of baseball cards, except one of them is your selected card
a photo album
a tin of Altoids or Sucrets (mercury folded?)

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Re: Vintage Ricky Jay

Postby GlennWest » December 6th, 2014, 6:25 pm

Here's a version of the plate trick with a gimmick:

http://books.google.com/books?id=fxbRAg ... te&f=false

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Re: Vintage Ricky Jay

Postby erdnasephile » December 6th, 2014, 8:39 pm

Bill Mullins wrote:
mrgoat wrote:What's the plate effect at the end? Not seen that before...


It might be interesting to work up a method with:

a mousetrap


I think Rich Marotta sells a card sword routine using a rat trap.
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Re: Vintage Ricky Jay

Postby erdnasephile » December 6th, 2014, 8:41 pm

The one thing I didn't care for with the routine was the initial control (out of CUCM if memory serves). As is pointed out in that text, the misdirection is crucial to the control's deceptiveness--which makes it tough in this situation since a camera cannot be misdirected.

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Re: Vintage Ricky Jay

Postby Bill Mullins » December 6th, 2014, 9:02 pm

The card that was boomeranged at 8:10 was the selection, was it not?

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Re: Vintage Ricky Jay

Postby Richard Kaufman » December 6th, 2014, 10:24 pm

Yes, it's Harry Lorayne's Spread Control. Ricky doesn't use misdirection for this even when he did it live. However, laymen do not recognize that because the cards are lying on top of the spread that they go to the top. They just assume that the chosen cards get pushed among all the others as you scoop everything up.
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