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FFFF regular International Magic Convention second place winner Patrick Przysiekchi hopefully was going to pull up the lecture standard, starting with a flaming intro to a six card repeat, he at least woke up the audience. He talked about various ways to introduce business cards or normal cards with a flaming start (fires always a good hit with me, second to big pyrotechnics!).

He did a fairly nice effect based around football, a variation I think (dont quote me on it) based on Jim Steinmeyers Bermuda Triangle from his book Impossipuzzles (or as Richard Morrell mentioned Paul Harris’ Art of Astonishment) The basic effect is that four people have 10 footballs on a ‘pitch’ on the table. A fifth spectator adds a ball at a time, the balls on the pitch are moved around, and each of the four spectators still end up with 10 balls each. The routine continues until the fifth spectator is left with, guess, 10 balls, meaning all five spectators have 10 balls.. a very puzzling effect, but again, seemed to miss something.

The next effect involved a chose card reappearing back in the deck reversed as a small card. In a quick add on effect the chosen black 8 card turned into a billiard eight ball, and then a red 3 balls.

Patrick then ran into a multiple location routine, 6 cards were chosen and appeared at various different locations, in the deck, pocket, and wallet, the routine was based around some principals of marking and locating cards, but these really weren’t only well explained, again leaving us a little bemused and confused.

The classic gypsy thread was revolutionary re-invented with… Dental Floss.. with newspaper clippings of reports of people escaping from prison using dental floss as a reason for the effect.. slightly odd but…

The actual effect was no different to a classic Gypsy Thread routine, and to be honest I missed the point of why we needed to be shown this. Following on there was a fairly nice ring on rope under hank , that seemed to use again an older principle, but was fairly convincing. A water in newspaper vanish (using the very standard method), reappearance of the water, into a cup and a final re-vanish of the water was the penultimate effect, followed by a three ring linking ring routine set to Christmas music and poetry.

Again, potentially a good lecture.. but wasn’t as great as I’d hoped.

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