Hi Everyone!
I am the dude that made the "world's greatest card trick" tutorial last summer. I have been gone for awhile, but I am back for good now with some more great tutorials. This first one is probably my most favorite trick in the entire world! It looks like real magic, can be performed on the spur of the moment, and will leave them talking about you for a long time.
This tutorial teaches you how to perform the World's Awesomest Card Trick. Check it out, it is only 2 minutes long:
I am the dude that made the "world's greatest card trick" tutorial last summer. I have been gone for awhile, but I am back for good now with some more great tutorials. This first one is probably my most favorite trick in the entire world! It looks like real magic, can be performed on the spur of the moment, and will leave them talking about you for a long time.
This tutorial teaches you how to perform the World's Awesomest Card Trick. Check it out, it is only 2 minutes long:
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Signing UpStep 1: Secret setup arrangement
This is a semi-impromptu trick. The only thing required is for you to get a few cards set up on the top of the deck.
The cards that should be on the top of the deck are these:
Top card: Four of spades
Second card down: three of spades
third card from top: two of spades
After that secret setup, there is one card sleight you must learn: The Elmsley count.
The cards that should be on the top of the deck are these:
Top card: Four of spades
Second card down: three of spades
third card from top: two of spades
After that secret setup, there is one card sleight you must learn: The Elmsley count.
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(Grammar Nazi's note- The title should be 'How to Perform the World's Most Awesome Card Trick)
You sir, should not teach others material with out their permission.
This effect is called Maxi Twist by Roger Smith, one of the greatest card technicians and sharpest minds to ever grace us with his talents.
Before we lost him on July 16th 2008.
Moreover he was a good friend and Magical Mentor to me.
Here is a Video of him performing Maxi Twist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1BImRhMBRA
But seriously, respect the work of others. if you are going to expose someone else's work, at least do the research and find out who created it and give them credit.
-Nathan Himes
U.S. patent law says you can't patent a recipe. That's why the recipe for Coca Cola and the Colonel's eleven herbs and spices must be kept very secret... they aren't afforded protection under the current U.S. patent law.
Likewise, card tricks are unpatentable. They are a method, not a mechanical invention. Their patter and their author's explanations may be considered protected under current copyright law.
This, however, was published and in the public realm as a method. I did not give it away anymore than if I would have published an instructable on how to tie shoes...even if the brilliant Roger Smith had taught me how to tie my shoes.
Roger published this method for profit, and hopefully he enjoyed a financial gain for his loss of keeping his material under control.
I was not aware this was "Maxi Twist" by Roger Smith. A friend taught me. Perhaps my same friend sold the trick to Roger Smith. I doubt it. But the point is the method is in the public realm of knowledge.
Whatever.
coolness factor = 7/5 :)