Dan Kennedy started off the magic with a nice coin’s across routine where three quarters start on each side of the mat, and one by one three travel from one side to join the others. The final transposition happens in the spectator’s hands. He followed up later in the evening with a performance of “Beyond Probability”, a card prediction effect using a random number rolled on a dice to determine a matching card. Hugh Castell performed “El Cheapo Magic Show” with rubber band and card box. Hugh did some nice rubber band tricks with themes based on large scale illusions, including a broken / restored band, linking bands, and a cute “rabbit” pulled off the band. He finished with a very strong effect where a labeled rubber band jumped from the outside of a card case to the inside around a deck of cards.
Larry Dimmitt performed an original routine called “Fire-Rune” where a blank rune was wrapped in paper. The spectator eliminated various runes on a piece of parchment at which point the paper was lighted and the selected ruin image was burned into the previously blank rune.
Mark Paulson, sans devil horns, started with Max Maven’s “Wagers of Sin” where a spectator unknowingly signs a contract with the devil as a card is revealed. Mark followed up with a nice divining rod routine that would be great for walk around where a paper clip is used to determine what envelope held a silver coin. Mark continued the devil theme with a card revelation that at first showed the chosen card to have a picture of the devil on the back of it, only to then show it normal after he had used the power of the dark one to reveal the choice.