Our June meeting was “Packet Trick Night.” Some of the wizards showed us interesting packet tricks and some wowed us with other magical effects.
Magic that happens in the hands of everyone in the audience was performed by two of our members. John Cameron had us all select random times on a clock and after following his instructions we all ended up on one o’clock. He then taught us Jim Steinmeyer’s One O’clock Mystery. J.R. Russell performed Robert Giobbi’s Einstein trick where we all magically discovered the exact card we had been thinking of.
Michael Jacobs shared Aldo Columbini‘s Jumbo Coincidence with a jumbo deck that had been sliced in half. Miraculously he not only had the selected card matched in both halves but then had all of the cards match after numerous shuffles. Ben Eskenazi demonstrated a Michael Ammar effect where the selected card had a different colored back than the rest of the packet. Roger Sylwester showed us some serious sleight of hand with a slick three card monte routine.
Hugh Castell had a prediction sealed in an envelope in a wallet that matched a card that a spectator had him stop on. Mark Paulson continued to amaze us with his evolving mentalism repertoire by performing Richard Osterland’s Hands Off. We welcomed a new magus, Gary Parrish, who shared some of his background and his desire to find effects that could be performed without the use of the magician’s hands. We’ll all be thinking about that challenge.
Bill Murray amazed and amused us with a Juan Tamariz effect where we used negative vibrations to find a card leading to a positive conclusion. Chuck Kleiner shared his version of an old Emerson & West packet routine called Color Monte.
We closed out the meeting with a matrix routine from Mike Battistoni using only two cards and four silver dollars. We felt that if he could do it with two cards what about just one card. Instead, he performed the routine with no cards blowing our minds. The cries of “Do it again, do it again,” made our club sound like a bunch of kids at a magic show. Mike shared that he had help from Dean Dill in developing the effect.
Maybe it’s me, but the magic at the Emerald City Wizards’ meeting seems to be getting better and better every month. Can’t wait for next month’s meeting.