Thank bro!

Great thinking Patrick! I'll give this a whirl!

Wait.....Did you not watch the video? He tells you how to build the gimmick?

@@zachadelic8110 I did- but posted prior to seeing the reveal to show how smart I am 🙄-not!

@@puksb ahhhh ok haha

If I understand you correctly, you’d need to unglue the card after cutting to make it open. So glue would possibly damage it?

Thanks James. I really appreciate this comment. 🙏

@@LloydBOh, you are most welcome. 😊

Fabrizio... I thought exactly the same and did just that. It works fine and fills in the hole perfectly. I lined it up and glued it to lower card before stitching with the thread. Then just cut through the centre line once trimmed. Works great

​@@Take2Creative1 In the meantime I have tried it and it works perfectly for me too! But I also had to add a second elastic thread to allow a better closing of the little door. Ciao :))

My bad you said you would link it as I pressed send

Thank you mate!

Cheers Gary!

@@LloydB DEAR LLOYD. PLEASE HELP ME.

Thanks dude! Hell yeah! Good luck with the comp!

That’s because you’re looking for it!

Really appreciate the kind words brother! Thank you man :)

Thanks bro!

and...can i use this wrong gimmick for any trick ? lol

You are correct and I am an idiot! 😂

Never mind I watched it again. I get it.

🙂

GREAT QUESTION! And actually, I saw Wayne Fox lecture at the Cardiff Magic Society just last night and he spoke in depth about his very topic. The importance of quick visual moments in your act. I'm paraphrasing but essentially, Wayne's learned after turning professional over 30 years ago at age 23, that you can't just hit them with longer routines non-stop. You need to mix it up to keep people hooked with snappy visual moments sprinkled in amongst your set. It keeps the audience fully engaged and in the palm of your hand the entire time. I've heard other pro's talk about this too. Some have even called it a 'Sonic Boom' moment. Something that just snaps your audience's attention straight back to the room if they're starting to to get zoned out. From my experience; these are the pieces of magic that are like visual sound bites to your crowd. They're the pieces they BEG to see again and tell others about. And I think the reason for this is because they're quick moments that are easy to describe and most importantly, remember. In this instance "He literally threw the coin through the card!". As opposed to them trying to describe an ACAAN or Biddle trick for example. Hope this helps you, Igor. And if you've never added pieces like this to your routine, there's no time like the present to up the ante! Thank you for a great question!

@@LloydB thank you for your answer lol, it is some answer :D Yea, Im not even amateur magician, Im just a fan of magic and do it here and there. So, for me, this kind of trricks hold no value at all. There are even better looking and more deceptive tricks that are also no use at all for me since if I do something for a friend I really cant say no to question for looking at something. Hell, often they wtould just take it immediately without asking at all. There are tricks that are just for social media, camera you can control completely, and perform a trick that has minimal angle to perform it. Than, on the stage a spectator will almost never ever ask to look at your props. So you can give him a card to pick, do a switch and than do it, but if I do that again, my audience would go look momentarily whats that about. I just cant perform ANYTHING where the answer for looking is no, and f you are not clean at the moment of the effect ending. Or reasonably clean.

Evey trick is not suitable for all situations. Choose the trick suitable for your audience. If you want spectator to examine everything, then do self working or sleigt of hand type Card Tricks

But in Lloyd's version of the trick, you *can* show them the card, because they think it's the one they signed at the start.

I have failed you.

Well, Orga, as magicians we hide/misdirect//clean up “the obvious” in almost every trick/routine we perform, do we not? It’s all about deception and presentation, this is imo a perfect little visual gem to throw in midst an act to keep the audience’ attention! Lots of love to you Lloyd - the sheep-sh***ing Calzaghe of magic - for sharing your ideas. You’re such an inspiration, make many of us exploring our own creativity further!