Magic Taizen DS: The amazing TV ads

We haven’t looked at magic the same way since we saw “The Prestige.” The squashed canary really made us lose our appetite for those vanishing animal tricks! From now on we’ll stick to card tricks.

Magic card tricks are, as the name implies, not real magic but tricks. They’re easy to learn and yet cute enough to amaze your friends. We got one right here and it’s called the Card in Wallet Prediction. In this trick, you ask someone to pick a card from the pack. Then, you take a card out of your wallet, which happens to match the card chosen earlier. Amazing? This is the trick behind the magic:

1. You need two of the same card (they don’t need to be from the same type of deck), eg. King of Diamonds.
2. Take one of the kings and put it in a wallet.
3. Put either double stick tape or a loop of tape on the bottom of the wallet, and put the wallet in your pocket.
4. Take the other king and put it on top of the deck you want to use.
5. Take out your wallet and tell the audience there is a prediction of some sort inside the wallet (make sure the spectator does not see the tape).
6. Choose a volunteer to pick a card and not to look at it.
7. Take the card and put it on top of the deck.
8. Now, start the blah-blah about telepathy & magic to distract the audience and casually put the wallet over the deck of cards.
9. The chosen card will stick to the tape on the wallet. Remove this so the King of Diamonds card will be the one on top of the deck. Needless to say you need to this without being detected.
10. Take King of Diamonds on the table and flip it over.
11. Slowly open the wallet and reveal the card inside that matches the picked card.

Now if you’ve got a set of card and a Nintendo DS, you can add a new twist on the old magic card tricks. By the way, you also need Magic Taizen (or Magic Daizen) – a magician simulation for the DS. We don’t know exactly how this thing works. But from the reaction of the audience featured in the Nintendo’s Magic Taizen TV ads, looks like the game’s card tricks aren’t too shabby.

As soon as an English version of Magic Taizen (set for a November 16 release in Japan) appears we’d like to give this a try. At least we know no canaries will be squashed here.

Via GameBrink

We haven’t looked at magic the same way since we saw “The Prestige.” The squashed canary really made us lose our appetite for those vanishing animal tricks! From now on we’ll stick to card tricks.

Magic card tricks are, as the name implies, not real magic but tricks. They’re easy to learn and yet cute enough to amaze your friends. We got one right here and it’s called the Card in Wallet Prediction. In this trick, you ask someone to pick a card from the pack. Then, you take a card out of your wallet, which happens to match the card chosen earlier. Amazing? This is the trick behind the magic:

1. You need two of the same card (they don’t need to be from the same type of deck), eg. King of Diamonds.
2. Take one of the kings and put it in a wallet.
3. Put either double stick tape or a loop of tape on the bottom of the wallet, and put the wallet in your pocket.
4. Take the other king and put it on top of the deck you want to use.
5. Take out your wallet and tell the audience there is a prediction of some sort inside the wallet (make sure the spectator does not see the tape).
6. Choose a volunteer to pick a card and not to look at it.
7. Take the card and put it on top of the deck.
8. Now, start the blah-blah about telepathy & magic to distract the audience and casually put the wallet over the deck of cards.
9. The chosen card will stick to the tape on the wallet. Remove this so the King of Diamonds card will be the one on top of the deck. Needless to say you need to this without being detected.
10. Take King of Diamonds on the table and flip it over.
11. Slowly open the wallet and reveal the card inside that matches the picked card.

Now if you’ve got a set of card and a Nintendo DS, you can add a new twist on the old magic card tricks. By the way, you also need Magic Taizen (or Magic Daizen) – a magician simulation for the DS. We don’t know exactly how this thing works. But from the reaction of the audience featured in the Nintendo’s Magic Taizen TV ads, looks like the game’s card tricks aren’t too shabby.

As soon as an English version of Magic Taizen (set for a November 16 release in Japan) appears we’d like to give this a try. At least we know no canaries will be squashed here.

Via GameBrink