Packet Tricks

While I try to get my hands around sleights there are always packet tricks like these.

I am gettin some sleights correct, as such, but not fluent enough to show off. It really is about showing off but entertainingly. Never arrogant or condescending. Penn Gillette says that one should never assume you are smarter than the audience. Ever. That comes across as condescending. Condescension is never entertaining.

Without doubt colour changing kings to aces gets a better reaction than any other trick I can do. There is a genuine look of “what? How!?” from everyone I’ve shown it to. I love that moment.

There are also many self working tricks that require little sleight but some practise. I’ve heard some say that self working tricks aren’t magic. Such nonsense. Self working tricks are every bit as impressive as sleights. It’s in how they are done.