Your Guide To Magic Tricks
Street magic revealed? Yes, indeed the following guidance will help you with your street magic.
Set-up and Reset: There are some tricks that have fairly complicated set-ups that must be completed before a magic trick can be performed. If it is an excellent trick that will totally amaze your spectators, then it might be worth it. Usually lengthy set-ups mean that in order to do the trick again, the reset time will also be lengthy. There is a big problem with tricks like this, regardless how amazing they may seem, is that you can’t carry them around with you very easily. Impromptu tricks are sometimes the best, and complicated set-ups preclude any hope of it being an impromptu trick.
Pay Off or Effect: If a magic trick has a complicated or lengthy set-up and only produces a “that’s an interesting trick” comment, then it has a low payoff and is simply not worth the effort. Similarly there are a lot of great card tricks that have long story lines or extended card handling routines that have low payoffs and low “wow” factors that make them not worth the effort to get to the punch line such as “Now the four jacks came back together again.”
