by Benji | Feb 17, 2021 | Effects, Inner Circle
I figured I’d throw caution to the wind with this final ‘Fingertip Fumble.’ As usual, make sure you’ve read the previous effects before you get to this one. Here’s the big difference between the other versions… The previous variations all had one thing in common—we...
by Benji | Feb 10, 2021 | Effects, Inner Circle
Alright. Last week, I shared a brand new ‘Fingertip Fumble’ with you. If you haven’t read that yet, go do that. Once you’re all caught up, we’re ready to move into today’s idea. In this version, we ‘level up’ the effect (in my opinion) by making one simple change...
by Benji | Feb 3, 2021 | Effects, Inner Circle
One of my all-time favorite ideas is a set of effects I call ‘Fingertip Fumbles’… If you own the Skyscraper Method, you’ll have read all about them, but the basic idea is that I took Ed Marlo’s ‘Fingertip Miracle’ and created a whole new bunch of variations and...
by Benji | Jan 27, 2021 | Effects, Inner Circle
Let’s try something totally different this week. It’s a simple enough effect, but very ‘disarming.’ The source of this idea this effect uses is hard to pinpoint. As the tale tells, Vernon discovered it from an old Mexican gambler—but that’s about as far back as we...
by Benji | Jan 20, 2021 | Effects, Inner Circle
Last time we talked about Weighing the Cards, we discussed an interesting way to perform ‘weighing the cards’ after the audience shuffles the cards. Click here to see that one. After we do the shuffle procedure discussed in that routine, we end up with one of our 13...
by Benji | Jan 13, 2021 | Effects, Inner Circle
Here’s a very fun way to use the classic ‘one ahead’ principle that I’ve never seen discussed before… This is another perfect example of Darwin Ortiz’ ideas on the ‘conflict’ problem. To simplify his theory, the bottom line is that we should never create conflict...
