Michael Close says "Red See Passover is one of the five strongest card tricks you can do, for anyone." I agree with him one hundred percent. Here's the effect description from the advertisment.Trust me, it looks exactly as described. There are no palms, awkward counts, funny adjustments, or forces used during the entire routine. It simply could not be more direct. The routine is completely laid out in the 11 page manual explaining the trick. Simon not only gives you an explanation of the "work" involved, he also provides the script he uses when presenting the effect."Two spectators, Ginny and Dave, are asked to help with an experiment involving two decks of cards, one red-backed and one blue. Both decks are shuffled, and each spectator takes one. The spectators themselves each deal 12 cards face down from their respective decks. The rest of the cards are placed aside. No extra or additional cards are used.
Ginny concentrates on her mental selection. She then removes her hand from the red pile and she counts her cards face down and there are now only 11! Dave likewise counts the cards in his blue pile. He finds that there are now 13 and one of them has a red back!
The 11 red cards are then turned face up and all are fanned in front of Ginny. She is asked whether her mental selection is still there, and she finds it has vanished. Finally, the red card in the middle of the blue packet is removed and shown to be Ginny's mental selection!"
While this routine is not self-working, there is no difficult sleight-of-hand involved. The only thing difficult about the trick is that it may seem, at first, a little complicated with many things to remember. However, a few trial runs through the routine with cards in hand will convince you of how simple it really is. The most important thing is to move through the motions naturally. The routine will suffer if your actions appear to be studied.
For those afraid of using gaffed cards, I should mention that Simon describes a method of cleaning up that allows you to get rid of the gaffs when you put the red deck away leaving you with a complete blue deck ready for the next routine.
For $20 you get 12 custom Bicylce cards printed by the U.S. Playing Card Company, an 11 page manuscript detailing the workings of the routine, a complete professional script, and an impossible routine that will serve you well for a lifetime. You cannot ask for more from a product. The ads say this is the Ultimate Thought-of Card Across. While I am not usually one to declare any routine as the "ultimate," in this case, I am inclined to agree. Highly recommended.
---Available from www.llpub.com.
