Street Sense

THE BLURB:
The performer gives a spectator his/her business card folded
up and asks them to place it in their pocket for later. Then
a game of "which coin in the hand" is played 5 times in a
row and a score is kept of the spectator's hits and misses.
The performer asks the spectator to remove the business card
that’s been in their pocket all along. They open it without
the performer ever touching it and it matches their score!

Bonus routines and notes:

NON Cents - Impromptu Street Effect - The magician/mentalist
reaches into his/her pocket and pulls out a closed fist
announcing it contains 3 coins and asks a spectator to play
a little game of imagination. The spectator is asked to name
a coin, and ANY coin they name the magician will pull out of
his hand. After the coin is named and removed, the magician
announces the game wasn’t fair, opening his hand showing it
completely empty!

    * No shells
    * No pulls
    * No magnets
    * Perform in a t-shirt
    * Nothing to add, steal away
    * Only ONE coin shown
    * Different outcome every time!

Chair Cents - a routine idea for stage (this idea is worth 5
times the price for a working performer)! You will love what
Andrew Gerard has done with this gimmick.

MY COMMENTS:
This is a terrific idea, which is very clever and worth knowing. It uses a gimmick that most are probably aware of and may already have in your magic drawers. It's inexpensive and included in the package. Indeed, it is very easy to do, there are no sleights, and you do only show one coin when you open your hand. I should also note that Ted Karmilovich has worked with this idea and some years ago shared some very notable unpublished material with a few mentalists. His presentational approach is entirely different than Andrew Gerard's.

The package includes six single-sided 8.5" by 11" pages, which are stapled, folded and polybagged. There are two other routines included in the manuscript. The first is called Non Cents. Essentially this is Docc Hilford's Nightmare Coins that uses a presentation similar to Tomoyuki Takahashi's Fading Coin that Eugene Burger explains on his Experiencing Magical Presentation DVD. The other effect is entitled Chair Cents and is very similar to Rick Maue's FATE. Both routines are solid, but seem to be afterthoughts and obvious derivations of the aforementioned works. In any case, the main routine is certainly a delight to perform. With the gimmick in your pocket, it's always ready to go.