1 review for Matrix Poker by Jim Steinmeyer, Alan Wakeling
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Matrix Poker by Jim Steinmeyer, Alan Wakeling
(c. 2003) (Submit Review) (Submit Update)Effect: Matrix Poker is a strange game.
The rules are very simple. So simple, that they’re printed on a coin purse, which the magician displays. Along with the purse, the magician lays out 16 cards on the table. Each card has a monetary value printed on it.
A spectator – completely freely, without any undue influence from the magician – selects four of the number cards. The values on the cards are added, to arrive at a value. Surprisingly, despite the completely free selection, the magician has predicted the total exactly! The very same amount the spectator selected is found inside the coin purse.
But, there’s more. When the number cards are flipped over, four playing cards are on the reverse. The magician predicted these cards, too! Their values were permanently printed on the coin purse all along!
The trick requires no sleight of hand. It works every time, all the time.
Matrix Poker comes complete with specially printed cards (from the US Playing Card Company), custom-manufactured coin purse, illustrated, detailed instructions and specially printed bills.
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Approx. Price: $22.00 (2004) ***
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Andy Martin –
Clever effect, Good Value, and Easy to do.
This is a clever little self working effect. The price is right and you get a lot for your money: specially printed cards, purse, stage money, and routine.
However, I think it would be better without the specially printed cards – it would be much better if you pulled out a deck of cards and just wrote on the back of them the numbers – or affixed them with labels. I think that way it would seem even more amazing. In fact if you pulled out a deck, did some false shuffles and cuts, then dealt out 16 cards on top of the numbered cards (or numbered them as you laid them out), you really would have a miracle!