Dustings #80

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For those of you who ever do some version of the Multiple Universe Selection trick, the ISO app could be used as another bit of “evidence” that you have shifted into a different timeline. For example, a picture of the card your spectator places in their pocket could be taken. And then at the end not only does the card in their pocket change but the picture that was taken changes.

Or really any element from the night can be altered.

I wouldn’t recommend using ISO for a trick that is only about a picture changing, but in this case, this is just one of many details that change—putting less focus on the “how” of that particular detail.

Help me out here… Is there a Rubik’s Cube matching effect that ends with two examinable cubes? If so, drop me an email and let me know about it. I have a presentational idea I want to try out, but it won’t really work unless the trick ends in this manner.

It seems unlikely that such a thing could exist without maybe another cube in play, but I figured I’d ask.

[Update: I think by now I’ve heard about every Rubik’s matching effect there is. Thanks to everyone who wrote in. If you have a really obscure one I might not have heard about, still feel free to let me know.]

My crowning achievement in magic has gone viral again.

An update on my first post of this year where I listed some of my goals for 2023.

Book #6 - Is being written as I type this. Well… no…this blog post is being written as I type this. I just mean the book is being written in this same general time frame. We are on schedule for the October release date.

Trick #1 - Once the book is finished and sent to the printer, this will be the next priority. So that will be happening this summer.

Amateur at the Kitchen Table hardcover reprint - I thought this was going to be the easiest project, but it’s ended up being more complicated. My intention was to re-release the original version with additional content from some related posts I’ve written during the run of this site. But the “expanded” version was ballooning up to somewhere between 500-600 pages. It was just becoming too much and I didn’t want to lose the focus of the original book. So now the plan is to release a hardcover version that is essentially the same as the softcover version with only some minor changes in content (so there’s no need to purchase it if you already have the original).

The other material that was going to be added to the book will instead be part of a series of books that will collect anything from this site that is both useful and timeless and that doesn’t appear in any other books of mine. There is a small group of people who really want a hard copy version release of the content here. So for them, I’ll probably do a multi-volume set that collects that material starting next year. While there will be some minor re-writing, updates, and reformatting to the material, there won’t be anything really new in those books that would warrant buying them unless you are someone who wants the hardcopy version for your library. Otherwise, you can still read the material here for free.