Ok... sorry, another thread on ACR.

As we all know, ACR is basically an effect that the chosen card jumps to the top. And as we all knows, doing that over and over again can be very boring for the spectators.

A friend of mine suggested that to only keep an ACR to 3 phases so as to sustain the interest. Another suggested more phases but keep the chosen card jumping to different locations.

I'm more for the latter... I wonder what's your yours? And if you are for the latter, what are the phases like?

Eg: Mine is:

1. Card jumps to top, me reveals it.
2. Card jumps to top, audience reveals it.
3. Card jumps to the packet the audience is holding.
4. Card to mouth.
4. Either the bent card thingy or card to pocket to end it.

I don't do the ACR, not until I find a proper ending I like. The usual bend ending is getting saturated. Everybody is using it. Kinda boring you know

Gimmick allowed with an ACR routine? Escalator?

If I have to just perform in three steps.

1. Card to top.
2. Crimped card to top
3. Signed Card to shoe (SHOET) (Preferably perform while standing up)

I like ACR to be done with other top of ending other than getting it to the top. Me myself don't really do much of ACR.

But personally, as an audience, it will be great to have a storyline that brings about climax and the card ended up somewhere impossible, like in shoe, inside audience wallets, and sort..

The signed card to sealed box is one of the best ending to the ACR, with a nice storyline of time going backwards.

Oh yar, I saw the signed card back to sealed box in a cyril performance once, I think its a good storyline to do the entire routine.

Though I dunno where to learn it, can someone pm me to tell me which book or dvd its from?

In my ACR, i would definitely do a card to mouth as the reaction you get is very good and would usually end the routine with the spectator's selected card facing up in the whole deck.

:lol:

jon

I don't think its taught.

Signed card to sealed box is not taught in any book.

Maybe you can analyse how it could be done and you might come out a solution for it.

But the best part of cyril's performance is that, the signed card is not an extra card, but its part of the new deck and in sequence with the numbering of the cards.

If you are interested in how to get a signed card into a sealed card box, you can find it in Greg Gleason Theater Close-up Vol 2.

The effect is similar, the signed card is not an extra card and its part of the new deck and in sequence with the numbering of the cards.

Ace is right, people whom are interested in Cyril's ending can check out that dvd, but do not expect it to be the exact handling like Cyril's. It only provides a solution on how to insert the selected card into a sealed deck.

Yup the handling and presentation is different. The signed card to sealed deck taught in the DVD is a card in impossible location effect. The card will vanish and reappear inside the sealed box.

You have to modify the handling to make it fit into an ACR routine.

I always finsh with card to mouth.Have anyone seen zzzbowenzzz card to ear?its is amazing better then card to mouth very style.

I have problems performing the card to ear...let's say my ear is not really suitable for it =(

You need ears with a nice large flap on the top. And they don't sell them in any magic store =(

I think the question to ask is the "way we reveal the card rising to the top"

If you're going to repeat flipping the top card many times then I would think that the audience might get bored.

Maybe one can try to read off the reactions from a spectator?

If just by flipping a revealing the card back to the top,
and if the reactions are great... I don't mind doing it once more.

however i'd rather build up by varying the methods in which I reveal it.

anyway here's my sequence:

- Card returned to top
- Card is left faced up, returns to top
- Card is bent, visually specs see bent card return to top
- Finale

my finale varies.
It's usually just Card to Mouth, if not it would be torn and restored...
And sometimes I'd show that every other card in the deck is blank.

R™

Or can try the david blaine's version where first the ambitious card goes to the pocket(using p**ming) then later, u take cards out of your pocket again, but it's other cards in the deck except the ambitious card which is the only card left in the hand.

Misd****tion for this trick is hard after the spectators have been cheated once. The hardest part is the second part as to getting the deck in the pocket, leaving the ambitious card. Any advise how to do it?

Check out some variations of the 51 Cards to the Pocket (which is a totally different premise/effect from the Acr - but I guess you could combine it with the Acr if you want to).

This is one of my favourite effects (although I seldom perform it as I haven't found/developed a version that suits me), and I think it such a strong one you should do it on its own.

51 cards to pocket will be one of the strongest and direct card effects i have ever encountered because it is just so hard hitting.

i only know the one that brian tudor taught in one of his dvds which i forgot :P and i thought it was weird. any other sources for it?

so then again here is my routine for ACR :

1) simple rising to the top
2) rising to the top while in spec's hands
3) appears at the top of another pile
4) erdnase CC to display a rise face up

I currently am doing this routine based on the idea that magic can be created with sleight of hand(with ACR) and powers of the mind(with some mind reading). But i find cyril's performance is absolutely stunning and maximizes the potential of an ACR. so i might be dwelling on that idea for a while :D

-Ian

The ACR is my favourite card trick because it is simple, only requires a DL. Moreover, it can be done impromptu with any deck. Even UNO cards!!!

I don't really have a standard routine, but I will generally start off with the simple ones that are not very stunning, before proceeding to the more shocking ones. I usually see the "situation of the card" and the location, whether I am surrounded by people, before deciding my next step in order to not expose any of the sleights or mechanisms (by angle) to the bystanders.

Its taught in his Heckler dvd. Control freak dvd teaches it also.

Another very nice card to pocket would be the dvd by james brown,still fancy a pot of jam.The misdirection in that particular routine is superb.
I also like to do ACR but i find that there is a lot of exposure in this trick.