I’ve been writing these weekly newsletter posts for six months. I’m as surprised as you are and incredibly thankful you’re subscribed. It turns out that the most popular newsletter post is the first one I ever shared. I’m not sure what that means for the rest of the posts, but I do know it means I should to write something similar to the first again. So here we go.
Today, I present for your reading pleasure… how to perform Master Prediction Box for $5. A collection of method ideas that will help demonstrate how the rules are different in the TV magic playground.
Master Prediction Box is the best versatile stage prop ever built. Closely followed by the AmazeBox. Everything I know about the master prediction effect I learned from Harry De Cruz, who knows more about the illusion than anyone. He has a ton of small tweaks and subtleties that make everything stronger.
What is master prediction? In simple terms, it’s a box hanging freely on the stage, and inside it is a pasta tube* containing a scroll** that is unravelled to reveal any prediction the magician wishes***.
* Just call it a tube, why do magicians call it a pasta tube? How many people in the audience know what a pasta tube is?
** It’s a scroll if your accomplice is a boss or it’s a folded up piece of paper if they are not a boss.
*** It’s amazing that when magicians are given an illusion that allows them to predict literally anything from a box hanging above the stage, a majority of them will just do Derren’s “I predicted the whole show” routine.
