Reviews of products by Scott Cram
1 ★★★★★ reviews
Day One
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by jordan Byrd (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 14 February, 2025)
Still requires a bit of math and memory, but a lot less than others. May be worth it, but I’m still looking for something simpler.
Day One
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Geoffrey Smith
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 09 April, 2020)
A fantastic product at a fantastic price ... unbelievable.
I can do this in my head with no problem, now.
A real worker. Everything is made so simple and easy to learn. Great fun.
I wish Scott had a solution to turn the revealed day of the week into the appropriate Astrological Zodiac sign.
Perpetual Calendar for your iPod/iPhone/PDA/cell-phone
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Ferry Gerats (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 18 September, 2016)
How wonderful to make this available. Thank you Scott Cram!
Terry LaGerould's Pasteboard Presentations II
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Paul Hallas (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 06 August, 2014)
If you love entertaining card magic you’d be far better served purchasing this e-book than the latest card magic books and DVD’s coming onto the market. The read and then perform ratio will be far higher than most magic books. The first Pasteboard Presentations is out of print and if found swaps hands for high prices on the internet, if you missed that, don’t miss this. You’ll easily find a new complete set for your close up performances.
Familiar ‘effects’ may be covered, like assemblies and triumphs and there may be cleverer versions out there method wise but the important thing about the routines is their presentations. Of course you’ll change some to suit your style, but at least you’ll have an entertaining starting point.
You’ll no doubt have your own favorites, but those that went straight into my repertoire were: Royal Victory, a reasonably simple effect where five randomly selected cards apparently change into a royal flush.
Instantane e ace-ly. A great four of a kind production thanks to a patter everyone can identify with. With a little thought you can use four queens and instantly follow up with...
The Illusive Cocktail Gals. A simple assembly routine great for bars etc. Tip, don’t have the spectator put a beer glass on the pile as the condensation will wet your cards. A stemmed glass is fine, but occasionally I’ve suggested they use their imaginations to imagine the card box is a large heavy tray of drinks rather than use a glass.
Up The Down Staircase. This is an easy triumph routine involving four queens and could also be used as a lead in to the latter effect.
Cardboard Sobriety Test. This plays far better than it might read. Terry took an old self worker, added a sleight, a couple of other things and a clever presentation and knocked it out of the ball park. I know how good it is I’ve used it.
Jewel Thief—This is another simplistic thing I didn’t think would play well but it did. I’m not a big fan of spectators holding cards under the table but it’s worth it just to watch the spectator switch out his own card.
Okay, those are just the ones I’ve actually used out in the real world. I started to play with Ace Shuttle but stopped when I realized I already had in my repertoire a far simpler version of the same effect (Aldo Colombini’s “Jumbo” in print in one of his books and on his DVD “Stand Up Card Magic”).
At some point I’m sure I’ll go back and work more on “Unforgettable” a three phase routine where a spectators thought of card vanishes from five cards twice, then all the cards but the thought of card disappear. There are other routines in the book, but for me these were the ones that stood out.
Day One
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Aaro Sorva (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 23 September, 2012)
This is great. I love it. It's very easy to do and you can learn any date of the year with simple mnemonics.