Reviews of products by Michael Daniels
1 ★★★★★ reviews
Mostly Perfect / Perfectly Possible: Combo
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Hans-Christian Solka (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 19 June, 2025)
EXCELLENT!
In Mostly Perfect, M. Daniels teaches sequential magic squares. Ideally, you can construct a so-called ‘most-perfect,’ ‘diabolic,’ ‘panmagic,’ ‘super-magic’ or ’pandiagonal’ magic square. The book is the MOST IMPORTANT magic book on 4x4 magic squares until 2015.
The Perfectly Possible method directly exploits a unique property of the ‘most perfect’ squares. Daniels’ methods are suitable for all even and odd sums.
BTW: The well-known 4x4 ‘most-perfect’ magic square used by Harry Lorayne dates back in magic to Robert A. Nelson in 1929 and was popularized by Theodore Annemann in “Book Without A Name” in 1931. Lorayne had - as was usually the case - forgotten to cite the sources.
More Mind Magic
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 06 November, 2024)
More Mind Magic is a collection of four mentalism effects that are suited to close-up and especially one-to-one performance. Michael Daniels' crisply written collection will stimulate your thinking and, if you do any mentalism at all, there is likely an effect among the four that you will pick up and try. My personal favorite is Cyclops, which allows the mentalist to correctly identify and name in order a stack of 5 ESP cards while they remain stacked. You do not touch the cards.
Understanding and Using Gilbreath Principle
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 05 November, 2024)
Well-written, succinct, and focused. Highly recommended.
Zodiac Oracle
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Ray Jack (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 09 April, 2024)
This is a smart idea in principle. A very clever application of the classic clock trick. But the downside is the laborious counting procedure. It is almost like dealing two full deck of playing cards. Although a shortcut is given, it makes the process a little suspicious. But overall a good idea to have in your arsenal.
Speed Dating
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Ethan Pitt (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 29 November, 2023)
Honestly the best and fastest method out there, quite a bit to learn, but once learnt, gold. I made up my own memory pegs which I encourage, but all in all this is fabulous.
Zodiac Oracle
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by David Burmeister (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 25 July, 2020)
This is another great effect from Michael Daniels. You can use it on the phone because of covid and I don't believe that it would be that difficult to memorize the effect If you are interested in revealing a person their Zodiac sign AND AGE! One thing for sure, the spectator will be amazed!!! Well done Michael Daniels!
Perfectly Possible
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jean-Marie Beckers (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 25 November, 2018)
Very highly recommended. Crystal clear explanation, help for easy memorization of the principle and very nice application for testing. The resulting magic square is nicely balanced. As one says: this is a no brainer, just buy it.
Perfectly Possible
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Chris Aguilar
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 04 October, 2018)
Within a day or two of reading (and practicing with the including testing webpage) this "Math Challenged" guy is able to quick generate the magic squares in less than a minute. Would highly recommend to anyone wanting to learn a very easy, effective way of creating 4x4 magic squares.
Mostly Perfect / Perfectly Possible: Combo
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Angela X (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 06 January, 2017)
These are a couple of cool methods for doing instant magic squares. Easy to learn and quick to perform. Just a bit of practice and you are on your way. Once acquired, these will be your permanent assets. Easy on pocket too.
Mostly Perfect / Perfectly Possible: Combo
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Michael Lyth (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 14 December, 2016)
Excellent method and well thought out - recommended.
Understanding and Using Gilbreath Principle
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Michael Lyth (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 29 November, 2016)
Gilbreath Principle is always worth reading if you can find a copy of mental card miracles by Nick Trost a Micky Hades Publication find within a routine called Dr Rhine outdone where Gilbreath principle is used. Norman Gilbreath's Principle was first mentioned in the July issue of the Linking Ring 1958. I was born on August the 6th the following year. (Nothing to do with the principle but I do love Maths and the odd birthday card would be truly amazing from any Magician reading this L.O.L )
As to this eBook I would highly recommend for contents and value for money and not to be missed. I would recommend researching all you can find for this principle as I feel it should not be missed by the Magical performer.
Understanding and Using Gilbreath Principle
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Christian Fisanick (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 18 November, 2016)
So you don't know what the Gilbreath Principle (or Gilbreath Permutation) is, and Perci Diakonis and Ron Graham's incredibly detailed book Mathematical Magic scares the hell out of you because you weren't good at math in school. Never fear. For the price of a coffee (or cheap domestic beer) and I would say about half an hour of your time, you will be blown away. It boils down to this: There are mathematical oddities in the world that seem completely impossible (Benford's Law concerning the relative frequencies of the first digit in data sets comes to mind. It applies to election votes, lengths of rivers, street addresses, and all kinds of crazy things.) Anyway, the Gilbreath Principle basically says that randomly mixing (in a certain way) two ordered data sets will give you a different data set, but that data set will also be ordered. In other words, mix two halves of a deck that alternates red and black suits, and you'll get a deck that has groups that... Well, you are just going have to read this ebook. Author Daniel does a super job of making you understand this without any math notation. Follow along, and you will be convinced. And then he gives you two killer routines. Did I mention that this is $4? Cardicians and mentalists will find a lot to love here if you've never used this principle before. This is one of these principles that apart from mathematicians and magicians, very few people know because it's counterintuitive: Randomly mixing a nicely ordered deck will give you a randomly ordered deck, right? Nope. Laypeople will have no idea how you predict/know things about a fairly riffle shuffled deck. It seems impossible. But it isn't. It's easy to work miracles once you know this, one of the greatest weird math principles of all time. And there are no formulas, difficult counting, or memory work involved. Highly recommended.
Equirock
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Christian Fisanick (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 26 May, 2016)
This is a clever, nearly self-working way to force one of three objects (or more, using the material given to extend the principle) under the guise of playing rock-paper-scissors. There are no sleights, equivoque, marked cards, psychological subtleties, or complicated moves involved; you just have to understand the principles, which are a snap and will take about five minutes. It plays quite naturally, and you'll be able to figure out quite a few uses for this utility routine. For example, it is the perfect substitute for the initial equivoque if you are doing a positive/negative routine where you need to force a coin. The author is a real theoritician when it comes to describing mentalism processes so the ebook is well written. For $10, you can't go wrong adding this to an arsenal of equivoque, PATEO, and Quinta.
Equirock
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Gerard Zitta (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 13 December, 2012)
Very good idea and ebook. I like it and recommend it.
Gerard Zitta