Venue: Close-up with a table. Not practical for restaurant work because of time constraints and the need for a table. Can work for stand-up shows with a small crowd.
Buzz: Dill and Weber have streamlined a card classic. Lay people will probably not know the difference and react equally to both the classic and this method. Magicians, on the other hand, will react strongly to "A New World."
Definitely Out of This World
Paul Curry’s Out of This World is an amazing card trick that makes order out of seeming chaos and compliments the spectators. By seemingly using their intuition, spectators are able to sort out black cards from red ones without looking at them. The effect uses a normal deck and at the end, you’re clean.Now, from the brilliant minds of Dean Dill and Michael Weber comes "A New World," their impressive new version of “Out of This World.” The gimmicked deck in this approach makes for a cleaner effect, but as with any trick that involves a gimmick, particularly those that spectators handle, audience management is paramount. I think the risk is worth it.
Color This World
In classic Out of This World (OOTW), a spectator is given a deck of cards. A black card and red card are laid out on the table face-up to form the start of black and red piles. The spectator deals cards face down from the deck and uses his or her “intuition” to deal black and red cards onto the appropriate pile. At the end, the piles are turned over to reveal that the spectator did indeed separate the cards into black and red ones without looking at them.Those of you who are familiar with the trick know that it uses a normal but stacked deck, and there is an important switch near the end. A New World removes the need for the switch and the inconsistency in the layout and clean-up, and allows a spectator to shuffle the cards
I’ve never performed classic OOTW ala Paul Curry, but occasionally perform Harry Lorayne’s “Impromptu Out of This World,” which was published in "My Favorite Card Tricks" (Louis Tannen, 1965). I’ve always enjoyed this approach because the trick uses a normal deck and spectators can completely shuffle the deck and mix the cards. You start with a mixed-up, non-stacked deck and the effect gets a great reaction.
Cleaner But Gimmicked
A New World relies on a heavily gimmicked deck. The handling of the deck is natural so it doesn’t call to itself. And the spectator can shuffle the deck with some management and direction from the performer. Throughout, casual but firm audience control is a must.The gimmicked deck removes the need to begin new piles in the middle and execute the switch at the end. On the downside, the outcome can only be displayed by the magician and you’re not left clean. “A New World” uses only half of the deck for the effect, which works well. I’ve never seen the need to sort an entire deck.
