Save Your Money

I saw your new post on the Unnamed Magician’s open prediction trick. I have collected a lot of his published work. So I am familiar with his thinking. 

There are some tricks that he’s already published that also appeared impossible prior to his publishing them. It’s because of this that I suspect this open prediction trick of his may be real. This wouldn’t be the first time he’s come out with a trick that seemed impossible. 

As an example of a seemingly impossible trick that he’s already published, have a look at the demo video contained within this product page:

There are also some conditions listed in the page. In light of those conditions, I and many of my magician friends thought this trick to be impossible before it was published. It was originally released as a magic contest, which I was a part of. I was sure that one of the conditions had to be false, but that wasn’t the case in reality. —M

A bunch of people have emailed me to ask if I'd been taken up on the offer in my last mailbag post to promote and purchase 200 copies of The Unnamed Magician's Open Prediction.

The answer is no. Which means you can pretty much put this one to bed. It's vaporware.

To the emailer above I wrote:

There's a big difference between the tricks though. The Gift has all the hallmarks of a magic trick: the performer's deck, no shuffles, very rigid procedure, the deck going out of play behind the magician's back. Even if you don't know exactly how it's done, you can see the areas that can be exploited to make the trick work.

If you look at the Unnamed Magician's work, it all has very unnatural, procedural methods. To think he all of a sudden figured out a straightforward trick with no apparent method seems unlikely to me.

This is sort of how you know the trick isn't real—by comparing it to his previous releases. There's no connective thread between the types of tricks he has released in the past and this one.

And he just happens to have a completely different marketing strategy for this effect: "If enough people pay me, I'll release the trick." Oh, that's convenient.

I feel bad for the guy, because it seems he needs money. But this isn't the way to go about it.

I'm not trying to pick on him. I'm in a position where I can help him (if this is real). Or help everyone else (by pointing out it's not real).

No need to email me to see if he's been in touch about taking me up on my offer. I will update this post if that ever happens.