This is a special deck that consists of cards depicting individual letters of the alphabet, some word words and some special character cards and some picture cards, all with the bicycle back design. This deck is avialable in either red or blue bicycle back design.
The actual composition of the letter deck is:
- Individual letters of the alphabet = 26 cards.
- Vowel cards, A, E, I, O, U = 5 cards.
- Extra V, S, N, R, T, L = 6 cards.
- Special characters cards (see picture) = 10 cards.
- Double face cards = 5 cards.
- Other special cards = 4 cards.
Total is 56 cards.
You are given a link to a 1 hour 25 minutes video tutorial conducted by a magician with a French accent. Altogether, 10 tricks are taught.
The first 7 effects describe how to use each of the various revelation cards. You learn the various ways of forcing the word to be revealed with the prediction cards.
Trick numbers 8, 9 and 10 are actual routines. I shall dscribe them in more details.
Trick No 8 – as the performer deals the cards into 2 piles, the spectator stops him at any time. The 2 cards stopped at have the same letter V. These 2 V’s then merge together into one card with a diamond symbol. The next 7 cards also match, and they are the letters A, E, L, N, R, T, U. They rearrange to spell RENAULT, the French made card with the diamond logo.
Trick No 9 – the performer places a ? prediction card on the back of one of 3 face down cards. The spectator chooses 5 cards. They care arranged spell OMEGA, matching the Ω selected by the spectator. The other 2 cards are turned over to reveal the sigma sign and the delta sign respectively.
Trick No 10 – the performer displays an eye chart with the various sizes letters. He lays 16 cards in a 4 X 4 matrix and a spectator mixes the cards some face up and some face down. The face down cards are rearranged to spell VODKA. The performer shows how the spectator was influenced by the eye chart to select the cards V, O, D, K, A. The eye chart can also reveal 2 other words: PIANO or SANDWICH.
If you use bicycle cards for your card magic performances, and you want to use letter cards, this is the perfect deck to own. When you purchase, please specify whether you want the cards in red or blue bicycle backs.
There is one gimmick card that is useful in card magic, and that is the double-back card. With this special card, card changes become very simple to execute. However, this is not supplied with the letters deck. This is a common gimmick card that you can obtain from any magic dealer.
If you do mentalism and tricks involving letters, the bicycle special letters deck is indispensable. (Rated 5/5 stars)
