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The Blurb
Simon Lipkin, star of Derren Brown’s Unbelievable, has concocted a diabolically sneaky set of gimmicks that allow you to achieve jaw-dropping colour prediction effects using NO expensive electronics and NO sleight of hand!
The gimmicks are devious, the effects are mighty, and now they can finally be yours.
For many years Simon performed colour match routines using secret electronics, but after they malfunctioned during the heat of an important performance, he strived to find a superior way. He got to work making lemonade from lemons, or in Simon’s case, making magic from markers. He emerged from his workshop with a close-up utility system that can achieve near-identical effects as their expensive, high-tech counterparts.
The box includes everything you need to begin performing the effects right away, including three Sharpie® markers, the devious gimmicks, long-lasting black Tyvek envelopes, and small pieces of card (billets) for your predictions.
Best of all, if the pens run out of ink, no problem. There are no expensive refills and you can replace them with ease from your local stationery supply store.
In the detailed, online video instructions you will learn:
Simon Lipkin’s Signature Colour Match Routine
A participant chooses any pen at random and uses it to colour in a pre-drawn image. This is repeated a total of three times until a completely random colour combination has been created. Each stage feels so free and so fair, yet, impossibly you are able to predict the outcome of their choices with 100% accuracy.
Originally credited to Tony Anverdi and later popularised by Craig Filicetti, the colour match plot is a modern classic, and now it’s your turn to perform this reputation maker with ease.
Three Will
You introduce three pens, each capped with a black lid. While your back is turned, your participant places each pen in a different pocket. You explain that despite their black appearance, each pen is actually a different colour. From your right pocket you produce a red lid, from your left pocket, a green lid, and from your back pocket, blue. Remarkably, when the participant takes the pens out of their pockets and uncaps them, they discover they’ve matched the same colours to the same pockets.
Colour Dupe
Your participant chooses any pen and draws any picture in secret while your back is turned. Despite both decisions being completely free choices, you are able to not only reveal the colour of the pen they used to draw, but reveal (or duplicate) their entire drawing!
Chenvelope Test
Three pens, three cards, three envelopes and three participants. All of the props are mixed and lots of choices made. Yet despite the fairness, you are able to prove that you knew the outcome of all events way ahead of time in this baffling close-up mentalism routine inspired by the traditional Chair Test plot.
We were originally going to leave it there (because that’s already insane value), but six months later Simon called us with even more ideas! So we invited him back to the studio to teach amazing bonus content including a draw anything colour match effect and a sensational chair test contribution from master mentalist Marc Paul.
Strap in for an entertaining and enlightening journey of (quite literally) colourful mentalism from one of the most exciting new names in magic.
Perform professional-grade, top-tier mentalism without the hefty price tag.
This is Tricolour. Own it now.
“Beautifully simple, and very deceptive!”
– Andy Nyman
“This is fantastic. Nobody needs more gadgets and this is a perfect, practical solution to a great plot.”
– Noel Qualter
“A solid method, reliable gimmicks and smart routining.”
– Christian Grace
“A non-electronic colour match with unlimited uses and applications!”
– Harry De Cruz
“Simon Lipkin, you bloody b*stard. I love this. Ffs.”
– Tom Brace
This is Tricolour. Own it now.
Jheff's Guide
WHAT IT IS:
Gimmick with routine(s) included
HOW ACCURATE OR COMPLETE THE AD COPY IS:
It’s accurate enough.
SET-UP AND RE-SET:
For the Colour Match Routine, you need to have cards pre-drawn for participants to color. If you make a stack of these, then the reset takes seconds. Otherwise, the setup and reset take seconds.
WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED THAT YOU NEED OR NEED TO KNOW:
The ad copy lists black Tyvek envelopes as part of the package. However, in the instructional video, Simon initially demonstrates how to mark the envelopes and they are brown envelopes. You just need to know that later in the video series there is a video about alternative markings and in that one Simon explains how to mark the black envelopes. You could obtain brown versions of these envelopes or use your own envelopes that will accomplish what’s necessary, though.
SUITABLE VENUES:
Close-up, Parlor, Stage, Walkaround, Internet
JHEFF’S JUDGMENT:
I absolutely love well-made, versatile gimmicks that get one’s creative juices flowing and can be adaptable to anyone’s style and needs. This certainly ticks off all these boxes and makes this one of the best investments of the year.