The Yellow Brick Road by Olaf Güthling, Tenyo

This beautiful version of Tenyo’s The Yellow Brick Road was created by Olaf Güthling c. 2024.

It is based on The Yellow Brick Road performed by Toru Suzuki at the Tenyo Magic Fan Meeting held in Yokohama (about 30 minutes from Tokyo).  This effect was based on the “Fortune Telling Card” created in 1998 and released in 1999 as part of the Tenyo Plus One campaign.

Olaf created a new graphic and had it professionally printed on aluminum. The wooden frame is made of certified mahogany. It is a very solidly made item and looks perfect in the Porcupine 🙂

Effect: Ask your spectator to select their favorite number between 10 and 20, then count the number of holes outward (clockwise) from the center of the spiral drawn on the front of the board. Insert a straw into the hole where it stopped, turn the board over, count the same number outwards (clockwise) from the hole where the straw was inserted, and look at the name of the card where it stopped. Even though there was only one path and the spectator told a completely arbitrary number, the resulting card was predicted in advance.

(Yuki Kadoya – Genii Magazine, July 2022, pp 17.)

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