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What an absolute beauty this card box is from Bill Adams’ World of Magic. This is one of the very few card boxes I have seen that locks both ways – before the change the box can be examined and after the change too.  In fact you can actually use it multiple times. The craftsmanship on this box is easily as good as Owens Magic.

There are no magnets to get in the way either, with nothing added or taken away.  Pretty much the perfect Card Box.

Notice: It is a good size but will not hold a standard Jumbo card.

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The standard version of this effect was apparently so popular the mini version was released about six months later.  When I first saw this version I thought it was the mini version until I received it and noticed it weighed twice as much as the standard version.  So this is not the “Mini” version.  Internally it is quite a lot more complex than the original version released by Tannen’s too.  So I don’t know if this was later released by Tannen’s or in fact a different manufacturer.  I am assuming it was created by a different manufacturer.

The one improvement on this version is you can cleanly slowly the back of the prop without any thumbs.  However, this also means that you actually have to touch the box to discover what the choices were.

Although this appears to be a copy of the Tannen’s version (which itself is inspired by Ed Mellon’s Quantimental) it could in fact have been released earlier.

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This clever effect is sadly not new with Tannen’s 🙁

The same basic method was actually created ten years earlier by Ed Mellon and engineered by James Swoger as Quantimental. In fact Quantimental is easier to set, more flexible, quieter, and has more choices.

However, even if Divining Rods is not as good as the original it is still a great prop and will certainly fool the average person. As we saw with the Jewels of Shah Jahan the problem with these clever devices that allow us to determine what the spectators have chosen is how to reveal them.  I thought about a simple routine which I hope will come over in my Speed Demo 🙂

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