I will have to watch the ad again, he was quick and I agree that the times didn’t quite match the hand placement.
But the guy on the show did show the face once. He had Simon adjust the stem blind, then showed him and us the time set. Our are you saying he should have displayed the face before setting it to suggest the time actually changed? Yes, that would have been a better effect. Maybe he thought it would be too obvious if the hands don’t actually change position.
I think this is right.
If you watch when he brings his left hand onto screen, it’s already cupped slightly, and he fidgits his gripping of the bottom of the bottle. He’s holding the final deck already.
Honestly, I’m open to a different explanation but I think this must be right. I can’t see any other moment in that video when he can invisibly get rid of that bottle, but there is that one brief moment when there is no space below his hands. Barring straight up photo manipulation, he must drop it at that moment.
This is a trick they’ve done in the past. That’s why they were so excited about being fooled by it. The way Kimlat did it ruled out any of the ways that they know to do it.
I know they see the deck swap in Farquhar’s trick, but I still think it is the more impressive trick. I still don’t have any idea how he does it and even though Ricky Jay does a trick that is nearly the same, apparently Farquhar developed a method only he knows to do it.
I think it Kimlat’s because his handling was more complex and done so smoothly. Also, Farquhar’s trick requires a gimmick, he can’t do it with just any box of cards, Kimlat doesn’t need that. However they are both very good, doing somewhat different things, other than my personal tastes there’s no way to objectively rate one higher than the other.
Farquhar’s trick had him (needlessly) making moves in and out of his jacket multiple times which immediately made me suspect a switch, even if I did not see exactly when it happened. With Kimlat, I could not spot any spurious moves. It was that cleanness that made it impressive.
Which one? Kimlat’s trick we presume is done through sorting of the cards and keeping card positions for a final maneuver at the end.
Farquhar’s I don’t exactly what he did, but he put that card back in the deck after the seal was broken or he has some gimmick to reseal the deck and he put it in before hand. I tend to think we see the original deck at the end, substituted after the seal was broken.
ETA: And if he did do the insert after the seal was broken then I would say he could do it with regular playing cards, I was hasty in saying that was not the case since I don’t know exactly what he did. However it might require gimmicking the box even then.
Also, we haven’t been spoilering reveals in this thread for quite a while, it seems everybody participating has some good knowledge to work with already, and I assume all of these can be looked up online because of the links already posted.
