 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Wealth Doxy. My name is David and this is the Magic Review. Hey, today we're gonna look at Symbol from Steve Cook and Alec Zamm. What is Symbol? Basically it's a packet trick, okay? And you have a bunch of the ESP cards and then you have one prediction on the table and the Spectator has a completely free selection of any one of the shapes and you are able to show without any sort of trickery or weird switching that the card they picked is the one that's in the envelope. You wanna see what the trailer looks like? This is it. You hand your Spectator an envelope and after explaining the power of influence, you introduce six colored symbol cards. Your Spectator makes a random decision and yet when you open the envelope, the prediction inside matches their choice 100%. So what I'm gonna ask you to do there's six cards, six symbols, I want you to imagine in your mind you have a dice, okay? You're gonna roll that dice and it's gonna land on a number. But I don't want you to choose the first number it lands on because once again you might think well maybe everyone will think of that number, okay? So I want you to spin it a few times until it lands on a number and if you want you can change that number. It's gotta be a random choice and a random action. So tell me when you're happy with the number in your mind. Okay. You got one? Yeah. What number have you got? A number six. Number six, okay. So you've got another choice to make. If this was number one, this would be number six. If this was number one, this would be number six. Which one's number six? The star or the circle? The star. Sure? Yeah. Okay, we're gonna take the star, we're gonna place it here, we don't need any of these. But inside the envelope, remember the envelope has been on the table since the very beginning. Yeah. There is one card. You take it out, just pop it there face down and let me just show you there is nothing else in there. Yeah. Turn it over and have a look. That is really cool. My name is Peter Nardi and this is Symbol. All right, so that was Symbol from Steve Cook. This is being put out from Alec Zamm. If you don't know Steve Cook, you might remember he did Mental Case or he did a poker chip prophecy. All right, so a couple questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box for Symbol? You're gonna get a DVD, you're gonna get all of the necessary cards, they're very well made and you're gonna get a little tiny black card envelope. Is it what I thought? Is it what I thought? It is absolutely what I thought. I thought it would be a ESP card routine and that you would get ESP cards and that there would be some sort of a routine where they're able to make free decisions and then you reveal the necessary out and that's pretty much what it is. But don't let that discourage you. The routine on this is awesome. I think when I first watched this and this kind of goes along with is it what I thought? I'll say yes and no because on the one hand I was right but on the other hand I wasn't because at first glance it almost looks like you're gonna end up doing a hot rod routine because there's six choices. This is not a hot rod routine, hot rod force does not come into this at all and so I don't want that to be in the forefront of your mind. This is so much more diabolical than that, okay? Is totally well scripted and very well thought and very well put together. So how are the angles on this? There is absolutely no angles. There's nothing for the spectator to see or catch or glimpse. There's no, there's really no sleight of hand to this at all, okay? This isn't a card trick. This is a mentalism routine and so there's not any of that kind of flashing that you'll need to be worried about. Can it be inspected? On the DVD, David Loosley and Peter Nardi, they will give you two different options for your kicker reveal, okay? One, I would say would be fine for lay people and that one isn't examinable. It's not examinable. They're gonna give you a second option that you would do for people who are a little bit more with it and probably that you would do on magicians and this one is perfectly examinable. So a magician's ending is examinable and that is the one I would recommend doing anyway. What's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? It's everything that you would expect from Alec exam. It's David Loosley, Peter Nardi, they're sitting on a couch, they're doing the trick and all the explanations on a coffee table. You're getting two really good shots. You're getting your wide shot and then your close-up shot, your over-the-shoulder shot. They're gonna give you everything you need to learn in the 26 minutes the DVD plays. HD, well-miked, everything you want from a instructional magic DVD. All right, so is it well-made? You know, I think a lot of times when you get these little packet tricks and the cards aren't bicycle cards, you kinda wonder, oh, how are these cards? Are they gonna be flimsy, cheap, little pieces of the cardboard? Not at all, these are great cards. They're gonna last you a good long time. They're very well-made, very bright colors, very vivid imagery. Everything's clean, looks very professional. You're gonna be proud to stick this in your little card wallet and carry it around as a packet trick. How much practice does it require? Like I said at the beginning, there isn't any difficulty to this. There's no slights, it's not a difficult trick. You're only learning the routine. You learn the routine, you learn the scripting, you learn the trick. I think once you've committed to memory and you've done it a couple of times, you'll know this for the rest of your life. How much setup and reset is there? There is practically none. There's really only one or two things you need to remember when you're putting it together or laying it all out, but it's really simple. It's, you could just scoop it all up from a table and go to another table easily and do the setup right in front of the spectator. They're not gonna catch a thing. There's really no setup and it's got an instant reset. All right, so what are the positives? What are the positives to symbol from Steve Cook? Like I said, there's very natural outs to this, very natural outs. There's no bad choices your spectator can make. They're not gonna pick a number and you're gonna like, ah, now we're gonna go this direction. There's no bad choices. Like I said before, this is not a hot rod force. That's a great positive. You know, I love packet tricks and this for me combines the best of both worlds. It's small and contained and yet it packs a wallop and I think it'll fool magicians. Negatives, what are the negatives for symbol? You know, like we say around here, there's an ah, who am I kidding? There's no negatives to this at all. There is no negatives. Impact DVD, everything you need in a 26 minute shot. You're not sitting there watching it for hours and hours and hours. You're like, get to the point. They give it all to you in 26 minutes. It's David Loosley and Peter Nardi. They're gonna give you everything you need. High quality DVD, high quality gimmick, great routine, awesome outs. You can't go wrong with symbol from Steve Cook. All right, so is it worth your money? 25 bucks. 25 bucks is pretty much a dollar a minute. Plus on top of that, you're getting the well-made gimmicks. I think it's definitely worth your money. Who would like this? Mentalists, walk around. People who do card magic but have always wanted to get into mentalism. People that love packet tricks, I think would definitely love symbol from Steve Cook. All right, so that is my review for symbol from Steve Cook and Alec Asam Magic. As always, we wanna thank Murphy's Magic for providing this trick for me so that I could review it for you. And if you'd like to purchase it for yourself, you can find it at one of your favorite Murphy's Magic retailers. Thanks, bye.