 Hey everybody welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at GPS pack nav from Oliver Meach. What is this trick? Um, basically it takes the idea of GPS, okay Electronic satellite navigation and combines it with a playing card trick so that when your spectator finds their card And they sign it and it goes back into the deck you pretend to use GPS to find their card You want to see what it looks like? This is it Hi, I'm Oliver Meach and welcome to GPS pack now now I'm really pleased to share this trick with you because I think it's got quite a few things going for it So first off it's got quite an intriguing premise and secondly, it's got a lot of audience interaction, which is always fun Thirdly, it's got some built-in time-risk direction quite a lot of it and Fourthly kind of unusually for a card to impossible location kind of trick The ending is genuinely surprising to people while still being logical We've all heard of sat nav's or GPS. I'm gonna show Deej a pack So first off, please take the pen hold it like you're about to write that's great And then just say stop as I run down the back stop Okay, take those please and I'd like you to write on the other side of this card You'll post code and don't worry. It's just for magic reasons not for stalking All right, so I'll hold it steady and I'll look away. So go for it when you're done if you can cap the pen I'll grab it back Cool. All right, so I'm gonna take your car. I'm gonna place it into those. They lift off a chunk of cards That's it pop on on top. Thank you. I'm without further ado. I give you The back now now to the untrained eye. I may look just like a chunk of cards But if we take the clip off I can show you but actually just like a Sat nav helps you find your destination the pack now GPS pack now is going to find your card Hopefully so we'll turn it on set it going Calculating route takes about three hours I'll get a bit quicker bit quicker. In fact, let's swap. So can you hold those like that? And I'll take these and Every time I say next I'd like you to take the front card move it to the back and then read out the next instruction So go for it after four cards turn right excellent. Okay, so we go one two three four And turn those over and we've got a queen. Okay, let's talk about that next cues ahead use ahead was What does that mean? Let's let's have a look. We've got a queen Queen Queen Queen. Oh Cues Cuckoo Cuckoo suit. I should point out. It's got a great sense of direction. Not such a great sense of humor Okay, next. What do we got? You have reached your destination. All right. Well, let's have a look one face down car Maybe yours. Yes. No, no, maybe not. Okay. I'm a magician. I'm supposed to find your car. I failed. I'm sorry I Don't know what shall I do Pac-Man next take the exit. Okay, bye No, wait, wait, wait, we can salvage this please next good Turn around when possible turn around when possible. All right, so we'll see if we can turn this into your car So we'll turn it around like this and like this It changes. Oh next card You have reached your destination. Okay. Ah, so was it a red card? It was was it a red six? Yes, was it the six of diamonds? No. Oh, so close. They are the six of hearts Maybe we have reached our destination. Could you please turn over that card that you've been holding since the start It's that's your card. It is show the camera. Shazam, and you can keep that as a souvenir All right, so that was Oliver Meach. He is based out in the UK You might be familiar with some of his other tricks He did a couple of books actually he did drawn in and plot twists, and you might want to check those out 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 bag? What is in the bag? You're gonna get a plastic bag and then it inside that you're gonna get a DVD DVDs 23 minutes long And you're gonna get all the cards that you need to do this trick. There's seven GPS cards, and then there's 20 Destination cards and the destination cards you can have the spectator sign and they get to keep it as a souvenir And so since there's 20 cards you can do this trick 20 times or you can do it 19 times and then keep one But you never give away. I guess you could have that option as well. Is it what I thought absolutely at its core It is a card trick. Okay, and it kind of follows the plot Like Sam the bellhop, you know if you've seen Sam the bellhop or you're already familiar with that kind of routine Basically at the deck stack and then you walk the spectator through the stack Showing them different cards that kind of reveal different clues about the story and so instead of using the old vintage Sam the bellhop story what Oliver has done is he's redressed it with GPS satellite navigation Directions that I think more people are familiar with how are the angles there aren't any it's a really easy Card trick, okay, and there's no real Slights or moves. It's pretty much all laid out within the deck stack. Can it be inspected? Absolutely. In fact the at the end of it you give them the gaff card, right? The card that they've written on the back side of it will have the GPS Locator on it. So kind of also makes it a Card to impossible location effect as well So you got Sam the bellhop card to impossible location kind of married together And so like I said you get 20 of those and so you get 20 shots to do that trick What's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? It looks like Oliver Meach kind of self-produced this himself So probably shot it himself, but it is well done he has a studio performance and He walks everything through for you in those 23 minutes and it's well shot. All right So is the product well made? Oliver has done all these cards Through bicycle so United States playing card company made all these cards. So they're on great stock They're gonna fit right in with all of your other bicycle made Normal faces decks. How much practice is this trick require not a whole lot? Like I said at the beginning it is a deck stack at its core and then you just follow the deck stack through Remembering the story so if you can remember the story, you know the pattern that goes along with it and how the deck is stacked It'll follow itself and walk you right through. All right, so what are the positives? What are the positives to GPS pack math Oliver Meach has created a very whimsical card trick But it's sure to put a smile on all of your audience's faces negatives What are the negatives to GPS pack math? You know like we say around here? There's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives that I see they don't have to be the negatives that you see There's a couple of things in this deck the kind of lend Your audience to go what because You know Oliver Meach is from the UK and we don't call GPS sat nav Which is what pack nav is a play on words for? Sat nav is what they call GPS in the UK sat nav is satellite navigation. We just say GPS So the first card there the title I guess you could skim right past and just say hey look It's GPS because it says GPS and just ignore the fact that it says pack nav there's another card though that says cues ahead and We don't say cues in the United States. We say lines. We say you're gonna get in line You don't say you're gonna get in a into a cue and if the cars are all in line You wouldn't say that was traffic or you might say the cars were in line But you wouldn't say the cars were in cues and so it's a play on words because in your deck of cards There are cards with a letter Q on them Right the Queens, but that would be a joke for somebody in the UK, but it wouldn't really be a joke for somebody in America, so I think some of those references are lost on an American audience, but Oliver will Talk to you about how you could eliminate some of those cards from your routine if that bothered you Is it worth your money? It's 40 bucks $40 and you get a 23 minute DVD and you can only do this trick 20 times if you have the card signed every time And then you have to buy it again Seems a little high for me. It would have been nice to have gotten more cards for 40 bucks That's just me, but I mean a normal deck of cards Is around 10 12 $15, so it seems for $40 I could have gotten an entire deck. I don't know That's just me who would like this I think fans of Sam the bill hop fans that like little stories that you know go through a deck stack and you make your audience laugh It's fun, and it's whimsical. Maybe you've wanted to do a card to impossible location, and this seems right up your alley Definitely should check out GPS pack math from Oliver Meach All right, so that is my review for GPS pack math from Oliver Meach I want to thank Murphy's magic for providing this trick for me so that I could do the review for you And if you want to purchase it for yourself, you can find it at your favorite Murphy's magic dealer. Thanks. Bye