WHAT'S THE EFFECT?
You now spread the tabled set of aces (IN FULL VIEW THROUGHOUT) and their ace is reversed there too!
For those unimpressed at your ability to reverse the named ace, with the cards behind your back, you now show that it has a different coloured back to the other three! AND, as if this weren't enough, you rub all the ink off its face... leaving behind a completely blank faced card! THESE FOUR CARDS CAN NOW BE EXAMINED!
Someone is asked to pick up the tabled set of aces and turn the named ace face down... It too has a different coloured back to the other three! Impressive? Yes, but the best is yet to come. You say that you were so convinced that they would name that particular ace... you didn't bother to bring the other three. Someone flips the other three cards face up to find... three blank facers!
NOTE: This final phase is EXACTLY the same effect as Phil Goldstein's B'WAVE, but... THESE FOUR CARDS CAN BE EXAMINED!
OMEGA is the fruit of a great many hours of cerebral labour, and I honestly believe that it is one of my very best inventions... ever! It was inspired by seeing Phil Goldstein's B'WAVE.
Goldstein's B'WAVE owes much to the immortal BRAINWAVE DECK and, at least, a nod of appreciation in the direction of PARADE OF THE KINGS.
The additional ending, where the three cards not chosen turn out to have blank faces, belongs (I believe?) to Karl Fulves. It was also used by Mark Leveridge, in his CARDS ON PARADE routine, prior to B'WAVE. I also used this ending, after seeing Mark's routine, in THE AMAZING FOUR ACES TRICK, which I performed and explained on my 3rd International Magic Lecture DVD (Dec'1992).
Since B'WAVE hit the market, Dominique Duvlvier has released his NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, and John Bannon has released his TWISTED SISTERS. However, in NONE of these three routines can ALL THE CARDS BE EXAMINED.
I adapted part of the method from THE AMAZING FOUR ACES TRICK and used it in OMEGA.
Jerry Sadowitz - "Superb! The most baffling and incredible packet trick
I've seen in years. Magicians will enjoy performing it as much as their audiences will love watching it!"
Dr. Peter Moffat - "Goldstein, Duvivier and Bannon all make use of
the 'Parade Of The Kings' gimmick. For my money,
your version is the best and uses examinable cards!"
Andrew Scott - "Omega is brilliant! It really puzzled my wife.
She gave it ten-out-of-ten!"
Arthur Emerson - "Omega is omega!"