“One nice feature of Bob Miller’s PreDate is that there are options for all skill levels to make the effect as deceptive as you wish. But the really great thing about this clever calendar routine is that your personality will enhance it. You will find your own way to introduce synchronicity, coincidence, kismet, chance, or fate into the conversation. The lively graphics of Bob Miller’s calendar will further the mystery, and if you play it right, a significant date in the life of your spectator will seem to be known to you in advance. How else could the climax be explained? You will establish a personal connection with the person you are entertaining—and who knows where the relationship might lead? This trick could facilitate your success at speed dating, or make you a fortune. It’s all in your hands. Buy it. All this for only $30? How can it be?”
—Bob Fellows, Mentalist
“…yours is the first mobile phone version I’ve seen that isn’t an app (which is a big plus). I really enjoyed your performance of the stage version, which sold me on the value of the comparison graphics. I know I’m going to perform this often since I don’t need to carry around a printed calendar and can even use a borrowed, shuffled deck.”
— Scott, customer
“You do not have to be a math professor to perform this very entertaining and cerebral routine. Predate by Bob Miller is an astonishing effect with timeless patter, can be performed close up or platform, can easily be performed again, and is a solid addition to any repertoire. Predate is classic Bob Miller. Highly recommended!”
— DJ Ehlert
Kenosha Magic
Author of Success Strategies for the Restaurant Performer
“Really like how you mixed up things with text, pictures and hand drawings. I use it all the time on my iPhone… Great thinking, great product, great trick.”
— Geoff Williams, author of Aronson Stack for Everybody, and Mnemonica for Everybody
“Bob has created a masterpiece here and is making it available to performers at a very reasonable price – I cannot recommend enough what a good deal this is.”
— Matthew P, UK
REVIEW from Vanish Magazine:
This is a physical product: a 2019 PreDate Calendar, printed with the Aronson stack.
And includes a 2020 refill pack. (Limited time offer!)
It comes in a pocket-size black vinyl folder.
No memorization required. The calendar does the work.
You don’t need to know anything about the Aronson stack, but this calendar is a good choice if you want to learn the stack.
If you want to learn a different stack, like the Tamariz (Mnemonica), then order that version of the PreDate Trick Package.
If you know a card stack, the trick looks even better.
Includes a link to video instructions.
Also includes printed instructions.
MY THOUGHTS:
I’ been a huge fan of the calendar type routine for as long as I can remember. Bob offers a unique and super easy way to perform this that you can easily do after reading the instructions or watching the online tutorial. You receive a special pocket calendar in a vinyal wallet. The spectators can examine everything and will find nothing to elude them to the secret. At the back of the small calendar are pictures showing 4 suits and seasons, 13 ranks of cards and the 13 Lunar Cycles and if you add one Joker you will get 365, which matches 365 days of the year. This type of patter makes sense to the spectators and Bob has made it easy to understand by putting graphics of this in the back of the booklet. In this routine the spectator calls out their favorite day and month of the year. This is what I really like about this type of routine because it has some type of meaning for the spectator and can lead to some interesting conversations. The secret lies in plain sight which only you can detect and within seconds you will know the card on their date. If you are able to work a stack then you can add this to your performance as well. For example, you bring out a deck of cards and have them name ANY date. They then get to choose a playing card. THEN you show them the calendar explaining the seasons, etc. You then go to the date they chose and a playing card is written there. The card they chose matches the date they chose.
Some of the main points include the graphics guide the patter, no memorizing, no card stack (although you COULD use one if you want to take it a step further), no cards are repeated in a month and it’s super easy to do.
Bob has created a really great and practical little piece of magic here and a good addition to the calendar premise. A side note is that Bob has created software that allows him to print any stack you want so you could incorporate this in to a stacked deck if you have one. The trick itself is available in either Aronson stack or Tamariz/Mnemonica stack, but as mentioned it isn’t necessary to used a stacked deck or to have a stack memorized. The calendar itself has no year printed visibly so it may be used indefinitely. He also has an interesting idea/offer if you want to do this using your phone.
WHERE: Great for any style of close-up magic from walk-about to sit down performances.
WHO From the complete beginner to the seasoned professional.
Paul Romhany