Feeling deceived... – Magic Trick Review

The premise behind this trick is awesome. It's a great idea. There's a slight problem however - it doesn't work (at least, not as described). Supposedly you can have someone select five cards either by choice or by random. The magician selects one of the 5 cards and the spectator inputs the other four cards into the iPhone. When the "Guess" button is pressed, in theory, the one remaining card (chosen by the magician) should be revealed. I fiddled with this app for a little over an hour. Here were my observations... I chose 5 cards at random. I selected one card to be the "unknown" and the other 4 were plugged into the iPhone. How the application deduces the 5th card is not clear to me at this time. Interestingly enough however, the 5th card was never properly identified. To make matters worse, depending on the order that the 4 cards are input into the iPhone will generate a different result for the guessed card, resulting in 24 potential outcomes - unfortunately, none of which resulted in the correctly chosen 5th card. For $2.99 I feel completely ripped off! Since the author has no intentions of giving away the secret, you're paying for something that you may or may not be able to figure out. A complete waste of money. This should be free and the secret sold for $2.99. If you want some truly good iPhone magic tricks, check out Hottrix' iBeer, iChampagne, iWater, iMunchies, iMilk or any of their other iPhone tricks. There's also Marty's Magic Coin and Marty's Magic Card. Both of those are DEFINITELY worth the $2.99 and you get the secret too!
Review by SoulGrind on Magic Trick.