Stealth Assassin Mentalist Wallet

In my opinion the Stealth Assassin mentalist wallet is one of the best products to come on the market for the mentalist in years. While there have been many wallets that are essentially "peek" wallets, this is the best. John Cornelius markets his own wallet but the peek has to be just right. The Assassin or SAW wallet beats them all. (By the way, you can get the wallet from me at Magic Etc., at $20.00 off the U.S. retail. Normally it is 189.95 and you can get a brand-new one for 169.95 plus 5.00 Priority mail. Just email me at Magicetc@comcast.net and I'll tell you how to purchase it).

Here's a clip of the creators demonstrating the wallet.



For a long time I used Richard Osterlind's Surround Slow motion center tear for an effect that I now use the wallet for. Osterlind did include virtually the same effect on his Mentalism videos (Also available from me). I published my routine in the International Brotherhood of Magicians magazine, the Linking Ring, well before the DVD's came out. It was based on a Danny Korem idea in Kaballa. Danny created a stull-less watch routine that was later duplicated by Michael Weber in Almanac, albeit with a swatch watch (Swatch this). Essentially you try to divine the time a person thinks of but you fail. You hand a watch to another spectator and he turns the hands of the analog watch (with hands) and holds the watch face down. It then matches the time thought of by the spectator.

The weak point of the effect, both in mine and osterlind's was that one has to do a center tear. Now his Slo-mo center tear is a killer. But the SAW makes this oh-so much easier. You simply have the spectator write down the time she is thinking of and put it in the wallet. You then do one of the various peeks that the wallet facilitates. But you apparently can't get it. So then you continue with the watch and a second person.

The only drawback to the SAW is its price. I grant you it is expensive, but it is worth every penny, and the high price will keep it out of the hands of the curious who would probably botch it anyway