iPhone/iPod Touch App Review: No Freakin’ Way

ABOUT THE APP:

Digital Magic By Professional Magician, Carl Andrews!

Performing magical card tricks is no longer reserved for the trained professional. All you need in addition to your Apple iPhone™ or Apple iPod touch® is your personal download of “No Freakin’ Way” from professional magician Carl Andrews: with this amazing app you have the opportunity to amaze, shock and surprise anyone around you with the classic “Pick a card, any card” card trick.

Traditionally, this is how the trick is performed: The magician spreads out a deck of cards face-out in his hand. He invites an unsuspecting audience member to “pick a card, any card”. The audience member picks a card, memorizes it, and gives it back to the magician, who replaces it in a “random” position in the deck. The magician of course, never sees what the card is, hence the “magic” effect when he picks the correct card back out of the deck and asks very dramatically “is this your card?”

With No Freakin’ Way you are the magician and your Apple iPhone™ or Apple iPod touch® is the deck of cards. Invite anyone and everyone to try it out and you’ll be guaranteed they will shout out “No Freakin’ Way” this is possible! But we assure you it is! Have your own audience think of a card, any card, really hard. Hand over your phone, and ask your victim to hold their finger on the screen for five seconds as the magic happens: A bit of vibration, some wonderful visuals flipping through the deck of cards, and presto, the card in question is revealed onscreen! No marked cards, no secret decks – pure magic! You don’t believe us do you? Try it out!

MY THOUGHTS:

Okay so at first I was completely confused with this App.  I think it is a fun idea, but I just didn’t understand how it worked, so I read the instructions a few times.  Finally it soaked in how to actually use the App and now I think it is fun!  It does take me awhile and I am sure once I get better, it will actually look even cooler to my friend and family, but now I am slow and trying to think about it.  The App is basically the same concept as a card trick.  For example, ask your friend to pick a card from a standard 52-card deck in their head and then you load up the App.

You then have a few screens to navigate through (which is the slow part for me) and voila your device can show the person the card they picked.  It seems amazing that it can do it, but you do have to actually input in the card, which if someone is fast enough it just seems like they are opening the App as that is what the screen looks like.  I think the fake screens are a great idea and the App is fun, but it does take a few times of reading the directions and practicing to elicit a “No Freakin’ Way” from your friend or family member!

BUY IT:  You can buy No Freakin’ Way for your iPhone or iPod Touch for $2.99 at the iTunes store.

Mama’s Money Savers Disclaimer: I received this review as a member of the Game Review Network. This review is 100% my opinion and has not been edited or reviewed by anyone. I was not compensated in any other way for this product review.