Devious.

I really mean the Paper Crane product.

Is really good.

And lots of fun.

I picked it up when I went to Tannen's after my interview at Einstein/Beth Israel.  I asked for a trick that didn't use cards or really coins.  So they suggested several items of which I boiled down to 2 - Extreme Burn 2.0 and Devious.  Based on a coin flip, I went with Devious.  They did a demo for me, and holy Jupiter, everything was examinable.  So I picked it up, brought it home (along with Tenyo's Card Surgery - lots of problems with this one), and played around with it before I popped in the DVD.

Long story short - it's really cool and I've never added a short bottle routine to my repertoire before.  NOW I CAN AND IT IS GREAT, particularly as a transition between some coin effects, to card effects.

Of course, the key is you need a brown bottle.  Being an American who loves microbrews, I have no shortage of excellent and really cool looking bottles that perfectly fit the bill.  The spectator examines the bottle before and after the effect.

Utter class.  My best spontaneous purchase of the year.