Gotcha!: 18 Amazing Ways to Freak Out Your Friends Review

Official Review

October 12th, 2009 8:31am Rating:

Reviewed by Bryce Kuhlman

David Acer was an official reviewer for MyLovelyAssistant for many years. Shortly before he decided to retire from the reviewing business, he sent me a copy of this book. First, you should know that this is a mass-market children's book. You're probably not going to find a copy at your magic dealer. But you can find it on Amazon, where it has a 5-star rating. The premise is something near and dear to me: mysteries. I'm talking BIG mysteries like Big Foot, UFOs and zombies. And the best part... this book teaches you how to recreate these ancient mysteries for the sole purpose of freaking out your friends. The book took less than ten minutes to read, cover-to-cover. It was entertaining, informative and fun. The tricks are obviously simple. Maybe the magic dealers should carry this. It might teach magicians how to create a great story around a simple trick.

Product info for Gotcha!: 18 Amazing Ways to Freak Out Your Friends

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A book full of knowledge and know-how, Gotcha! demystifies some age-old mysteries and shows kids that it's easy to be a master of illusion. Doubting Dave and the Mystery Hunters take readers behind the scenes of the world's oldest and coolest mysteries. Then they show kids how to re-create those mysteries to fool their friends. This interactive book is also full of interesting and bizarre background information on each mystery.
With step-by-step instructions, easy-to-find materials (and sometimes no materials at all) kids can:
- Hypnotize a friend
- Turn a pencil into gold
- Test their house for ghosts
- Make Bigfoot prints
- Make a fake UFO photo and video
- Make their own lake monster video