A Very Great Deal is a feature card routine straight from Scott's real-world performing repertoire.
"A Very Great Deal by Scott Guinn IS a very great deal! This is jam-packed with fun, audience participation, and a terrific surprise ending. This is worth adding to your repertoire." - John Luka
Effect: Cody is handed the deck, which he shuffles and cuts to his heart's content. You introduce a small, sealed envelope and give it to Anna to guard. Cody selects a card. You give him the opportunity to take a different one. When he decides on a card, it is placed face down on the table in full view, without anyone having seen its identity. Next, Cody cuts a packet of any size off the deck. He is given multiple opportunities to add cards to or subtract cards from the packet. You tell him to turn over the previously selected card. It's a four, so you ask him to deal his packet into four piles. You then ask him to slide the top card off each of the packets. You remark that the four face down cards, along with the one he chose earlier, make up a poker hand, and you build up the impossibility that he could have dealt himself a great hand. He turns the four cards face up to discover that he dealt himself . . . a terrible hand. You comment on this. Then you remember that the goal of this little game wasn't to get a good poker hand - the goal was to guess what's in the envelope. Anna opens the envelope and removes its contents: Five cards from a different deck that exactly match Cody's cards!
Key Points:
- Cody throughly shuffles and cuts the cards before he takes a card or cuts off the packet.
- The envelope is given to Anna before Cody selects his card or cuts off his packet.
- Cody is given opportunities to change his mind at every step of the process - often, multiple opportunities.
- The deck is normal. No tricky cards of any kind are used.
- The routine is exceptionally easy to do, and Scott teaches an alternate method that makes it essentially sleight-free.
- The script is engaging and very funny and the impact of the effect is very strong.
This routine is a closer in one of Scott's acts. We think you'll like this one - a very great deal!
1st edition 2024, PDF 27 pages.
word count: 4247 which is equivalent to 16 standard pages of text
