After the spectator's selection is lost in the cards (it really is), the spectator imagines (as if in a dream) his card in various scenarios (e.g., as a mirage in the desert, as a reflection in a mirror, on top of Mount Everest, etc.).
Neither the selection nor the scenarios could be known to the magician using his five senses. And the magician could not know where in the cards the selection might reside.
Using his sixth sense, the magician reads the spectator's mind and identifies each scenario the spectator has thought of.
But the chosen card's identity and its location are still unknown until, using a magic word freely selected by the spectator (e.g., "Alakazam"), the magician spells down and on the last letter the spectator's card is found!
Use any deck. No memorization. No math. Essentially self-working. No stack required. Nothing is written down. A unique effect and method to vanquish any attempt by anyone to detect the secret.
$10 and worth four times as much in currencies undergoing sky-high inflation.
1st edition 2025, PDF 14 pages.
word count: 3992 which is equivalent to 15 standard pages of text