Hummer's Word is a card magic effect based on a variant of the principle called CATO (Cut And Turn Over), developed by Bob Hummer. This version uses updated techniques to achieve even more surprising and unpredictable results.
For execution, the use of an alphabetical deck is recommended, in which each card represents a single letter of the alphabet. Alternatively, you can create a craft deck using business cards, blank cards or cut-out cardstock. You can also replace the alphabetical deck with classic poker cards, and perform the effect in a completely improvised way, even with a borrowed and incomplete deck.
Hummer's Word is a promise, a fully automatic effect that requires no deck preparation, no special technical knowledge or mnemonic skills. Explore the wonder of randomness using alphabet cards. Imagine shuffling a deck of thirty cards, each representing a letter of the alphabet, and subjecting them to a particular shuffle divided into different phases, during which the free choices of the spectators will be decisive.
The chances of extracting a specific combination of letters are very low; for example, for a five-letter word, the odds are about 1 in 150,000. Randomness becomes the illusionist's ally, transforming the impossible into reality.
From the thirty letters of the alphabetical deck, the performer or spectator takes the five letters that will form the word chosen for the test; There are no limits to the imagination, any word can be used. After the various stages of mixing, guaranteed by the genuineness of the spectators' free choices, the only letters extracted will form exactly the word chosen in advance, defying every law of probability and leaving the spectators in a state of pure wonder.
In addition to the main version in which the chosen word remains secret, a second version is described, in which you can start with the five letters of the chosen word that are visible. In addition, it explains how to reduce the number of letters of the word to customize the effect and two alternative final revelations.
Hummer's Word lite allows you to insert the word into the deck in a secret and completely improvised way after the deck of cards/letters has been shuffled by the viewer.
If you prefer to use a deck of poker cards instead of alphabetical cards, you can replace the word with a particular set of cards such as a royal flush, several series, or any randomly chosen sequence of cards.
It is an effect that will always amaze every type of spectator, even the performer himself, whenever the opportunity arises, and the result will be incredible!
Strong points
- A fully automatic and improvised effect
- No forcing
- No mnemonic effort
- No technical skills required
- Extreme simplicity of execution
- Maximum freedom of execution and control by the spectator
- Disruptive and extraordinary magical effect
1st edition 2025, PDF 12 pages.
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