A spectator freely selects a card, freely cuts the deck to determine a number, and divides the deck into four packets. After multiple rounds of reassembling and cutting, the selection still arrives at the exact corresponding number.
A self-working, fooling card routine.
Performance transcript:
- This is a completely impromptu effect.
- You can even borrow a deck from a spectator.
- No setup or stack is required to begin.
- Have the spectator cut roughly half the deck.
- Ask them to secretly count how many cards they cut.
- 22 cards.
- Since I don't have a spectator here, I have to count them myself.
- In performance, the spectator secretly counts the cards themselves.
- Make sure they remember the number.
- Place the rest of the deck back on top.
- Then have the spectator freely cut the deck into four packets.
- This step is done entirely by the spectator.
- These two middle packets are random cut points, with no key card involved.
- Ask the spectator to remember the card they cut to.
- Then add the center portion from another packet onto it.
- Let the spectator cut the cards freely again. This is done by the spectator.
- Have them pick up another packet and place it onto any cut point they choose.
- They can continue cutting the deck freely.
- Finally, assemble all the packets onto the remaining stack.
- The spectator has freely cut to a card.
- And at the start they also cut a random number of cards.
- Throughout the entire process, I never knew the number or the card.
- Now ask the spectator what number they counted earlier.
- They say 22.
- We count down 22 cards.
- This is the 22nd card.
- It's exactly the Eight of Clubs the spectator freely remembered at the beginning.
1st edition 2026, video 6:26.
