A magical prediction that will not only turn out to be correct but will also hold a final surprise!
Predictable and Unpredictable Poker is a new card magic effect in which the magician, after showing and shuffling a deck of cards, hands it to a spectator who, after cutting it into three sections, keeps the last pack for himself and, once the rest of the deck has been reassembled, returns it to the magician. The magician then takes the cards behind his back and divides them again into three piles, placing them face down on the table.
Latter takes his cards behind his back and divides them again into three piles, placing them face down on the table. The spectator first counts the cards in his pile and then, through a simple shuffling procedure that is explained to him, based on the number of his cards, completely alters their order. When he finishes, he reveals the bottom card of his own pile. All will be surprised to see that, when the magician turns over his three piles as well, they all show a card of the same rank, thus confirming the predicted four of a kind.
But the surprise will be even greater when the audience, against all expectations, realizes that the top four cards of each deck also form another unexpected poker!
Strengths:
- It's a self-working effect
- You don't need to know any manipulation techniques, just a few simple moves that will automatically achieve both of the results described
1st edition 2026, PDF 16 pages.
word count: 4187 which is equivalent to 16 standard pages of text
