A card is selected from your deck and placed face down on the table. You now show four cards that are clearly blank on all sides. These are placed on the table and the spectator places his hand flat on top. You wave the selection over his hand – he then lifts his hand – the packet is spread and a duplicate of his card has mysteriously appeared in the middle of the four blanks. But the image doesn’t last long and suddenly disappears leaving a totally blank card. Finally you drop the selected card onto the packet – again the spectator places his hand flat on top. This time, when he lifts...
Foreshadowed is an impromptu triple prediction that would play well for a few people or a full theater. As a bonus Yates describe another incredible prediction that can be done over the phone.
Jack Yates really needs no introduction; his name usually comes up wherever subtle magic is discussed. He tends to produce devious principles, then simplifies them down so anyone can use them. Foreshadowed is an interesting twist (literally!) on the well-known three objects prediction (a la Mental Epic). What makes this version different is that the predictions are written on blank pieces of cardboard...
A compilation of four of my gimmicked decks that I use constantly in both professional and casual performances.
Serendipity Deck: (From the No Briefcase Act) Any named card is predicted using the two Jokers from the deck. A dynamic and entertaining approach to predicting any freely named card.
Smile Deck: (From the Motivational Mentalism Act) The named card is the only one with a smiley face in an otherwise blank-backed deck. No roughing spray, no thin cards.
Telepathic Deck: Your participant merely thinks of any card, and you instantly know it. A forgotten classic reimagined through...
Paul's Number Deck - The one that got away! A few decades ago, when still dealing, Paul planned on printing up his own number decks that would be blank-backed, numbered from 1 - 50, and have a few special cards. The deck would have come with eight ideas. These are those ideas. Obtain yourself a double blank deck and a Sharpie and create your own number deck to do these routines.
All Squared
Medalystic
Your Lucky Number
Multi Numbers Gag Card
Multi Number Card Mark Two
Dual Outcome
Some Unlucky Soul: A spirit writes the total of two selections on another card.
PSYCHOGRAPHY: Before you begin, you remove a card from the deck and, without showing its face, you place it between a spectator's hands. This, you state, is a sprit photograph that has yet to be taken. You now allow another spectator a free choice of any card in the deck and have him sign his name across the face. This card is lost into the middle of the deck which you then give to a spectator. You now remove two cards from your pocket - these two cards have completely blank faces - these, you state, are the photographic...
An effect by Paul Gordon performed by Aldo Colombini. You show some Jokers. The backs of the cards are red. One Joker with a big X on its back is placed among the cards and now all the cards have a big X on their backs. One card with a big O on its back is placed among the cards and now all the cards have big O’s on their backs. Finally, the cards are all back to normal. The big surprise comes when five cards are turned over and a letter appears on each card spelling the word MAGIC (or any other message, a Royal Flush, etc).
THREE-WAY GEMINI: Mates to three selected cards are located by the spectators themselves. The routine is totally impromptu.
THE SPECTATOR'S ROYAL MARRIAGES I: A spectator cuts to four cards. He then cuts the deck into four piles.. His four cards and the top card of each pile reveal four Royal Marriages (Queens and Kings).
DOUBLE DUKE: A stunning poker demonstration from a deck shuffled by a spectator where at the end you reveal a straight flush.
NO-CLUE ELIMINATOR: Two principles combine to reveal a selected card. Another great impromptu...
Three packets of cards are introduced. Three spectators each select a card from the packets and these cards are seen to be the only cards with DIFFERENT COLORED BACKS!
Several famous performers have contributed to create a high standard product with strong effects and routines.
Contents:
PERSONALITY TEST (Ken de Courcy): You show a chart with ESP symbols. A spectator names his (or her) month of birth and on the same chart the symbol that corresponds to the month is selected. You predicted that symbol.
STRICTLY STRAIGHT ESP (Aldo Colombini): A spectator (or more) picks five cards each time forming four packets of five cards each. Each group contains the five ESP symbols.
ESP ASSOCIATES (Peter Duffie): A spectator deals two packets of cards at random and finds two matching...
This effect is a variation of an effect called ACAT (Any Card At Any Time), extracted from CLUE ebook. It can be presented with playing cards, or special cards (like the Vernet PSImbol deck, or movies (like Directors's cut or Screen test), French postcards, etc.), or just with blank index cards or your own business cards (with drawings,
symbols, words, numbers, etc. on the back). It is not a card trick, but rather a mystery or paradox.
It is hands-off, automatic, self-working, can be done over the phone or sight unseen, stand up, close up or stage (with jumbo cards). It is easy, practical, and...
Also included you'll find 16 QR Codes with links to video footage, a secret website full of all kinds of goodies and downloads, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Plus, you'll get full access to 4 custom web apps that allow you to generate your own Binary Sorting (i.e., "Magic Age") cards with your own custom words.
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Foxy Spirits
The spectator chooses one of many questions written on a piece of paper and places it into a small box. Upon summoning...
This is a revised version of the classic Parade Of The Kings packet trick from the 1970s.
Four blue-backed cards are counted face down and the performer explains that these are the four Kings. Two spectators between them decide on one of the Kings. Immediately the magician spreads the cards to reveal the chosen King has now magically turned face up.
But there is a further surprise when the back of this King is shown to have also now changed to red.
Then there is a final kicker when the other three face-down Kings are turned face up to reveal they are in fact three blank-faced cards...
Effect: A letter card, which appears to be a mistake, is placed on the table without explanation. The spectator sees 32 different lettered cards. The cards are shuffled. The spectator freely selects four cards and arranges them to form a word. The mistake card is turned over - it matches the spectator's word!
A "mistake" that turns into a miracle!
Imagine placing a single card on the table - a card that appears to be nothing more than a scribbled mistake. You then introduce a deck of 32 lettered cards. Your spectator sees that the cards are all different and is even allowed to shuffle...
HAMMAN OUT-SEXED (Alex East): A 'sexy' version of the classic Hamman's 'Two-Card Trick' that uses, of course, only two cards.
WOW (Tim Gan): The Ace of the same suit of a selected card turns over and then it changes place with the selection.
WEIRD (Stephen Tucker): A great comedy mentalism effect where you predict how many fingers a spectator selects by revealing....plastic fingers in a box.
TWISTED NERVE (Al Smith): An extended version of the classic Vernon's 'Twisting The Aces' where a lot of magic happens.
THE BACK IS GONE (David Robertson): A unique entertaining way of revealing a selected...
AI here does not stand for Artificial Intelligence. It is the key to the method used in the routine.
It is a self-working effect based on a classic principle wherein a participant freely chooses any USA State name and the performer is able to reveal the same.
This routine uses double-blank business cards. There is a one-time preparation and a 3-second setup is required before each performance.
You can use the underlying principle not only for the USA States theme but also for myriad other themes and premises.
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