A spectator freely selects a card and loses it into the middle of the deck. The magician claims he only needs three chances to cut to the selection, but all three cards cut to are misses. In the end, the combined values of those three cards reveal the exact position of the spectator’s selection.
Performance transcript:
- Shuffle the deck.
- Then place the deck on the table and have the spectator cut off about one-third.
- Remember the bottom card of the cut packet.
- Then cut another packet and bury the card into the deck.
- Just to be clear, there's no force and no crimp involved.
- The spectator can cut anywhere.
- Now I'm going to find the spectator's card.
- Give me three chances, and I'll cut directly to it.
- Here's the first try.
- Is the 7 of Diamonds your card?—The spectator says no.
- That's fine; I still have two chances left.
- Second try — the 6 of Diamonds: Still not the selection.
- The last attempt has to work.
- The 3 of Clubs that should be it, right?
- I didn't actually find the spectator's card.
- But these three random cards I cut to might be telling me something.
- 7+6=13, and 13+3=16.
- Maybe that tells me the position of the selection.
- Count down to the 16th card, and it's the spectator's 3 of Clubs.
1st edition 2026, video 6:51.
