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Mental Snapshot
Vincent Gagnieux
Imagine the scene. A candlelit room. Some people are dressed in black. Others are dressed in red. A spectator takes the twelve face cards from the deck and thoroughly shuffles them. You get a quick glimpse at the cards, taking a mental snapshot of the scene. The cards are then turned face down and laid out in a row. The candlelight fades. In the darkness, people begin to stir.
One by one, the spectator exchanges any card freely with an adjacent neighbor, repeating this again and again. Everything has changed.
And yet… somehow, your mental snapshot still tells the whole story. When...
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Across the Bridge
Vincent Gagnieux
Face a deadly challenge.
In front of you lies a high bridge made of eight pairs of cards, reminiscent of the perilous glass bridge from the popular TV show "The Squid Game". Each pair has one red card (safe, tempered glass) and one black card (dangerous, regular glass). A misstep onto a black card means instant failure. No second chance. The odds of crossing the bridge safely are slim—less than 0.4% chance of success. But you’re not going to let chance decide your fate!
During the preparation, the participant checked each pair to ensure it included one red card and one black card....
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Machine Learning
Vincent Gagnieux
Experience the fascinating blend of artificial intelligence and card magic with this intriguing routine. Watch as seemingly random guesses transform into astonishingly accurate predictions of card suits.
Imagine a spectator freely selects ten cards for an experiment. In the training phase, you boldly attempt to predict the suits of these cards using mere chance or intuition - your model's default policy. Initially, your guesses mostly miss the mark, but each miss serves as crucial data for refining your approach.
Next, armed with insights gained from the training, you meticulously adjust...
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Twin Work
Vincent Gagnieux
A bunch of cards are removed from the deck after a few shuffles. The participant looks at them and freely selects one. All the cards are then mixed in a messy pile and "wash-shuffled".
Under these impossible conditions, you reach into the pile and dig out a single card: the mate of the participant's card.
- No memory work
- No marked cards
- An alternative ending is explained
1st edition 2024, PDF 7 pages.
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Drops of God
Vincent Gagnieux
Can you recognize a wine just by its smell? Can you do it blindfolded? Can you do it without wine?
You write on three billets the name of your favorite wines (let's say for example "Gevrey-Chambertin", "Pommard", "Saint-Emilion") and display them in front of your participant. As you turn your back, you ask the participant to switch two of the "wines". And two more. It can be any two. And again, and again and again...When the participant is convinced that the wines are properly mixed, you face him, blindfolded, and ask him to hand you the "wines" one by one. You're then able to recognize...
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Russian Roulette
Vincent Gagnieux
EFFECT
One bullet. Six chambers. One Ace of Spades. Six positions among five red cards. You give the cards to the participant for examination. The participant secretly inserts the "bullet" into one of the six chambers and hands you back the "gun".
The cards lie on your wide-open hand, you don't even look at them. You look at the participant. He knows where the bullet is. As you deal the first card face up, you say: "clic". The card is red. Empty chamber.
You keep looking at your participant. How does he feel about the next one? You deal the next one face up. Red card, empty chamber....
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