"You can fool ALL the people SOME of the time,
and you can fool SOME of the people ALL of the time,
but you can't fool ALL of the people ALL of the time."
- Abraham Lincoln
FAVORITE CARD TRICKS:
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"You can fool ALL the people SOME of the
time,
and you can fool SOME of the people ALL of the time,
but you can't fool ALL of the people ALL of the time."
- Abraham Lincoln
FAVORITE CARD TRICKS:
1. PILLOW-CASE TRICK
2. GUESS TOP CARD in MULTIPLE PILES
3. CARD on CEILING
4. DISAPPEARING CARD.
5. FACE-CARD ESP
6. THREE-CARD MONTE... or TWO-CARD...
7. TWISTED SISTERS
8. "CARD MIRACLE" -->>
SHUFFLED BEHIND BACK, EYES CLOSED, CARD SECRETLY
CHOSEN, THEN WITH PRAYER TO GOD TO PERFORM A MIRACLE AND REVEAL THE CHOSEN CARD,
THE UNKNOWN CHOSEN CARD SUDDENLY APPEARS IN OTHER DECK, UPSIDE DOWN, AND WITH DIFFERENT
COLOR BACK!!! ... and even the magician appears astonished!!!
9. Favorite Trick Decks = Stripper Deck... Invisible Deck... Brain Wave
Deck... Cheek-to-Cheek Deck... Svengali Deck... and Twisted Sisters
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1.) PILLOW-CASE TRICK. One person selects a card, unseen to the
magician, and shows it to everybody in the room... then it is placed on
the middle of the table... then the other 51 cards are divided into a little
pile for everyone in the room to hold (2 or 3 people are enough)... One by one
they give their piles to the magician, who places them into the pillow case...
the selected card is handed (face down) to the magician, who also places it into
the pillow case, and finally the rest of the cards are handed face down and they are ALL placed into the pillow case, and the magician shakes it up...
Make sure everyone sees that you cannot see the card, and that it is face
down. When the magician puts the selected card in by itself, he
gently BENDS the corner... Then shake em all up... shake em real good... and
then pull em out of the pillow case... they'll look all mixed up...
in rearranging them, you will easily come to the bent card, which you quickly
place face down on the BOTTOM of the pile,... you put all the cards
face down, and SHUFFLE the deck, but make sure the bottom card stays on the
BOTTOM. You can shuffle from one to ten times, and just make sure
the bottom card stays on the bottom. Then do a hand-to-hand shuffle,
bringing the BOTTOM card to the TOP. If you do this right, it looks
like those cards are so thoroughly mixed up, it could ONLY be by luck that the
top card is the selected card!!! You have to do this quickly for the
best shocking effect, otherwise the longer time you take, the more it looks
like you're trying to manipulate something.... The whole trick is to make
it look like you're doing everything to mix up the cards and then shuffle
them... just do it quickly, shuffle several times, but rapidly come to the
end... Viewers will say it's impossible, unless they know your trick.
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#2) Guess the top card, 3 piles...
You can do 2 piles, or 10 piles,
it makes no difference. You shuffle the cards, as in number one
above... When you split the deck before a RUFFLE, you can usually see at
least one bottom card of the two piles you make. That's the
bottom card... Somebody else can shuffle the deck before you, but you the
cut the deck and make a ruffle-shuffle or two, keeping track of the bottom
card. The reverse-shuffle, from bottom to top, using right hand to
throw cards into the left hand., About 5-10 cards at a time slide
off the top of the sending hand, while those top cards then become the bottom
bunch in the other hand. Finally the last card (from the BOTTOM of
the deck) is tossed into the receiving hand, and of course lands on the TOP of
the deck. So that's how you get a card from the bottom of the deck
to the top. Then, you know which card is on the TOP of the
deck. You ask anyone in the audience to make 2, or 3, or 4, or 5
piles (not more, but actually i think 3 piles works the best magic).
More than 3 gets confusing, while less than 3 makes it too simple and almost not
a "trick"... I use 3 piles. You know which card is
on the top of one of the piles (which was the top card of the deck, which was
previously on the bottom of the deck). You START GUESSING with
either of the other two piles. Now always take your time, like at least 2
or 3 seconds per pile, then GUESS the card, and THEN lift it up (for your eyes
only), and say to yourself "correct" and then place the card down
where no one can see it... You start with one of the unknown cards, but
you GUESS IT AS the one and only card you know (the card that was on the bottom,
which you shuffled to the top, and IS, IN FACT one of the three cards you're
trying to guess. So you guess the card you know, you turn over
the unknown, ands now you know ANOTHER ONE... So when you guess the NEXT
card, you say it was the one you SAW on the previous
"GUESS." Finally, you name the the last card from your
private viewing of the previous "guess." You have lifted the
three top cards off the tops of 3 piles. Hold the cards tight, and
when you release them, make sure they are in the ORDER you picked them...
To do that most surreptitiously, you only need to slip the LAST card you picked
(which was the one on the bottom of the deck, you brought to the top), which
you NAMED after FIRST card you picked... so instead of slipping it in behind
#1, and #2, you have to slip it in in FRONT OF #1 an d #2... that's why i say
hold the cards tight... Viewers who don't know how you do this trick are AMAZED
that you can shuffle the cards, the divide into 3 even piles, and you can
quickly and easily guess the top card on each pile... But you have to make it
LOOK like you're thinking when you guess, although there's NO GUESSWORK; it's
all a "trick"...
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#3) Card on ceiling. i did this once for one of my kids.
right before i did the trick i took the card (in this case an 8 of hearts, it
was my daughter's 8th birthday)... i got another matching deck, and put
the 8 of hearts on the ceiling, using a little saliva... also a tiny bit of wax
glue would also work... The kids come around, the birthday girl (my
daughter, my shill) picks "ANY" card (yeah right!)... she picks the 8
of hearts (she's part of the "trick")... I ask her to show it to
everybody in the room... She does... Then the card is placed back in the
deck, shuffled real good, and then the deck is suddenly THROWN UP into the air,
to hit the ceiling, and all the cards come falling down... Except one, that
stuck on the ceiling... I ask the kids: Is that the
card? They are stunned...
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#4) DISAPPEARING CARD... pick a card, any card... Magician
turns his back to everyone "SO HE CAN'T SEE" (this is all smoke and
mirrors, because while he turns his back so he can't see, he cuts the deck in
half, and spreads saliva from his longest finger onto the top card of the bottom
pile. He asks if you're ready, he turns around and says put the card
BACK IN THE DECK, and just opens the salivated opening a little bit, quickly
and firmly pressing the cards together, after aligning all 4 sides... The 2 cards are
now as though glued together... Magician shuffles the deck
loosely several times... Then goes through the deck, trying to guess the
card... He turns the cards over one-by-one, quickly, and keeps telling the
audience NOT to say anything if they SEE their card, which they WON'T see...
Keep telling the audience: "Don't say anything if you see you're card." They'll
NEVER see their card... You turn over all 52 cards quickly, one-by-one... it's not
there... we do it again, shuffle em this time... still not there... try
again... shuffle again... still not there... It'll stay stuck with
one
good dose of saliva all across the back of the card you lay it onto...
(Best to use a brand-new deck). Eventually you can feel the card yourself, and place it on the BOTTOM of the
deck, and then SHUFFLE the bottom card to the top (as previously described
how)... and voila: the card that nobody could find is SUDDENLY the top
card... (Or you can find the card with your hands behind your
back...) Lots of variations.
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#5). Face Card ESP... Select 16 face cards from deck, using K, Q, J,
and Ace of all suits, divided into 2 equal piles in colors and suits and
denomination... TRICK: Show 8 of these, and ask one participant (only at a time) to mentally select a
card (and whisper it to everybody in the room)... The other 8 face cards are already in your shirt pocket,
unbeknownst to the participant... After the participant mentally
selects his or her card, you place the 8 cards into your shirt pocket while you
try to "guess" the card, using ESP... A small business card in your
pocket, separates the 2 sets of cards... You think for about 10 or 15 seconds,
then you pull out the 8 cards (looking into your shirt pocket, one at a time,
saying "This isn't it, i know that..." "This one also
isn't the one..." "I'm pretty sure it's not this one
either." "And it's not this one
either..." Or you can show them, one by one, saying "It's
not this one... it's not this one... it's not this one..." They'll ask you to do it again. Choose a
different participant... Put the 8 face cards back into your pocket, and pull
out the original 8 again, not showing them... but shuffle them for about a
minute to confuse the participant before showing them again... Sure enough, the
original card that was selected is there... and do it the same way... but don't
do this trick too many times in a row, or else someone will notice that the 8 cards are different than the
8 you show originally... Just do it once or twice per participant... any
more than this, and you're likely to give away the trick...
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#6). THREE-CARD MONTE, or TWO-CARD...
Use 3 cards -- two Queen of Hearts (or 2 red Queens, or 2 red deuces) and an Ace
of Spades... As you mix em up, you say: "Case it...
Chase it... Find out where i place it... Black card you win... Red one you
lose... Pick any one you choose." Takes a little
skill to learn to throw top card of 2 held in hand... Bend cards in center a
little, along long side... i pick up and hold with just 2 or 3 fingers... I had
to practice this 100's of times before getting right...
Now for 2-card Monte... After doing same trick with 2 Ace of Hearts, take same
two Ace of Hearts and mix together with Ace of Diamonds in middle... same
concept, except just 2 cards... I like to show 2 Ace of Hearts at bottom
of deck after i do 3-card Monte... (behind one of the Ace of Hearts is an
Ace of Diamonds, so the diamond is in middle)... Trick goes like this -- take
from bottom of deck the 2 cards you just showed, 2 Ace of Hearts, but actually
it's an Ace of Diamonds and an Ace of Hearts... Now show Ace of Hearts
twice... using one diamond and one heart... show it again... same 2 hearts...
show it again, same 2 hearts... Do it again, so the viewers are convinced
they've seen 2 Ace of Hearts, which they saw just moments ago, on the bottom of
the deck, after you did the last trick with 2 Ace of Hearts... Now, after
showing 2 Ace of Hearts, pick em up in reverse order, so Ace of Diamonds is on
bottom, and put em up your sleeve !!! especially if you have a loose
fitting sleeve... Now remove same two cards, and hold arm down and shake your
sleeve, so it's obvious any loose cards would fall out... (This is all
"Smoke and Mirrors")... Now show 2 Ace of Diamonds... Easy to reverse
again (back into sleeve) and then 2 Ace of Hearts...
Variation on same: With Three-Card Monte (black ace and 2 queen of
hearts), you can easily show 3 queen of hearts, or 3 ace of spades, or 2 ace of
spades and one queen of hearts.. Actually, you have only Ace of Spades and 2
queen of hearts, but by knowing where the Ace of Spades is, you can either
show it or not, at will, at any time you want... This can be very confusing
to viewers, who don't know how you do this trick, but do NOT do this trick
more than 2 or 3 times in a row to any one person, or they're likely to
figure out what you're doing... Putting the cards up the sleeves adds
a new twist, because most magicians are accused of having extra cards up their
sleeves... I invented this trick with just 2 cards... it's quick and
easy... especially if you're at the end of a bar... (right side of bar for
right-handed person)... Two Ace of Hearts... then suddenly, same 2 cards
become 2 ace of diamonds...
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#7. "TWISTED SISTERS" -- This is a card illusion, invented by David Blaine... What i've done to improve it, is to use 16 cards, instead of just 8 cards... At the beginning, i explain that i have 16 Queens, which i lay face down in 4 piles... Four red-backed Queens (upper left), four blue-backed Queens (upper right), and then 4 more blue-backed Queens (lower left), and 4 red-backed Queens (lower right). Using the Elmsley Count, i slowly and deliberately count the real red-backed Queens, "one, two, three, four" and then spread them out, face-up, showing all 4 Queens (hearts, spades, diamonds, and clubs)... I do the same slow and deliberate count for the adjoining pile of blue-backed Queens, "one two, three, four" and then spread them out, face-up, showing 4 Queens of all 4 suits... This is all mis-direction, to reinforce the belief that the 2 other piles are also Queens (which i say they are)... Then, i do the same Elmsley Count on the other 2 piles, but i do NOT turn them over face-up... I ask the spectator to think of one red Queen (hearts or diamonds) and one black Queen (spades or clubs), which they then name out loud..., and then, i explain that i am going to make the two Queens (one red queen, and one black queen -- which they named) to flip over, face-up, and also at the same time, make them switch piles... I explain that i will make the named red Queen jump from the other pile to this pile, and the named black Queen jump from this pile to the other pile (make sure you know which piles are which), and also BOTH Queens will get flipped over at the same time... Instead of asking for the magic word, i say a devout prayer, asking for this miracle, and voila... (I think it's best, at the end, NOT to show that the other cards are jokers)... You can find "Twisted Sisters" online... You need to order the special deck...
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#8). "CARD MIRACLE" --
my BEST trick of all...
In my newest card "trick," which i sort of invented by combining two other tricks into one, this is what APPEARS to happen >>>
Before i start this trick, i usually do a quick "shuffling" routine with my
"Electric Deck," while i ask: "Would you like to see some card magic?"
If they say "yes," i remove 2 other decks from my pocket, in their
respective boxes... One box of cards is red, and the other box is blue...
They both have rubber bands around them... I
ask the spectator to choose whichever box he or she wants (red or blue box)...
It doesn't make any difference which deck they choose, although it makes it
appear to them that they had some choice in the matter.
Depending on which deck they choose, you tell them either that their
selected card will appear in THAT deck, or that you will let them secretly
select any card from THAT (the other) deck...
First, i
tell people this is no "trick" and it's not "magic"
-- it's a "miracle"...
I tell the
audience that i'm NOT using marked cards, and i explain how to tell if a
deck of cards is marked... but i also add that it makes no difference, even
if the deck WERE marked (which it isn't), because i'm going to do this
with
my eyes closed, and shuffle the deck behind my back, with my eyes closed,
and i'll never even look at the chosen card -- front or back...
So then i begin to shuffle the cards behind my back, and keep doing
this, while i turn around, so the cards are facing the audience, and they
can see me shuffling them behind my back... I turn the cards over once or twice, and keep
"shuffling" them, and i point out how well i'm "mixing" them,
right in front
of their face...
I ask them to cut the cards once... or twice... and to do
so, i whiffle the cards slowly, and a spectator from the audience can stick
his or her finger into the deck as i whiffle, anywhere they want... I
ask them if they want to do it (cut the cards) again... After
they have had a chance to cut the cards once or twice or three times, i tell them to watch
my face, as i have my eyes closed, head pointed in one direction (with eyes
closed), while i lift the cards over my head with the opposite hand... and then
i hold the mixed deck above my head,
with my eyes closed, and spectators can see all the cards, and
then any one person secretly selects any one card of their choice --
it's all done with my eyes closed, cards held above my head, after
i shuffled them behind my back... I tell them there is no way i can possibly know
which card is selected...
I instruct them to select their card by pulling it up halfway, and then i ask them (with my eyes
closed, cards above my head) "Is THIS the card you selected?"
"Are you sure THIS is the one you want?" "Did
i force you to choose THIS card?" Then i tell them to
take it out of the deck, and don't let me see it, neither front or back...
Then, I take the other (different-color) deck out of its box (which has been in plain view all along, with 2 rubber bands around it, in 2 directions), but this other deck has a different color on its back... I hold the deck facing down...
Instead of asking for the magic word, i say a devout prayer (in English and Hebrew), asking God to perform a MIRACLE and REVEAL the chosen card, because there is no way in the world that i could possibly know the chosen card, since the other deck was shuffled behind my back, and i had my eyes closed the whole time ... I even ask that the selected card stay completely hidden from me the whole time, so i cannot see its front or back...
As i say the Hebrew prayer ("Baruch
atoh adonai, elohaynu melech
ho'olam, mi oseh nesim," and translate it: "Blessed
art Thou, oh Lord our God, King of the Universe, Who makes Miracles"),
I spread the other deck face down... This is the other deck, which has a
different color on its back, and which had the rubber bands around it, and
was in plain view, during the entire time...
I also ask Jesus for a MIRACLE -- to REVEAL the
secretly chosen card... and as I spread the cards
FACING DOWN, suddenly only one card appears FACE
UP -- which is, of course, the secretly chosen
card, which i couldn't possibly know ...
At this point, even i ask quizzically: "Is THAT your
card??... Really?!!??"
... and even i act totally astonished ...
Then i note that this MUST REALLY be a MIRACLE -- because, when the spectator pulls out the ONLY FACE-UP card (to compare it with the one they secretly selected from the other deck), they discover that it also has a different color on its back!!!
That "trick"
came to me in a sudden brainstorm about 2 months ago, while i was sitting on
a beach in Florida.
Now, here's how i do it >>>
The first card selected is known by the magician -- due to a trick called "mind-reading with cards"... and then, with the other deck (an " Brainwave Deck" (or "Invisible Deck" slightly different effect -- i prefer the "Brainwave Deck" which you can get from www.PenguinMagic.com -- about $10...
You show that only one card has been turned upside down (if "Invisible Deck"), or one card is facing up, when all others are facing down ("Brainwave Deck")... If using an "Invisible Deck," when they pull it out, it matches the one they selected... In the "Brainwave Deck" (which i prefer), they see it immediately (face up) matching the one they selected (and ALSO, only with the "Brainwave Deck," it also has a different color on its back).
I wrote the following explanation, mainly for using the "Invisible Deck" as part two of this same trick, but actually, since i originally wrote this, i decided i like the "Brainwave Deck" better (for this trick)... It's easier, and the spectator sees their card (facing up) immediately, and also in the "Brainwave Deck," it has a different color on its back.
You have to know your cards, and the 2 separate "algorythms" for the Mind-Reading trick, and also for the Invisible Deck, (but NOT for the Brainwave Deck)..
For example, after the first card is selected, i cut the deck, and while i put the rest of the deck back into the box, i notice the bottom card, which, after the cut, was the card right above the selected card...
So let's say, randomly, that this bottom card is the King of Hearts... Then you know that the selected card was the 3 of Spades (using CHaSeD )... CHaSeD = Clubs, Hearts, Spades, Diamonds, in that order... and every succeeding card is arranged 3 numerals higher...
So if the top card (deck facing up) is Ace of Clubs, the next card is the 4 of Hearts, and next card is 7 of Spades...
You need to pre-arrange the first deck in this order, and when you show it, it looks totally mixed up, and you can cut it as often as you like, as fast as you like, and the spectator can also do the same, endlessly, and it NEVER changes the order!!!!
When you are "shuffling" and "mixing" the cards behind your back (with your eyes closed), you are actually doing neither... you are only "cutting" them, over and over and over... but you must tell the spectator that you are "shuffling" and "mixing" them, which is what it APPEARS to the spectator, who is standing just a foot away (turn your back so the spectator can see exactly what you're doing, but MIS-DIRECT them with your words...
It's easy to memorize: CHaSeD... Clubs, Hearts, Spades Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts, Spades, Diamonds... CHaSeD...
Remember to SAY that you are "shuffling" the deck, behind your back, with your eyes closed, but you're NOT really "shuffling" -- although that's what i SAY i'm doing... All i'm really doing is "cutting" the deck, over and over again...
But you have to be good at "lying" in card tricks like this, which is actually known as "MIS-DIRECTION."
You ask the spectator to pull up the selected card HALF-WAY -- that's so you know exactly where it is located -- and then, ask him or her: "Is THIS the card you want??? ... Are you sure??" When the spectator says "Yes," you ask the spectator to THEN remove the card (and to show it to everyone else), but to NOT let you see it, front or back... and to hide it from your view...
Now you know exactly WHERE the selected card came from, with your two hands holding the deck above your head (with your eyes closed)... At this point you quickly cut the deck, before putting it back into the box (with your eyes closed)... A cut is simply putting the top of the pile on the bottom, or the bottom on the top.
What you do is you place the top cut onto the bottom of the deck, or front of the deck on the back... and as you put the deck back in the box, you quickly open your eyes, just for a second, and look at the bottom card ...
I usually fumble around (intentionally, with my eyes closed), looking for the box, which gives me a reason to open my eyes, just for a second -- to look for the box -- and that lets me read the bottom card -- and then i quickly close my eyes again, as i pick up the box and insert the deck back into the box (with my eyes closed)... and i reiterate that i've had my eyes closed the whole time, and i have absolutely no way of knowing what the selected card is... (This again is more "mis-direction.")
I intentionally remind the audience that my eyes have been closed the ENTIRE time, so there is NO WAY i could possibly know which card was selected ... I remind them again, that i shuffled and mixed the cards behind my back, and i did it all with my eyes closed...
... and that is some major MIS-DIRECTION... Say it slowly, like you mean it, like it's the truth... because that's EXACTLY what APPEARS (to the audience) to be happening... So when you tell them exactly what they appear to be seeing, it reinforces the ILLUSION...
In case the spectator selects either the top or bottom card (the card at EITHER END of the deck), then (in that case only) you do NOT cut the deck -- but you still look at the bottom card, as the key card to determine the selected card...
Assume you saw the bottom card was the King of Hearts... so therefore, you know the selected card was the 3 of Spades (using CHaSeD), you then slowly say the magic words over the other deck, ("abracadbra" or "please and thank you," with your eyes closed -- but now i use the Hebrew prayer instead of the Magic Word (see above), while i figure out what the card is, and thus what card to look for in the other deck (which has been in plain view all this time with a double rubber-band around it)...
In the other deck, if using an "Invisible Deck" -- which you can make from any regular deck simply by spraying the backs with "roughing fluid" (which is also available from www.PenguinMagic.com), you know that underneath the 3 of Spades is the 10 of Hearts... (because Spades matches Hearts, and vice versa, and 13 minus 3 is 10)...
Like i said, I now prefer to use a "Brainwave Deck" for this trick, instead of the "Invisible Deck" -- as the "Brainwave Deck " is easier, and actually more effective, and it is also more amazing, because the chosen card -- which the magician couldn't possibly know -- suddenly appears facing up (when all other cards are facing down), and when removed, it also has a different color on its back...
So (using an "Invisible
Deck" -- which is sort of the reverse of a "Brainwave
Deck"), you take out the other deck, removing it from the box
-- with the even numbers facing up (you'll know which side is odd, and
which side is even, according to the outside of the box -- and
same with the " Brainwave Deck" -- you'll know by
the front of the box which side is hearts and diamonds, and which
side is spades and clubs)... I arrange it so if the chjosen card
is a red one, i pull the cards out of the box with the Red heart on the
box facing up... (You'll understand the need for this, when you get the
Brainwave Deck, which is actually made from 26 cards -- spades and clubs
-- with a blue back, and 26 cards -- hearts and diamonds -- with a red
back)...
On the other hand, if using an "Invisible Deck", you'll see all the even-numbered cards of every suit, although
it appears like the whole deck
is being fanned, because there are all sorts of numbers,
different colors, and picture cards, all mixed together...
You fan the cards to the 10 of Hearts, when you shove sideways its mirror card, or attached card... and you note that "only one card in the whole deck is facing down."
Originally, i explained that i had already arranged it like this, "because i'm psychic," and knew ahead of time that it would be the card they selected from the other deck... Now, instead, i say a PRAYER before fanning the cards, and i ask God for a MIRACLE, which is what it appears to be... (This is even yet more "misdirection" -- ion the form of a prayer).
Ask the spectator to remove that one card that's facing down, and sure enough, it's the exact same card he or she selected from the other deck... (That's if you're using an Invisible Deck, but in the Brainwave Deck, the selected card (from the first deck) will appear facing UP, when all the others are facing down...
If you need to order
an "Invisible Deck," or a "Brainwave Deck,"
go to
www.PenguinMagic.com
... and search for "Invisible Deck." Or just buy a
can of "Roughing fluid" from Penguin, which will do the same for several
decks, for about the same price... about $5, maybe a little more...
Using "Roughing Fluid," you can do this trick using any regular deck
of cards... I always tell people that i got "ALL my cards for
this trick" from Walmart (which is true, if you use Roughing
Fluid on them)... I don't say "both decks," but instead i
say "ALL my cards" -- because the 52-card "
Brainwave Deck" alone requires 2 decks of
different colors, just to make one
deck... However, an "Invisible Deck" can be made from
just one deck...
But
please do NOT
tell anyone how to do this... As i
said, i myself sort of "invented" this new
combination of these two tricks into one, and it's my best and favorite
trick, which i say is a "MIRACLE" (since i invoke the assistance of God,
through prayer)...
Everybody who sees it is stunned... because
it seems
impossible, but is really very very simple... First of all,
#1) how did i know what card they selected from
the first deck??? and secondly, #2) how did i
turn it upside down in the other deck??? and #3) using the "Brainwave
Deck" -- how did the selected card appear in the second deck,
facing up, but also with a different color on its back???? This
is why it is so amazing...
But you must practice the
art of MIS-DIRECTION... That's very important in this
trick... Just look at the audience in the face, and explain what you are
doing (but actually, you are NOT really doing what you say you are
doing)... Same with the prayer at the end... If you pray for God's
assistance in performing a MIRACLE, to REVEAL the chosen card, the
prayer should contain the words: "... because there's no way in
the world that i could possibly know the chosen card..."
#9.
Basically, same as above, but replace CHaSeD deck with Stripper deck...
Good to alternate Stripper Deck with CHaSeD, because with Stripper, you
can shuffle with both a whiffle-shuffle as well as an overhand-shuffle,
which you CANNOT do with CHaSeD. Ideally, keep two
identical-looking card boxes (same color) in 2 separate pockets... You
can shuffle alternatively "behind your back," and with the other deck by
overhand or by whiffle... With stripper, i don't let the spectator pull
the card out, but just tell the spectator to touch the card, and i do
the pulling out, with eyes closed, etc. I reverse the deck
slowly during the Hebrew prayer... The spectator(s) remain focused
on the prayer, while you surreptitiously do the "magic."
Once you understand the general theory, there are various ways to
execute this same effect, or trick, or magic, or miracle...
Remember, when the same card appears in the other deck, you must act
equally as excited, because you had "no
idea" what card was chosen or selected from the other deck.