Card Divination

Performance and Patter

Setup: Ask the spectator to shuffle a deck of cards and remove any 10 cards.

Begin: “Today I’m going to demonstrate a little piece of card magic that works with the power of numbers. Before we begin, I want you to look at these 10 cards you’ve selected and think of any number between 1 and 10. Don’t tell me what it is.”

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Faro coincidence

Boy the world has changed! When I was young if you wanted to learn magic you had to hang out at a magic store. A real brick and mortar building. To get to the real good stuff you had to make friends with the magician behind the counter and prove your worth. If you were lucky they might show you something more than “Scotch and Soda”. They might recommend a really good hardback book on magic, but those books weren’t cheap. You had to pay your dues, so to speak.

Today you have the Internet. The brick and mortar stores are almost completely gone. I miss them.

Anyway, while I was surfing the web I found this self-working coincidence trick that looked interesting. Now like a lot of these tricks on the Internet, this one had several “kickers” to the coincidence effect. Go ahead and take a moment to look at it. It is at https://youtu.be/9KhQrR5uqN8?si=2rnxeBWteVBaXC7m .

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Lie Detector

I am getting old and forgetful. This morning I remembered a card trick that I liked to perform, but could not remember the steps nor remember what book/magazine I learned it from. I finally reconstructed the steps, and then decided that I need to write these tricks down. Note that this is not original. I just don’t remember where I learned this.

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