Rather unique is this reversal of a chosen card in that it also is combined with a version of the ‘card to the top’ effect. The working will be described along with the effect. A double backed card to match the deck is used.

Place this double backed card on top of the pack and have a card selected. Undercut about half of the pack, have the chosen pasteboard replaced on top of the deck, and cover with the undercut lower half. At this point the chosen card, with double backer directly under it, must be brought to the top. You may employ a pass if you are accustomed to using it, if you use the Hindu Shuffle, the lower half is shuffled onto the upper half, the top few cards of this half being lifted and shuffled to the top. Then, on top of this, the deck is given a dovetail shuffle and two more cards left on top. The set up at the moment is, reading from the top down, two cards, the selected card, and the double backer.

Now turn over the top card, and make a double or two card lift. Ask if this be the card. The answer is no, as it is, say the Ace of Clubs. Turn the two cards as one face down, take off the top card and insert it in the center of the deck. Now turn the next card face up asking the same question “Is this your card ?” It is the Ace again ! Surprised, they say no once more. At this point, the Ace is face up on the deck. In turning this over as before THREE cards are turned as one. Then you lift two cards as one and insert them in the deck together. This action replaces the actual chosen card reversed in the center of the deck. Once more you ask if the top card be the chosen one. Once more it turns out to be the Ace ! Then you give up and explain that when you can’t make a chosen card be at the top, there is only one way to find it and that is by making it turn over. They name their chosen card, you spread them and in the center the card is found face up. The combination is very surprising and effective.