Anyone who doesn’t try this at least once before a fair sized audience is passing up a nice bet. It is so much to the point and fast that the effect is always startling. Take a deck and, holding it face outwards, make a right to left fan remarking that the cards seem pretty well mixed. The audience sees this. Close the fan and approach a spectator at one side. You fan the cards again in front of him so that he alone can see the face of the fan. This time you make a left to right fan and say “I want you to just think of any card you see.” (This right to left, and left to right fanning is from the performer’s view of the back of the cards.) As the spectator looks at the face of the fan and looks at you, just wink once with your offside eye, and say “You have one ? Please remember it.“

This method of fanning makes it impossible for him to see more than one card, the bottom one ! Close the deck and walk to the other side of the room or audience. As you go, overhand shuffle the bottom card to the top. Ask someone to stand and tell you when to stop as you riffle end of the deck. Deck is in your left hand and you riffle outer end. When stopped, the left fingers around the side of the deck press down a little as the right pulls the upper portion away a little towards the left, and the top card drops to the top of the lower portion and is removed by the spectator. Or, force it in any way you please. Now ask the first spectator to “name the card he saw.” Then have the second man show his card. This fanning principle has been used as a gag heretofore. This makes a stunning bit.