Your Card!

EFFECT

A spectator draws a card while the deck is being held by the performer behind his back. The selection is perfectly free and the deck consists of but 52 cards. However, the performer states that the drawn card shall not be replaced. The spectator is to keep the card he has selected and the performer will reveal its ‘identity in a most unusual manner’.

So saying, the magician holds the remainder of the deck behind his back and drawing out one card throws it face down on the table. This is repeated with a second card. Explaining that it would be otherwise impossible to indicate the chosen and still missing card, the Wizard turns one card to indicate the suit and the other to reveal the value.

Both are correct!

METHOD

The simplest and most orthodox of principles is used to accomplish this really effective trick. A stacked deck (either the Eight Kings set up or that of Stebbins may be used) is at hand. After a false shuffle or cut, the deck is held behind back and a card is selected. All you have to do is cut the deck at the spot from where the card is taken. The spectator keeps the chosen pasteboard and at this point the thing to do is give the deck another false shuffle if possible.

The deck is placed behind the back once more and the cards which indicate suit and value are produced.

It is simply a matter of counting down and bringing out the Fourth card from top, which will be of the same suit – and continuing to the Thirteenth card from top which will be of the same value!

This principle works regardless of the stack used and it is a nice variance from the usual ‘put it back’.