Effect : The performer mentions that two is his lucky number and to illustrate introduces a pack of cards and two envelopes, these later being stood in a prominent position against a book or candlestick. The cards are then brought to a spectator who is requested to deal two heaps, choose one and then shuffle the cards he has chosen. After this he is requested to deal the cards slowly one at a time face downwards onto a table or chair, and another spectator is requested to tell him to stop dealing whenever he wishes. When this point of the…
Eight years ago, in 1930, I evolved what was a new effect in subtle cardology. A mentally chosen card was to automatically turn over in the deck! There could be no sleight or fumble of a known nature, and the card must be an absolute free choice from among the 52. The method, with which I had good success in deceiving not a few of the experts, was based on a principle of preparing cards on their surface so that when a pair of these treated sides did come into contact they would adhere enough to prevent separation when the…
:: EFFECT :: This is one of those extremely effective stunts which the subject remembers for many a year and thinks about whenever he has you in his mind. It makes a nice number also for the press. A card is selected, replaced and the deck shuffled. The performer shows a card and asks if it is the chosen one. The answer is "no." This card is placed on the table and the spectator told to cover it with his hand. The performer now tells him to look intently at his (performer's) forehead and imagine he sees an image of…
New discoveries in the commercial world are responsible for many magical effects, and the following was born of such a thing. The performer has the usual card selected, marked, and returned to the pack which is shuffled and dropped into a hat for further mixing, as the magus says, in order that they may be shaken around without the possibility of being controlled by the hands. From his pocket the performer now takes a roll of ribbon about two feet long, and unrolling it, may tie one end to his wand or a table knife to represent a fishing pole…
Remove from your deck, say the King of Clubs. With India ink, change the Club pips at one end to Spade pips. Place the genuine King of Spades face down on top of the pack. Put the faked card on the bottom with the Spade pip towards your body. Turn the deck face up, the right thumb covering the Spade pips of the faked card, which makes the card apparently the King of Clubs. Each card is shown, as they are run off singly, reversing their order. The faked card will now be the bottom card of the face up…
Counting fifteen cards onto the hand of a spectator, the conjuror asks him to recount them, to verify the number. To prevent mistakes, the conjuror again counts on the spectator's hand, requesting that two cards be handed to him from the pile. They are vanished and reappear among the spectator's cards which are counted once more. This effect is repeated, and finally the fifteen are vanished and found in the helper's pocket ! It is all in the count, so to speak. To commence, at a suitable time slip fifteen cards into somebody's outside coat pocket. This is comparatively easy…
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.…
Seldom a trick comes along with a truly genius-like idea behind it and I honestly think that everyone who reads this now will do it immediately and continue to use it in preference to many others. Mr Dalban suggests that it be used as a followup to one of the regular spelling effects. It is true that this could be so used in order to circumvent the 'do-it-again' person but even alone I think it of the best. The only requisite is a deck in which there is a short card. While the performer's back is turned a spectator spells…
This effect is totally new from the audience's point of view and that is something to be looked for in this day when effects are pretty difficult to evolve. The performer states that very few people have a retentive mind and remember what they actually see. He states that in every accident case, there are contradictory stories about what actually happened. To prove his point he takes a deck from its case and shuffles. Passing to a spectator and holding the deck very openly and fairly on his left hand he asks this party to lift up the corner and…
This is an exceptionally clean method for having a chosen and marked card vanish from the deck and then removed from the performer's pocket by the spectator himself. The fact that it is marked and seen in the pack at the very last minute makes it confusing to say the least. It won't be necessary to detail the effect so we shall explain the method and the reader can follow it with cards in hand. There is one slightly faked card and the accompanying illustration explains or shows the difference between the pips at either end. The card, it will…