Description
Effect....The magician places a playing card face down in front of a spectator who now
names any card, they turn the card over and yes, it’s the thought of card.
What you’re going to read will sound impossible, trust me, this WILL work and I even
catch magicians with this.
You must follow this script to make this work.
Method....Have any deck shuffled, remove the Jack of Diamonds and place it face down in
front of the spectator.........Now say the following........
You shuffled the cards--pause--there are 52 cards all different—pause—red and black—
pause—four suits—pause—number cards—pause—all well mixed—longer pause (2/3
seconds)--DIAMONDS AND PICTURE CARDS, NAME ONE OF THEM (you say this last
part of the script very slowly and in a firm voice while maintaining constant eye contact
with the spectator).
The spectator will name the Jack of Diamonds 9 times out of 10. Mention that before you
started the effect you placed one card down in front of them, now say “I didn’t ask you to
choose a card, only to think of one, and the card you thought of was the Jack of Diamonds.
Ask them now to turn over the card you placed down in front of them way before they
even named their “thought” of card. Notice you don’t say “the card you named” which is
actually the real situation. What you’re actually doing is re-framing the spectators mind
into believing that they thought of the Jack of Diamonds.
OK let’s get down to why this will work and also I will also cover some “outs”.
names any card, they turn the card over and yes, it’s the thought of card.
What you’re going to read will sound impossible, trust me, this WILL work and I even
catch magicians with this.
You must follow this script to make this work.
Method....Have any deck shuffled, remove the Jack of Diamonds and place it face down in
front of the spectator.........Now say the following........
You shuffled the cards--pause--there are 52 cards all different—pause—red and black—
pause—four suits—pause—number cards—pause—all well mixed—longer pause (2/3
seconds)--DIAMONDS AND PICTURE CARDS, NAME ONE OF THEM (you say this last
part of the script very slowly and in a firm voice while maintaining constant eye contact
with the spectator).
The spectator will name the Jack of Diamonds 9 times out of 10. Mention that before you
started the effect you placed one card down in front of them, now say “I didn’t ask you to
choose a card, only to think of one, and the card you thought of was the Jack of Diamonds.
Ask them now to turn over the card you placed down in front of them way before they
even named their “thought” of card. Notice you don’t say “the card you named” which is
actually the real situation. What you’re actually doing is re-framing the spectators mind
into believing that they thought of the Jack of Diamonds.
OK let’s get down to why this will work and also I will also cover some “outs”.