Effect:

You tell a person to pick the top card of the pile and to

memorize it, then to put the card back into the pile. Taking the

deck, you act like you are trying to get "psychic" messages from

it. While they concentrate on their card, you name it.

1: Take an ordinary deck, and ask the spectator to shuffle it.

2: Spread the cards like a fan, face up, telling the spectators that

the deck is in no particular order. While doing this, look at and

remember the top card.

3: Have the spectator cut the deck into three piles. Be sure you

keep an eye on the card that was on top of the deck. Arrange the

piles so the first cut pile (the top of the deck) is in-between the

other piles.

4: Ask them to look at the card on top of the middle pile, and to

memorize it. Then they are to put it inside one of the piles. (You

already know what this card is.)

5: Put the deck back together and shuffle the cards.

6: Have the spectator concentrate on the colour of the card they

picked, you tell them the colour. Have them concentrate on the

suit, you tell them the suit. Then the number, you tell them the

number.

 

The trick is done; you should have them stunned at your psychic

abilities.