Needle in a Haystack
Effect
The performer takes a borrowed deck, and removes three cards. Three spectators are given free choice of any of the three cards. The first spectator is asked for a number, and that many cards are dealt. Another spectator is asked for a number, and that number of cards are dealt as well. The third spectator then uses those numbers to deal more cards to a final card. When the first spectator turns his card over, it matches the number of the selected card. The other spectators do the same, and all cards match!
Performance
1. Take a borrowed deck of cards, and run through them, looking for three "prediction cards". Note the top card, and remove the three other cards of the same number.
2. Place these cards face down next to each other on the table. Each of three spectators chooses a card, looks at it without anyone else seeing, and replaces it onto the table.
3. The first spectator picks a number from 1 to 10. That many cards are dealt face down, one at a time, from the top of the deck, then put back on the top (reversing their original positions).
4. The second spectator is asked for a number from 11 to 20, and that many cards are dealt, one at a time, face down as before, then returned to the top of the deck.
5. The third spectator is asked for the difference between the first and second spectator's numbers, then deals that many cards. The next card is the "selected card", which was the original top card.
6. Each spectator is asked if he thinks his card is the one that matches, and when all four cards are shown, it's a surprise!
The performer takes a borrowed deck, and removes three cards. Three spectators are given free choice of any of the three cards. The first spectator is asked for a number, and that many cards are dealt. Another spectator is asked for a number, and that number of cards are dealt as well. The third spectator then uses those numbers to deal more cards to a final card. When the first spectator turns his card over, it matches the number of the selected card. The other spectators do the same, and all cards match!
Performance
1. Take a borrowed deck of cards, and run through them, looking for three "prediction cards". Note the top card, and remove the three other cards of the same number.
2. Place these cards face down next to each other on the table. Each of three spectators chooses a card, looks at it without anyone else seeing, and replaces it onto the table.
3. The first spectator picks a number from 1 to 10. That many cards are dealt face down, one at a time, from the top of the deck, then put back on the top (reversing their original positions).
4. The second spectator is asked for a number from 11 to 20, and that many cards are dealt, one at a time, face down as before, then returned to the top of the deck.
5. The third spectator is asked for the difference between the first and second spectator's numbers, then deals that many cards. The next card is the "selected card", which was the original top card.
6. Each spectator is asked if he thinks his card is the one that matches, and when all four cards are shown, it's a surprise!
