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Mis-Indexed Court Cards
Les Clefs de la Magie

Mis-Indexed Court Cards

Effect: A card is named by your spectator and it matches your prediction, the unique card you keep in your wallet!Setup: You need a wallet in which you can hide your six cards. Place your cards inside in an order you remember. This way you can access the "named" card without having to search for it.Alakazam's Stealth Assassin Wallet is a great combination, with the LIGHT cards folded and spread across the index.However, it is very easy to hide 6 folded cards in just about any wallet, as you can fit "two folded cards" into a horizontal slot behind a credit card! Glue a third (folded) card onto the same credit card, but hidden behind the leather, and you now have hidden 3 cards... repeat in another slot and you're ready to go.Routine: Place your wallet on the table."In my wallet, I keep my lucky playing card... In a moment, I'm going to ask you to choose a card, but that will be in your imagination. Take this, please."The mime holds out an invisible deck of cards."This card game is invisible, so you have to be imaginative... As you scan the cards in your hands and mind, you notice that the deck is divided in half, please hold half the deck in each hand (the word "half" makes it sound like there are more picture cards than there are, it's subtle, but it works). In your right hand you now hold all the picture cards, jacks, queens, kings, etc. and in your left hand you hold all the numbered cards, aces, twos, threes, etc.I'm going to count from 3 to 1 and you're going to give me back either ALL the picture cards or ALL the number cards... 3...2...1"You will then be given one or the other package... From this point on, you decide how to continue the game by making the person believe that they have chosen to keep the picture cards."Which one did you give me?"If he says the picture cards..."I will spread all these cards face down on a table (invisible table - mime this action), all the jacks, queens, kings and all the suits, spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds, are here in a random order... Think carefully and choose the one you like."They mime choosing a card."Which card did you choose?"They say the Jack of Spades (of course, they can name ANY picture card)."Out of 52 choices, you chose the Jack of Spades. Do you remember I said I had a lucky playing card?Without saying another word, I slowly pick up the wallet, go inside, and grab the folded card that I know represents the two black jacks (Spades and Clubs). I note the markings on the back of the card to know how to open it to cover the "club" clue with my fingers. I show that the card is the jack of spades. Everyone is ecstatic and the effect is complete!The only difference at the end of the effect is that I am dealt the numbered cards... In that case, I say..."So you kept all the picture cards. Now imagine that you have an invisible table in front of you, spread all the cards face down on it and shuffle them.