This effect has become one of my favorites, given the highly visual elements of this routine along with the spectator's reactions. This effect has 3 phases that have built-in misdirection. How so? The misdirection comes from the spectators thinking that the trick is over. They relax, they attempt to mentally reconstruct what they have seen and then ... WHAM! --- the next phase comes into play.
Phase 1: A deck of Blue Back cards are spread to reveal a single Red Back card. This card is introduced as your prediction card. The card is placed face down. Now, a spectator selects a card.
Phase 2: The face of the prediction card is revealed to have random inkblots --- the type that Psychologist use on the Rorchach Inkblot Tests. You inform the spectators that you can't really predict their chosen card but you can have them visualize their card by concentrating on the inkblots and with a little imagination and magic, something special will happen. As theyconcentrate on the inkblots, the image visually forms into their thought of card --- the 2 of Hearts.
Phase 3: You inform the spectators that the 2 of Hearts is a very special card because it has a story associated with it. The story is about two lovers (2 hearts) that have been eternally seperated. The hearts belong to the two bicycle riding Angels on the back of the card --- that they long to be togehther but they are trapped in their circles/spheres forever. Never to be together. Yet ... with a little magic you unite the angels. At this point the united-angel-card can be examined and given away as a souvenir.
Phase 4: At this point, you simply wait a few moments and the spectator will most certainly ask if you can seperate the Angels again --- "put them back to where they were" (as if the balance of the universe needed to be restored). As a Magician, you do so in a very visual manner. This "restored" card can be given out as a keepsake. You end clean.
This effect comes complete with Bicycle Rider Back factory printed cards, materials and detailed instructions.
Tools For The Thoughtful Magician
Copyright 2009 by Shawn C. Evans All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Mimesis Magic, LLC. Mimesis Magic reserves all commercial rights to the tricks and apparatus described within this book. Any transgression of those rights will be prosecuted.
