Dave Forrest presents 'LOXLEY'! A killer 'predicted card at number effect' with a stunning kicker!
Effect:
You send a picture message to your participants mobile phone (or, you
can just hand them an envelope with a picture inside if you prefer) -
it's your prediction. You hand them a Joker and ask them to push it
anywhere they like, face up into the face down deck. It's a completely
free choice, they can genuinely push it in where they like.
You
explain that whatever card is ABOVE the Joker will be the focus of the
experiment. But, you also don't want to know where that Joker lies in
the deck so, the spectator is instructed to freely cut the cards as many
times as he wishes so that no one could possibly even estimate the
position of that Joker.
Two things are certain. One - no one
could know which card lies above the Joker. And two - no one could
possibly know at which position in the deck that card lies. You spread
through and locate the Joker, leaving it out-jogged. You now count cards
from the top down until you reach the card directly above the Joker -
it's the Jack of Clubs and it's exactly 16 cards down in the deck.
The
participant checks the picture message on their mobile phone - it's a
photograph of a Jack of Clubs with a small post-it stuck on the face
which reads '16th' in bold black letters! You mention that, in fact, you
were so certain of this outcome that you didn't actually bother using
the rest of the cards. The deck is turned face up and every single card
is freely shown to be completely BLANK! It's completely unfathomable and
the reactions are THROUGH THE ROOF!