Effect: Spectator chooses a card at
random, initials it, puts it on top of the deck, cuts the deck
then shuffles it, and when the magician snaps the card
magically goes to the top of the deck. Then the magician tells
the spectator what the chosen card was.
Card Trick: Fan out the deck,
and have a spectator choose any card. Tell the spectator to
show the card to the audience but don't let you see it. Hand
the spectator a marker and tell him/her to put his/her
initials on the card, and put the card on top of the deck.
Square up the deck and secretly palm the spectators card while
distracting him/her by saying how the cards in that deck have
a strange way of jumping to different places in the deck. Tell
the spectator to cut the deck and shuffle the deck. While the
spectator is cutting and shuffling the deck glimpse at the
palmed card, and memorize it. When the spectator is finished
take the deck in your left hand, bring it to the right hand,
and put the palmed card on top of the deck while squaring it.
Then snap your fingers and have the spectator take the top
card, which is the card he/she chose and initialed. Then tell
the spectator what his/her card is.
