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marko Inner circle 2109 Posts |
Come on, the method is so obvious anyway. Chrismatt obviously owns 52 cars each with a card at every number in their glove compartment. All he has to do is ask the person to name any card and any number. Knowing this he can then ask them if they'd like to go for a drive, and picking the appropriate car for their drive, can then do a miracle. Sorry to reveal your method man, but some things are just too easy.
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chrismatt Special user Why would you read any of my 978 Posts |
Close, but no cigar.
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ronin77 New user NYC 46 Posts |
marko,
brilliant! i'm going to start performing this tomorrow! i can't believe i didn't recognize the abbreviation -- especially considering what the entire thread is about! thanks for all the info |
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ROBERT BLAKE Inner circle 1472 Posts |
You can find the Mullica effect in his book "Showtime at the foolery bar" page 48 and it's called "the number trick".
Mike close als has an "any card at any number " trick. |
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Alan Jackson Elite user Cardiff, UK 432 Posts |
I recommend the version (mentioned earlier) by David Regal in "Star Quality" by Harry Lorayne.
There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary numbers, and those who don't.
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Whitini New user 34 Posts |
What about Guy Hollingworths Signed Card at Any Number. Very good effect using no more than a double lift.
Whitini |
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Jon Allen V.I.P. England 1771 Posts |
I am very interested in the 'Card at Any Number' effect as I have come up with my own version. Here's the routine:
Your prediction is placed on the table. The deck is uncased on the table. You ask for a number between 1 - 52 You deal the cards face up so they can be seen to be different. The card at the number is shown. It matches the prediciton. No memorized stack, shifting of cards, dodgy dealing (all cards are dealt cleanly) or number forcing. It's fooled a lot of very knowledgeable people over here in England! If anyone's going to the Washington Day of Magic, I'll hopefully be doing it there.
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jacksorbetter Regular user Philadelphia 121 Posts |
marko would need 52^2 cars for his method, one car for each card at each possible number. sounds like a method for Bill gates!
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JasonEngland V.I.P. Las Vegas, NV 1728 Posts |
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On 2003-03-31 00:18, jacksorbetter wrote: Uh, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the original answer of 52 was correct. Imagine a deck in new deck order. That's one. Now shift the Ace of Spades to the top of the deck. That's two. Now shift the 2 of Spades to the top. That's three. By the time you've shifted all 52 cards to the top you've placed each and every selection at numbers 1-52. The thing to remember is that deck number one doesn't JUST contain the ace of Hearts at position one; it ALSO contains the 2 of Hearts at position 2, the 3H at position 3, and so on. There may indeed by 2704 possible arrangements of any card at any number, but since each deck contains 52 "responses", your total deck count is 2704/52 = 52. Jason
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chrismatt Special user Why would you read any of my 978 Posts |
Here's a post I left in another thread on this subject some time ago:
The "Holy Grail" of mentalism with cards is probably the ACAAN effect, wherein the S has the deck before the card and number are called out and the M never touches the deck, but lets the S do all the counting. Many of the approaches rely on stooges. Barrie Richardson has a theoretical solution, which relies on 13 separately stacked decks and a somewhat complicated crib. (Query: If the two Jokers were placed on top and the two advertising cards were placed on the bottom of each deck, you presumably--with the S removing or not the extra cards before the actual counting--would need fewer decks. How few would you need?) All you would require is a clean method to deliver the proper deck to the S. Has anyone built a special desk drawer (or car glove compartment) to deliver the correct deck to the unsuspecting S?
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jacksorbetter Regular user Philadelphia 121 Posts |
Jason, you are right of course! what the hell was I thinking about? not the math obviously!
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Loz Special user London 777 Posts |
There is a quite extraordinary solution to this problem in Mind Myth and Magic by Waters. It involves a deck so heavily gaffed it is verging on the insane, but the effect is:
Performer takes boxed deck and places on table (no switch!). S says card and number. M removes deck from case and places it in front of S who then deals down and his card is at the number. Think I'm remembering this correctly. Anyone ever gone to the trouble of the gaffing? |
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chrisis1 New user Amsterdam 70 Posts |
Thanx again, all of you. I watched the Mullica tape again and was very surprised that the effect was different from the effect I had remebered. It was not a card at any number, but a card at any number between ten and twenty. In my mind it was very clean and there could be no possible way of sleight of hand. But when I watched the tape again I saw Mullica do his sleight. So by now I have a pretty good idea of the method. If I'm wrong about the Mullica method, I have invented a new trick. That would even be better.
But it's funny how you're perception of a magic trick can differ from the actual effect and handling. Imagine that I was a lay person without a vcr to watch it again. |
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jimtron Inner circle 2039 Posts |
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On 2003-04-01 03:22, Loz wrote: Anyone know the name or page number of this? |
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