On Apr 2, 2015, merlin2812 wrote:
Hello,

thanks for the sharing!
I didn't quite understand the part where you propose to put a 7 of hearts or a queen on the top? What for? Or the ace of spades on the bottom?

best,

merlin

On Apr 18, 2015, RogerTheShrubber wrote:
The queen / seven / ace thing got me thinking - I've heard of this sort of thing, but never looked into it. What are other commonly named cards, and in the experience of those here, are these cards that much more common than the others? From my experience, males seem to name the king of spades fairly often.

Nice trick, BTW. I thought it was too easy when I read it, but tried it yesterday and it worked awfully well.

On Apr 18, 2015, the fritz wrote:

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On Apr 18, 2015, RogerTheShrubber wrote:
The queen / seven / ace thing got me thinking - I've heard of this sort of thing, but never looked into it. What are other commonly named cards, and in the experience of those here, are these cards that much more common than the others? From my experience, males seem to name the king of spades fairly often.

Nice trick, BTW. I thought it was too easy when I read it, but tried it yesterday and it worked awfully well.

I believe Psychological Subtleties 1 has a section on this. If you have it on your shelf, take a look and see. Mine is packed away but if yours isn't, it might be worth a look.

On Apr 19, 2015, nattefrost wrote:
Isn't the crosscut force great? I do it constantly and never have been questioned. It is important though that you take their attention off of the deck even if it's for a second or two. Sometimes after the cut I just raise my voice and say "do you want to see something incredible" while looking in their eyes and that's enough misdirection right there. Great all around force!

On Apr 19, 2015, TerrorInt wrote:
Nice presentation. I like the clever manner of moving their chosen card into place.

My handling of the cross-cut uses a different premise and reveal. I use a blue back deck, and the top face card is a red-back card of a black suit. After I apparently shuffle the deck, I let them do the cut, etc the same way you do. I pick up the packet and let them see the card after a similar patter-filled time delay. Then I square the deck and then "read their mind". But instead of a black card (the suit colour), I "get it wrong" and guess it's a red card. Spec will disagree of course. I let them pick up the deck and find their card. When they take the card out, I take the remaining deck and spread it backside up on the table. They usually put their card down the same way, or at least turn it around, and notice it is red.

Then I remark that no wonder I thought it was a red card. But wow what are the odds you would cut to the only red back card in the entire deck. How did that even happen? I then pick up a red deck and ribbon spread it backside up to find the mistaken blue card and swap them as if it was all a really weird mistake, and they miraculously figured it out. I close with a comment like "you're better at this than *I* am!"

Normally my patter is more serious pseudo-science or pseudo-history, so I use this for a bit of levity. Especially if my spec is younger since they are often not exposed to mentalism getting totally derailed and still working out somehow.

On Apr 19, 2015, nattefrost wrote:
Isn't the crosscut force great? I do it constantly and never have been questioned. It is important though that you take their attention off of the deck even if it's for a second or two. Sometimes after the cut I just raise my voice and say "do you want to see something incredible" while looking in their eyes and that's enough misdirection right there. Great all around force!