The Conjurer's Prediction Three spectators are each requested to think of a card, after which the performer successively seizes each person's hand and asks them to think intently of their card, looking the performer in the eye (as if reading their thoughts). Stating that the respective names of the three cards has been successfully divined, the conjurer proceeds to write their names on three slips of paper, which are rolled up and placed in a glass. The three spectators are then asked to remove their cards from the pack. The pack is then counted, and naturally found to contain forty-nine cards (with three cards removed, this makes a correct total of fifty-two). The spectators then place their cards in a small shallow box, held by the performer, while the remainder of the pack is placed on a second inverted glass. The selected cards now disappear from the box, which is shown to be entirely empty, and reappear in the pack. The slips of paper in the first glass are opened and are found to contain the correct names of the mentally chosen cards. For the performance of this trick the conjurer requires an assistant, stationed behind the scenes, and who holds in readiness a number of slips of paper on which is written, " -- of Hearts, --of Clubs," etc. Furthermore the performer needs a card box, a pack of fifty-two cards arranged in a certain known order, and a duplicate pack consisting of only forty-nine cards. This pack is placed on the Servante. In addition, under the performer's vest or pochette are concealed three indifferent cards. After the three spectators have each thought of a card, the conjurer makes a pretense of thought reading as described, and then feigns to write the names of the cards on the slips of paper (which are rolled up and placed in the glass). The spectators then remove their cards from the complete pre-arranged pack, which the performer immediately exchanges for the pack of forty-nine cards on the Servante. While the cards in the replacement deck are being counted, the assistant, under the pretext of bringing in the Card Box, enters. While placing the box on the table, the assistant obtains possession of the cards on the Servante and secretly carries them behind the scenes. Rapidly running over the cards, the assistant notes the missing ones and fills in their values (for instance, King, Four, Nine) on the slips of paper lying in readiness. These are rolled up and brought out concealed in the hand holding the second glass. During the time the pack has been counted and three chosen cards placed in the Card Box. Requesting the spectator who has counted the pack to hand it back, the conjurer secretly adds the three vested cards and places them on the second glass handed over by the assistant. In the mean time the assistant manages, unobserved, to give the conjurer the rolled up slips of paper. The cards are now told to disappear from the box and to return to the pack, which is then counted, proving the order to have been obeyed. All that now remains for the performer to do is to exchange the three palmed slips received from the assistant for the ones in the glass. This the conjurer can do easily in the act of handing them to a spectator, or by taking the slips out of the glass by the right hand and pretending to transfer them to the left, really palming them and at the same moment showing the papers concealed in the left hand. Home | Card Tricks | Card Trick Skills | The Pass | The Force | Changes False Shuffling | The Glimpse | Card Palm | Card Sleights Copyright © 2003-2006 HowToDoCardTricks.com. All rights reserved worldwide.   You can quickly get a copy of every trick on this web site in a downloadable PDF book. That's over 40 classic card tricks to amaze and astound your friends, all stored on your computer to refer to at any time! Just click the link below to get your own copy today for just $5.