SELF WORKING CARD MAGIC SERIES # 1

Impromptu Out of This World

No Set Up
Remove 2 red and 2 black cards from a deck and lay them on a table face up, from left to right, black,
red, black, red. Remove 15 red and 15 black cards, and give them to a spectator to shuffle
thoroughly, so that the reds and blacks will be well mixed. Take back this 30 card packet.
Call attention to the 4 cards on the table face up which you say are guide or marker cards. You wish
to try a little experiment. The object is for the spectator, without seeing any of the cards, to try to
guess which is red and which is black, and at the finish you will see how successful he has been.
Spread the cards with their faces toward you and away from spectator. Remove a black card from
the fan and holding it face down, ask the spectator to guess what color it is. If he says black place it
on the first black guide card, the one at the extreme left. (Your left.) If ye says red place it on the first
red guide card, the one second from the left.
Remove another black card and without showing it place it on either No. 1 red, or No.2 guide card,
according to which color he calls. It might be mentioned that you don't cover the guide cards, but
place cards on them so they overlap half way, and one half the guide cards can be seen at all times.
Or if you prefer, simply place cards BELOW the guide cards.
Continue until blacks are exhausted. The same procedure continues but now you use the 3rd
and 4th guide cards, placing all 15 reds on either the 3rd guide, which is black, or the 4th guide,
which is red, according to the color named.
When all the cards are on the table, pick up the 4 heaps in the following order, but leave the guide
cards where they are. Pick up No.2 pile and put on top of No.3 pile. Put these 2 combined piles on
No.1. Finally pick up No.4 pile and put on top of the other 3.
Spread the guide cards, which are in a row, farther apart. Turn over the packet in your hands,
and spread them face up in a ribbon spread underneath the guide cards. It will be seen that
a group of black cards is under the first black guide card at the left, followed by a group of red
cards beneath the second red guide card, then the remaining black cards in a group under the
3rd black card, and finally the last of the red cards under the 4th red guide card. Miraculously
the onlooker is proved to be 100 per cent perfect in his guesses.

Enjoy !From The Magic Man

EFFECT # 9