The theme was "Card Tricks with a Borrowed Deck",
hosted by AL HIRSCHEL. Al did his
favourite 7 card trick with much relish.
Then he did a Jack Assembly, and Coincidence Cards. He did a Card Assembly with a Naval theme in
which all the surrounding cards were progressively eliminated, leaving the
chosen card as the last man standing.
DAVID WHITSON did a
"Sam the Bellhop" type of effect, in which every card in the deck is
used to tell a story, and the values of the cards keep the story flowing with
interest. David attributed the idea to Eugene Berger.
We were introduced by JEFF CLARKE to his toy frog, which was
able to successfully find a chosen card for us in a spread of the deck across
the table. Carrying on the animal
theme, Jeff showed us some cards with a colourful design on the back for a card
to be chosen (e.g. "mouse"), and then when he assembled the remaining
cards in the group, the coloured backs formed a picture of the chosen mouse. (Other chosen animals would work too, with
the same cards !)
STEVE IRWIN used an ordinary deck to do a classic
"chosen card" trick, and then varied from the theme to produce three
enormous wands from a small purse. The
wands were each about a metre long and very colourful – quite a surprise !
Eight Card Brainwave was the first card item from JOHN
FERGUSON. In a group of eight cards,
only one is chosen by a spectator, and it has a different back from all the
others. With Deckstress, a card is
chosen, and proves to be the only card in the pack that has a message written
on the back ("e.g. I knew you would choose the King of Diamonds")
whereas all the other cards are clean.
NOEL CLAIR started by showing us a nice double fan of
cards. Then he asked four spectators one
at a time to randomly pick out any card from a pack, and all four cards turned
out to be aces ! He knotted a rope, and
all the knots were easily flicked off the rope and the rope was restored ! He concluded with the Professor's Nightmare.
