Haines House of Cards

You ask a spectator to think of any card in the deck. You then remove an ordinary looking deck and show it to the spectator. After asking the spectator which card they thought of, you very fairly spread through the deck to show that there is one card and one card only face down in the deck. The spectator pulls the card out to find that it is the exact same card they thought of only moments before!  Available in red or blue.

This lecture/workshop, courtesy of our friends at Haines House of Magic, will feature Richard demonstrating some of his classic routines, but the material will go far beyond that! The information will be geared towards ALL performers, not just Mentalists. Topics on stagecraft, the pragmatic philosophy of performing, audience appeal and much more will be covered along with the teaching and technical side of magical effects.

The Original and still the Best Martin Lewis' Sidewalk Shuffle routine involves four jumbo bicycle 4½" x 7" cards, 3 Blanks and an Ace. One Blank goes on the table. The spectator tries to keep track of the Ace, but he fails, for the Ace is now on the table. All of the cards in your hand are blank! You try it a second time, with the same results. The third time is the kicker. The card on the table really is a Blank! And, all three of the cards in your hand are now Aces!

With Close-up Cardiographic, Martin has taken his classic sketchpad Rising Card to the next level. The effect is the same as Cardiographic, but built for close-up performances; a drawing of a selected card rises from a drawing of a deck of cards. The resulting impossible object is handed out as a souvenir.