Nick showed me a great new trick. It fulfils my need for effects that can be performed with a shuffled unprepared deck. it's called Impossible, and it's a pretty good description. Three piles of cards are made, 5 cards in each. The participant takes one pile at random, cuts to a card. this half of their pile is put on any one of the remaining piles, then the second pile placed on top finally the remainder of their chosen pile placed on top. The chosen card is turned invisible, removed, rotated and kept away from the deck. The cards are shown face up -several at a time- and the chosen card appears to have vanished. The magician counts the cards down spelling the work IMPOSSIBLE (for a dyslexic this is the hardest part of the effect) on the "E" a card is shown face down, the magician names the card and turns it over, it is the selected card.
I performed this in the wild last night. It was very well received by magicians and muggles alike. The scripting received some help from friend, the beats and the structure were improved as the night went on. My handling was ok, but could be slicker. must remember people associate slickness of the hands with compitant and impressive magicians, and not just card sharps and jugglers like I do
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