Meet Your Match
In this clever card trick, freely
selected cards, magically find their mate.
Effect: Two cards are
freely (yes, freely) selected and inserted face up in the deck in two different
places. Magician runs through the deck and drops the face-up selected card and
the face-down card next to it, on the table.When the face-down cards are turned
face up, they are seen to be the mates of the selected cards in color and
value.
Set-up: Put deck in
“Best Friends” order. See below.
Performance: Spread the
deck and have a card selected. Cut all cards above selected card to the bottom.
Have card removed and replaced on the top of the deck, face up. Undercut half
the deck and peek at the bottom card. If it is a mate to the selected card,
remember that the selected card is a before card. If it is not a mate, the
selected card is an after card. Drop the cards in your right hand on top of the
face up card.
Repeat this 2 or 3 times; if you do it more
times than that, it can be hard to remember what cards are what. Now run
through the deck. When you hit an after card, drop it and the card after iton
the table. When you hit a before card, drop it and the card before it onthe
table. Flip over the cards, and they match. Be sure to explain the mate concept
before you flip over the cards.
Features: Cards cut as
often as you like
Cards are freely chosen, no forces of any kind
Does not work on Rainbow Deck principle
Best Friends Order The deck
is simply set up in pairs by value and color. Put the two red kings together,
the two black twos, the two red jacks, etc. You can cut this deck all you want.
The Best Friends effect wont be affected if a pair are separated, one on top
and one on bottom. With another cut the order will right itself.
