by copyright » Dec 4th, '06, 14:47
C'mon it's $5.95!
I still use the 'milking trick' (p.65-7) to great effect.
Although, when I do it, a thought occurs to me after the milking. I make a note of something on a piece of paper - change my mind and cross it out. Then I ask the spectator deal out his remaining cards onto the table face-up. We both look at them, I glance at my writing and nod thoughtfully and say something like this is interesting. And make another note. The cards are then deal face down on the table and the spectator choses one of the cards. "That was an interesting little aside" I comment and flip over my paper to reveal that I had noted down the card he would chose.
(Needless to say, the crossed out prediction can clearly be seen to be the same card as the second prediction thanks to x2writing and the spec 'chooses' his card via magician's choice)
Back to the trick. Of course, if you know the milking trick, you know that I now know the card the spectator chose at the beginning of the effect, after shuffling a borrowed deck throughly and picking out the card himself. All I have to do is bring his card to the top of the remaining deck and reveal it anyway I like.
I do the milk fast and never point it out. Normally I'm talking to the spectator so all they don't really look at the cards, they just hear shuffling. No-one ever mentions the action, I don't, so presumably people just take it for mildly-fancy shuffling.