Card Tricks
Knock Em Dead by Peter Nardi
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The Effect.
You hand a deck of cards to the spectator explaining that you aren’t going to interfere with them in anyway. You ask the spectator to deal the cards face down onto your open palm, and tell them to stop wherever they feel like it.
They truly have total free will at this point and can stop anywhere they like. Once they stop, and you have confirmed that they are happy with where they stopped, you tell them that you made a prediction before the performance and you reveal the exact card they freely stopped at.
Difficulty. 1/5
1=Even I can do it, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
Very easy. This must rank as one of the easiest card tricks of all time.
Review.
This is one of the tricks I saw Peter Nardi demo the other night, and to be perfectly honest, I am a little disappointed that no one here has reviewed it before!!! This is Very Good!
In my opinion, this is an extremely strong trick. The deck is entirely handled by the spectator, and yet every time the magician will predict the card that the spectator freely stops at. Since I have only had it a few days, I have only shown it to a few people, but judging by their reaction (and what other way can we judge the effectiveness of a trick?) I can see this one being part of my general repertoire.
This is very effective. The only reasons that I have marked it down slightly is that the deck is not 100% examinable afterwards (but then this isn’t unique to card tricks), and that it can’t readily be shown to the same group of people more than once. (but then I was taught never ever to do that anyway).
Rating. Effect/item: 8/10, Quality of goods: 9/10, Value for money: 8/10
Bottom Line.
This trick will (as they say) “Knock ‘Em Dead”. It will be one of the decks I carry around with me. It’s not as cheap as some, but it is very very effective.