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Hiya Folks,

I saw a guy perform a card trick. on the side of the whole deck was lots of black scribbles and marks (Black Pen / sharpie or something)

He then had the Spec select a card. replace it to the deck. did a series of cuts, shuffle and some unnecessary flourish and put the cards in order so the black ink turned into writing stating the Spec's card.

Cant find it anywhere and it's bugging me.

any help is always greatly appreciated.

it could be "reset"
or "unshuffled".( Paul Gertner)


several magicians have their own versions of this. they all rely on perfect, or at least almost perfect Faro Shuffles.

http://www.geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php/Unshuffled

Have a little think about it, I wouldn't have thought that this would be all that difficult to figure out...

Lady of Mystery wrote:Have a little think about it, I wouldn't have thought that this would be all that difficult to figure out...

I can think of a few ways to do it but the way the guy did it was so good. i think i was with Faro's. which makes me unhappy as im not so good at them

This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96VKE558bEQ

or this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n71cAvyrd4M

Yep, the first one *unshuffled* but there must be a version without the Faro shuffle (For noobs like me )

spreadwave is awesome too!!!

there is one ive seen some time over te last 12 months that uses less shuffles. But a cant remember whos lecture it was at.

its remotely possible it was John Carey, but I am probably wrong.

Be warned, the problem with 'unshuffled' in its original form is that for a layperson, the effect is long and boring. For a magician it is impressive. I have seem a magician start the effect where they are only two shuffles or so away from the reveal, which does shorten the effect.

Ive just edited my post above.. It was John Carey who did the unshuffled type of effect.

magicj wrote:Yep, the first one *unshuffled* but there must be a version without the Faro shuffle (For noobs like me )

spreadwave is awesome too!!!

Instead of taking time to figure out how to do it without the Faro, why not learn the Faro, even a noob like you can do it.