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The other Saturday I found myself in a bar with some magical chums performing for a couple of the laiety. We were all, I must admit, well in our cups by this point.

I have in my repertoire a "spectator as clairvoyant" piece, whereby someone describes the scene on a folded drawing they have yet to see. It's one of my favourite bits, is original to me, and doesn't always work.

On this occasion it became apparent very early on in the process, that the effect was not going to work. I informed said spectator that it had all gone horribly wrong (a terrible crime, I know), and made my apologies. A moment later he tripped off to the boy's room.

So I took back the still folded drawing, and redrew it to match the scene he had described.

On his return, his curiosity got the better of him, and he unfolded the drawing.

Mind blown.

I ended up having to do it again for his good lady wife, who thankfully came up with something I could pass off as a semi-hit, further cementing the reality of the effect that I had performed initially.

The rest is a blur. There was a taxi, and a refusal of money.

So, what's your boldest moment?

After divining a randomly thought of number and giving my pseudo-scientific method not simply saying NW, the young lady insisted I write down a number and she try it on me. The other spectator wanted to see my number so had to just go for it.

I transmitted my thought of number and she got it right, needless to say I milked it for all it was worth.

Spectator grabs a card and says, alright what's this one.
I just looked in her sunglasses, and told her card.
I repeated it about three times, then walked away.