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Hi All,

A good number of years ago, whilst the late Peter Kane was still with us, I arranged for Peter to give my local magic club a lecture (something he very rarely did).

Anyway. In this lecture he performed and described a packet trick with four blue backed jokers. These individually turn to Red backed Jokers.

Now, I have tried doing a search through the internet, and have not found any reference to this is any of his works, or other peoples.

I used to perform this, and it was a wicked visual trick to have with you at all times. A true gem.

Anyone know where I can get hold of the handling for this trick? In case it helps, I can say that a R/B Double Backed card, 2 blue and 1 red back Jokers are used. I think thats right. Might have been 2 Red and 1 blue back joker. Apologies mods if this is too close to giving it away. Im pretty sure its not commercially available.

Phil

I have Peter's International Magic lecture video. The first effect on it is described only as 'Red Blue Joker Effect', or something very similar. I got the video mainly for Jazz Aces and I can't remember the exact details of the Joker effect. I will check the video when I get home to see if it matches what you describe. If it does then you should be in luck because I think IM still sell the video.

Edit: Wow, you're in Chiang Mai! I bought my first thumb-tip from a dodgy guy on the market there before I knew the first thing about magic.

Just checked the video and this routine is definitely the one you describe. It's available from International Magic. They also have it as a DVD these days.

That looks very useful. I'm gonna add this to my birthday wish list. Thanks for bringing it up, mallmagician. And thanks for showing it, Charles.

I can HIGHLY reccomend this DVD in that case! Worth the cost just for this trick IMHO. The routine works very well, is very visual, and the way it works is that the cards are put away as they change, so you end up (sorta) clean.

Cheers for the info, and for checking your video. I will be ordering this on DVD today.

Phil