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i bought david blaine's book. good read by the way, talks about history of magic and a little bit of bio on him and how he did/prepared for those 3 ridiculous stunts. buried alive, the ice one and vertigo

but he talked about a trick that some magician did for....s***, i forget who, but he was a political leader in europe during ww2, i think. dam, i even did a project on him, but anyway, he explained the card trick, where the magician would mix the cards and pass them to the volunteer, the volunteer would then hold the deck fave down and deal all the cards he "thought" were black into said pile and all the cards he "thought" were red into a different pile and at the end all the red ones were in one pile and black ones in the other, and aparently he did it over and over again.

has anyone heard of this trick? know its name, know where i can view the trick, possible learn it. <-- i really dount it, lol

It's called Out of this World. It's a popular card trick with many many different versions. Darwin Ortiz (I think) has a version, Derren Brown, Luke Jermay, Ellusionist... it's a pretty standard trick. I would look into Darwin Ortiz and Derren Brown's handling- they're both experts at misdirection and designing of effects.

That political leader would be Winston Churchill

The original handling can be found in the relatively inexpensive "Magician's Magic by Paul Curry" (its creator).

The versions I prefer nowadays are "Order This World by Tom Salinsky" and "Offworld by David Britland"... but you're probably going to get lots of different names thrown at you so I suggest checking out the original in said book and taking it from there.

after learning a load of variations, I still prefer the original. I have good explanations for switching piles, e.t.c, so why fix what isn't broken?

I even performed this in an oral english exam at gcse with a story...got me an A

The originals are nearly always the best, obviously its great to see tricks evolve and be improved. But I feel it is sometimes important to have a look at the original.

A while ago I downloaded triumph of Penguin (I know ) and it had triple lifts, 4 cards turned up and all this other jazz. Later I found Dai Vernon's original and all it requires is a F riffle shuffle. Simple and effective but gets the same reactions.

Churchill, thank you, and thank you for the info.