by daleshrimpton » Apr 16th, '04, 13:21
you might find it worthwhile sitting down and working out why you need to know all these forces.
In most cases, the riffle force, the clasic force, and ( my personal fave) the cut deeper force is enough. In a programe of card effects, you shold not make every single effect a " pick a card" effect, because there are only so many ways in which you could make the reveal entertaining.
You might look at Daryls card revelation dvd, to see most of the good practical versions.
It is possibly better for you to have a free choice made, and then by using either a cull, bottom placement, of pass, get that card to where you can use it, or better yet, get a couple of decent peeks under your belt, and leave the thing where it is.
At least that way, there is nothing to go wrong. No force is 100% unless you use a forcng deck of some kind.
Eliminate that worry from the routine, and you have more time to concentrate on presentation.