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hello... i recently bought an amazing effect called '357' by tom lauten but performed and explained by the wonderful characters - peter nardi and marc spelmann.

but im having difficulty with constructing an interesting eliminating sequence of the 6 cards. obviously on the dvd both marc and peter have their own elimination sequence which is fine, but i didnt really find theirs interesting enough for me to perform if you understand?

heres where i am up to now - i think ive got something in mind to eliminate the last envelope, in which i will have 2 remaining envelopes on the table after the other 4 have been eliminated and i ask the spectator to check which one has the 'bang' card inside while im turned away.then i face them again (and here i wanted to do a type of bluffing scenario) i tell them that i want them to tell me which card is in which envelope and that they can either lie and be truthful, but remember that your playing for all that money that ive put down on the table ( i supose this could be done with 3 remaining envelopes)

but yeah, this is the lines i was thinking.one thing that they did on the performance of the dvd which i dont want to incorporate was, at some points marc would hover his hand over the envelopes, as if he had somekind of pshychic sense of which envelope contained what.something along the jist of that. i want to make my routine a game of chance and luck.

if you guys can help by giving me ideas and suggestions then i would be really grateful. im hoping to perfrom this effect next weekend.
thankyou.

(I apologise if this isn't at all helpful, but I don't know the working of the trick)

Can you not just use a magician's choice? Docc Hilford has a great booklet called 'E'Voque' (I think it's spelt like that) which has some great advice on it.

Or, if you've got Get Nyman, there's a nice envelope force in one of his routines.

it isnt really a force of the envelopes.as you know what envelope you need to keep throughout, im just finding an excuse why im getting rid of the other envelopes.

My first choice reading the post would be either the Equivoque or PATEO.