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I've found this trick on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz6Q-o2sg4o

It's very easy to do and unfortunately very, very easy to get busted. I've shown it to some friends and minute leater they knew what was going on.
So i've changed it.

1. the spectator holds/shuffes cards
2. he/she spreads the deck face up on the table so all the cards can be seen
3. while this i do not look. i tell them about lest weeks i've spent learning the system that allows me to remember a whole deck of cards in few seconds and ask them to check how much time it will take me to do it
4. on a command they start the clock and i look at the deck for few seconds, making remembering faces. when I'm done they put the deck together face down on the table
5. the rest is the same as in the movie[/i]

Most easy tricks (i dont now the hard ones yet ) can be prepared that way.

You should also check Harry Lorayne's Epitome location.

I do a similar effect but what I do is shuffle the cards over and over until they tell me to stop, I riffle the cards they tell me to stop on any card I stop give them the card then tell them to hold onto it.

I banter with them abit saying I have been able to remember every single card in a deck in every single order so I hand the deck to them and tell them to keep there card out but shuffle it as much as they want.

I riffle through the deck facing me, then reveal the card.

Its a very simple and easy effect but best thing about it I have been increasing the deck too two decks so it is more unlikely you will find it.

Tim LeStrange

though, if you do it with two decks, technically you're giving yourself two chances at finding their card...

Not really as the spectator only picks one card so there will only be one card missing from two decks... so each card will have a double except 1.

it goes from a 1:52 chance to a 1:104 chance

Close has something similar to this with a memorized stack. There's a fair amount of headwork involved, though. It's called The Guatemalan Miracle.

Or just false shuffle/deck switch to a Sy Stebbins setup

I am constantly amazed how many seemingly 'observant' laypeople miss a deck swicth - it makes me feel bad doing it sometimes!

Sean

For mine you don't need a good memory or the sy stebbins set up.

TLS

By the way, there is also way to really memorize whole deck.
Fast reading helps but isn't necessary.
You start with, lets say 5-10 cards (cos' this is the average number anyone can memorize without preparation) and then as you get better you add more and more.
Needs time and a lot of work but i think i don't have to explain how usefull this can be.

I too perform a pseudo deck memorisation effect. In mine a deck of cards is shuffled (genuinly), and a card is selected, remembered and returned. The deck is once again genuinly shuffled. The cards are spread face up on the table as i look away, and the person who chose the card is asked to look over the cards and make sure the card is there and everything is as it should be. I then look over the cards slowly (while still tabled) from my right to left - i do not actually mention that i am 'memorising' the cards. The cards are gathered and neatly squared face down on the table. The spectator names their card and i feign a little concentration before telling them the exact location of the card (lets say its the 20th card down). I then reach over and cut exactly 19 cards which are spread and counted. The top card of the tabled portion (the 20th card) is turned over, it is the chosen card. It always goes down well and has the appearance of requiring alot of skill, yet is actually quite simple to perform. jim

Sounds like a good one Jim.

TLS