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Hi,

I have just post a hello in the Introductions page, but hope it's ok to jump straight in with a question.

I was practicing a routine earlier today with my daughter as the spectator, using a svengali deck (I'm learning from the International Magic 'Close Up' DVD). The master card is the 2 Clubs. After a few effects, using the master card, I thought I'd neatly swapped to my stripper deck without her noticing, ready to try some new ones.

She picked a card from the deck, and started laughing. As luck would have it, she'd now pulled the 2 Clubs from the new deck quite by chance. It was funny, but of course, it looked extremely suspicious. She didn't know I'd swapped decks, but it then made her think that the deck was fixed.

This threw me, as I realised I didn't have a way of either disarming her suspicion (I suppose I could let her examine the new deck, with a small risk, to show her there was only one 2 clubs), or better still, of making some capital on this unusual occurrence.

I suppose it has to occur roughly one-in-fifty times you'd perform a routine like this. Does anyone have any advice what to do when it does happen?

Jonathan

Take advantage of it!

Act as if that was the plan all along and just ask them to take another card.

A spec would never notice a stripper deck so you could alwas hand it out. Failing that, ribbon spreading it to show the index's are all different usually will suffice.

Force the second card?

Ask if she's happy with that randomly selected card - if not take it from her, put it back and ask her to pick another at random.

JonathanR wrote:Hi,

She picked a card from the deck, and started laughing. As luck would have it, she'd now pulled the 2 Clubs from the new deck quite by chance. It was funny, but of course, it looked extremely suspicious. She didn't know I'd swapped decks, but it then made her think that the deck was fixed.

This threw me, as I realised I didn't have a way of either disarming her suspicion (I suppose I could let her examine the new deck, with a small risk, to show her there was only one 2 clubs), or better still, of making some capital on this unusual occurrence.

Jonathan

Your second paragraph answers your own question? I'm confused as to why you need anything else?

Thanks for the responses so far.

To answer jdmagic357's question, I was just wondering if there was a more elegant way of dealing with the situation - or developing the connection somehow? In the end, I did just show her the deck contained only one 2 Clubs, changed the card and carried on...

Jonathan

Take the 2 of clubs out of the regular deck before you start performing.

Hi John, you have nothing to worry about, hehe, yes this will happen. But it's nothing to worry about, in fact to your spectators eyes it just looks like another brilliant piece of magic that you have performed. I echo exactly what V.E Day has already said, simply ask if they are happy or if they would like a different one. Keep on going, you're about to have a tremendous amount of fun with the stripper deck as you can do so much fun stuff with it.