Idiot’s Key Card

The idiot is me, by the way. Because I repeat­ed­ly for­get in Vernon’s great trick ‘Emo­tion­al Reac­tion’ with the key card (see Inner Secrets of Card Mag­ic), whether the card on the left or the card on the right is the spectator’s cho­sen card. I sim­pli­fied the thing already by using a dou­ble-backed card as the key card (because I tend to for­get the key cards as well). See the arti­cle here. Maybe you like the addi­tion.

I marked the dou­ble-backer on both sides. In this case, I used the bone cards and shaped the bones so they point to the right (on both sides of the card). But, of course, you can think of a prop­er mark­ing for any back. That way, when I fan the cards, I see the dou­ble-backer (= key card) and I see which card is the spectator’s, because the mark­ing is point­ing out to me which one of the two it is.

I know, this seems stu­pid, but then I am stu­pid some­times, espe­cial­ly when doing that key card stuff. If you are not as stu­pid as me and can remem­ber and spot things in per­for­mance, then you can per­form with­out that dou­ble-backer and do it with a bor­rowed deck of cards …

Pass it on!