Ru­biales Pre­mon­i­tion

Whilst watch­ing the ex­plan­a­tion of Ru­biales’ geni­us ‘Blind­side Deck’, this idea oc­curred to me. You might find it in­ter­est­ing to play around with.

The BSD is set-up as fol­lows: 26 cards from Ed­die Joseph­’s Pre­mon­i­tion deck (bank 1), 26 cards (bank 2).

A blue deck set-up with 51 cards (Pre­mon­i­tion): 2 x 26 cards (bank 2), minus one card. If spec­tat­or thinks of one of the 26 cards of the bank 1 of the BSD, then this card will be miss­ing in the blue pack. Spec­tat­or counts cards singly through the blue deck, and ar­rives only at the 51 cards, the men­tally se­lec­ted card not show­ing up.

Per­form­ance

Show the two decks. Let spec­tat­or choose one (ma­gi­cian’s force the BSD). Spread cards to show them to be com­plete (all reg­u­lar in­dices are shown). Split cards in the middle, turn the up­per half (bank 1) and shuffle into lower half. All cards of bank 1 will be re­versed. Fan cards for spec­tat­or to men­tally se­lect ‘any’ card and not name it. Due to the BSD, he can only se­lec­ted one card from bank 1, but the se­lec­tion cri­ter­ia seems to be in­cred­ibly fair and open. Stun­ning!

Let him take blue deck and re­move it from the case. He deals the cards face-up onto the table and is asked to re­mem­ber which num­ber his thought of cards falls to. Of course, the thought of card is the only one miss­ing and there are only 51 cards.

Pro­duce the thought of card from pock­et in­dex, as in Pre­mon­i­tion.

Have fun and get this mar­vel­lous ‘Blind­side Deck’. Thank you Juan Ru­biales for a won­der­ful tool!

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