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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