Ed Loveland started off the evening by showing us an antique telegraph key, some old documents and photos of the Titanic. Ed showed Jim Earnshaw and Dan Kennedy a group of photos of people who either survived or died during the sinking of the Titanic. Using their intuition, Jim and Dan either selected or rejected the photos they were shown. In the end, Dan had picked all the survivors, and Jim had all the victims.
Larry Dimmitt asked Hugh Castell to think of a city. Hugh wrote the city’s name on a card, and Larry was able to determine the name of the city which Hugh was thinking of. For his next effect, Larry had five members stand against a wall and had each of them put a personal object in small white boxes, which were then mixed up. Larry was able to match the objects with the owners.
Ed was up again. This time, he brought out a black velvet bag containing four white stones and one black stone. He passed the bag around until five people each held a stone. Ed eliminated the people who were holding white stones until there were just two left. Then he was able to divine who held the black stone.
Dan Kennedy performed Ring of Truth with Ken Marsh and Mark Paulson. Dan was able to tell that between Ken and Mark, it was Mark who held his ring.
Hugh Castell performed a very entertaining version of Sympathetic Cards by Paul Vigil. It had several phases, involved many people, and ended with ten cards making up a phone number, which when dialed, ended in an unusual cell phone call.
Jim Earnshaw showed us a cool coin trick in which two half dollars became one, and then Jim snapped them apart again.
Mark Paulson brought out a deck of cards and an envelope and then had Hugh look at a random card from his deck. Then Mark reached into his pocket and took out four imaginary magic markers, each a different color. He asked Hugh to imagine the card in front of him, choose one of the pretend markers, and draw a simple shape on it. After this was done, Mark revealed what was in his envelope: a nine of diamonds with a red triangle drawn on it, exactly as Hugh had imagined (Jay Sankey’s Just Imagine).