New Member, Bill Murray performed a Paul Gordon trick where the spectator’s card was determined by a “lie detector” machine made up of a packet of cards. The performer could tell the truth or like, and the cards revealed the truth as well as the chosen card.
James “JR” Russell, performed a very nice triumph routine that included a pretty card flourish (Ballet cut). JR also performed a quick coin disappearance and was kind enough to give everyone at the meeting the means to perform the same coin trick.
Chuck Kleiner performed an interesting routine using a poster board that continually changed showing different pictures and items each time he turned or moved the board that highlighted his “sales pitch”
Mark Paulson performed a Dan Harlan mentalist effect where the spectators choose four parts of mixed up torn pictures of famous people. When the four pieces were put together the picture of Lincoln matched the prediction that Mark had in an envelope; a Penny!
Dan Kennedy performed a card prediction trick from Genii magazine (Feb – May 2006) where he had the spectator deal cards face up to a stopping point of a single face down card. The spectator spread the rest of the cards face up and Dan produced a printed picture of the spread, including the face down card selected.
Larry Dimmitt did a nice mentalism routine where he had four participants take a quarter of a shuffled deck of cards and he was able to divine which person had each card.
Hugh Castell performed a very nice card routine where the faces of the cards would change and backs of the cards changed to multiple different backs, with a climax of the entire deck changing color. Hugh’s card work has really been nice.
John Cameron performed a great card trick where he started with blank backed cards and he would rub the cards together and the printing from one card would transfer to the other so various cards would have different front and backs. The climax of the trick was when he pressed one card to his shirt and the card’s back had the same pattern as his shirt.
Roger Sylwester performed a three card monte routine from Jack Carpenter using Aces, and Queens where the Aces end up turning to jokers and the Queen disappears and returns to the deck.