Calculated Discovery

Effect: You remove cards from your pocket to the value of a chosen card.
Secret: Put the Ace of Clubs, Two of Hearts, Four of Spades and Eight of Diamonds in your pocket. Have
the pack shuffled then put it in your pocket.
Ask someone to name a card. The four cards you hid can represent any card. For the Six of Clubs you take
out the Four and the Two to make six and the Ace to show Clubs. For the Queen of Diamonds take the Eight
and the Four to make 12 and point to the Eight of Diamonds and so on.

A Capital Prediction

Effect: Acapital city is chosen. Inside an envelope which has been on full view is a paper naming the city selected.
Secret: Write a capital city on a piece of paper and seal it in an envelope.
Capital cities are called and you write them down on slips of paper which are folded and dropped into a box.
In fact you write the same name on every slip – the name of the city in the sealed enveloped.
Someone picks a slip and calls out the chosen city. The envelope is opened to show you knew which city would be chosen.

That's Torn It!

Effect: A coin is wrapped in paper. You then tear up the paper – the coin has disappeared!
Secret: Place the coin on the paper, just above the centre. Fold the top portion of paper down over the coin.
Fold the right side of the paper around to the back. Do the same with the left side.
Lastly, fold the bottom portion back. This procedure leaves the bottom edge of the packet open. Hold the
paper in your hand and allow the coin to slip secretly into your hand. Tear up the paper and the coin seems to
have vanished.

Indestructible Handkerchief

Effect: A large safety pin is pulled through a handkerchief without tearing it.
Secret: Ask someone to hold a handkerchief out taut. Push a safety pin through the material, near the edge
of the handkerchief. Hold the pin by the tail end and turn it towards yourself. Now pull the pin to the right.
When you stop, push the pin forward so it goes back through the material. You have moved the pin from one
place to another without tearing the handkerchief. What actually happens is that the material runs between
the bar and the head of the pin.

Marvellous Memory

Effect: You appear to memorise the order of a pack of cards.
Secret: Cut a small hole in the bottom right corner of your card case.
Ask someone to shuffle the cards and hand them back to you. Look through the cards quickly, then place
them in the case. Hold the case in front of you and you will see the index of the first card through the hole.
Name this card and pull it from the case. Do the same with a few more until you think you have proved that
you really did memorise the order of the cards.