Mind reading website, how does it work.

[pmcd9]

David Copperfield's Mind Reading Card Trick

Someone please explain how this works.

~Paul

[V-Adore]

All I'm going to say on this:

Watch closely on the cards he offers you vs. the cards later on. Check the suits. Double-check.

(This one's pretty easy, all told.)

[pmcd9]

Ah yes.  Thank you, that is simple once you realize the trick.

~Paul

[slink]

Ugh. You didn't say that taking a look at it involved his smugly face!

And I can already tell, given it's JQ of one suit of each colour, and K of the other suit of each colour. Very random...

[St_Zartan]

Ugh. You didn't say that taking a look at it involved his smugly face!

Shameful that oh aren't I so very mysterious twats like David Copperfield are famous for what amounts to a series of product placements and publicity stunts, while a genius like Ricky Jay continues to work in relative obscurity.

[CortJstr]

At least it's not like the Michael Jackson voodoo trick or any of the many tricks involving the instruction "now multiply your number by 9"

[slink]

while a genius like Ricky Jay continues to work in relative obscurity.

Don't know this guy. I'll take a look.
Meanwhile, The Amazing Johnathan is good.
Signed t-shirts are great when they're also coated in fake blood!

[pmcd9]

Ugh. You didn't say that taking a look at it involved his smugly face!

Shameful that oh aren't I so very mysterious twats like David Copperfield are famous for what amounts to a series of product placements and publicity stunts, while a genius like Ricky Jay continues to work in relative obscurity.

I wish I had taken a few minutes to think about this trick before I posted.  When memory kicked in I realized I had actually seen this before on another website.  Yes it's a shame that a genius like Ricky Jay gets little attention and a fraud like Copperfield gets fame, money, and supermodels.

~Paul

[pmcd9]

I'm adding smugly to my lexicon.

~Paul

[AlohaDawg]

I have a friend who is a professional illusionist. He does the big illusions and escapes. I don't think Copperfield is really a fraud; I think it's all about science and psychology. Add a little showmanship and VOILA'! It's "magic".

It's showbiz, no more or less. I think it's pretty cool and I love seeing new twists on the genre (Copperfield flying around was pretty damn cool no matter how you feel about him).

I think sitting in a plastic box for however long with only water to drink is more fraudulent than anything anyone from Houdini to Doug Henning to Copperfield has done. Passing that off as entertainment or some kind of test is just plain stupid to me. (Didn't I read a Kafka book about this same thing??) What's next? will he set himself on fire? Stand on the bottom of the Ocean for a month? A publicity stunt for it's own sake just plain smells. At least stage illusionists create something entertaining on it's own merits.

[pmcd9]

Yes David Blaine is the biggest fraud of the all, but didn't Coppafeel make the Statue of Liberty disappear?  I call that bull shit.

~Paul

[Pedro Picasso]

To paraphrase Family Guy, the chain goes:

Legitimate Theatre
Musical Theatre
Movies
Television
Mime
Stage Magic

The only form of entertainment lower than card tricks is streaking.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I dunno, I'd rank mime lower.  I'd rather see Siegried & Roy than Shields & Yarnell any time.

[Pedro Picasso]

I always thought of Sigfreid and Roy as more of a two-man circus act.  Kind of the same way Pen and Teller are a comedy show and not really a magic act.  Of course, I've never seen a whole act from either team, so I'm not the authority here.  I'm just a guy who doesn't like magicians.

[St_Zartan]

Yes David Blaine is the biggest fraud of the all, but didn't Coppafeel make the Statue of Liberty disappear?  I call that bullshit.

Long story short: the audience was on a revolving platform. Curtains go up, lights go off, audience is straight up facing another direction when curtains are drawn, and oooooh it's gone. You know what the most magical thing of all is? TURNING YOUR HEAD SLIGHTLY

The only form of entertainment lower than card tricks is streaking.

As much as I love Family Guy, good stage magic rocks. I have a weird, almost unnatural love for sleight-of-hand - probably more so because I know that I could never, ever do it myself. If you read about some of the amazing shit Ricky Jay can do with cards, you'll quickly be singing another tune. Piercing the skin of a fuck*ng watermelon with a thrown card? CHECK

EDIT: Second rad example:

New Yorker[/i]"]When he had performed several dazzling illusions and seemed ready to retire, a guest named Mort said, "Come on, Ricky. Why don't you do something truly amazing?"

Baron recalls that at that moment "the look in Ricky's eyes was, like, `Mort- you have just fucked with the wrong person.' "

Jay told Mort to name a card, any card. Mort said, "The three of hearts." After shuffling, Jay gripped the deck in the palm of his right hand and sprung it, cascading all fifty-two cards so that they travelled the length of the table and pelted an open wine bottle.

"O.K., Mort, what was your card again?"

"The three of hearts."

"Look inside the bottle."

Mort discovered, curled inside the neck, the three of hearts.