In the beggining of this special, david held a deck or card in front of the camera and told the viewers to remember one card as he rapidly flipped every card, and then he ACTUALLY took out the card i was thinking about! how the hell!?!??!
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omg my friend says that happened to her!
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Its not that complicated. Im going to assume 99% of people that watch that sequence will always see the card he wanted you to see. This is done by leaving up that card for a fraction of a second more then the other cards (so every card is a blur except the specific card). Then all that is needed is a simple "snap change" technique at the end to finish up the trick.
shareit's a common sleight of hand move i use and other magicians use.
share"Cydonia143 replied Oct 29, 2006
Its not that complicated. Im going to assume 99% of people that watch that sequence will always see the card he wanted you to see. This is done by leaving up that card for a fraction of a second more then the other cards (so every card is a blur except the specific card)"
Quite late to the forum, even to this David Blaine special shown in 1997..but a slow motion replay of that stunt reveals 'Queen of Spades' is the focus card and is, indeed flashed a fraction longer in the blur of cards.
As to the rest of Blaine's street magic, I haven't a clue!
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Was it a black ace of kings u saw?
shareNo... it was a red "ACE" of kings ;-)
Not sure what kind of card decks you use, but last time I checked, aces were always black.
The one that got me was when he asked the guy to pick a number between 1 and 50. Both numbers should be odd numbers and both numbers should be different. So the number I thought of was 37. A few seconds later, David Blaine says "37". I couldn't believe it.
shareI think this probably is the most frequent result -- if there have to be two digits, both odd, both different 1 to 50: everything 1 - 9 out; also 11 and 33; also all in 20's or 40's.
So this just leaves choices among 13, 15, 17, 19, 31, 35, 37 and 39. He's really presenting a choice of eight numbers among the fifty.
In most choices within a number range, usually start guess in middle area, human nature. Probably most would automatically start around 25, realize immediately in even area, move to 30's. Would seem 35, 37, 39, could be about equal, but on second thought there just seems 37 more likely choice, because between 35 & 39. All happens in just a few seconds - but looks like thought sequence would make it most likely.
It seems also, that when folks pick a 2-digit number, however big the range, and whether restricted in some fashion like this one, normal tendency is also to pick one where secong digit is the larger.
The guy still does clever stuff. I like his close-up things better than the stunts, and enjoy his low-key, almoce laconic style.
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Aces are always black??
sharethe card i saw while just watching was a four of hearts.
so is it different for every person watching it?
that really got me, im amazed!