Behind That Door!

Effect

You begin this effect by having the medium leave the room. Have her hide in an adjoining room with the door closed, and play this fact up. As soon as she has left, bring out a deck of cards, shuffle them, and then have a spectator cut the cards and replace the cut. Then with the deck face down before him, a spectator cuts off any number of cards up to half the deck.

Without looking at it, he places the bottom card of his cut-off portion in his pocket, keeping the rest of the packet himself. The performer, with the half deck remaining, goes to spectator number two who also cuts off a portion. This person, however, looks at the bottom card of his heap and then shuffles it into the packet he holds, along with those the performer has left.

Leaving him to his shuffling, the performer has a word chosen in a dictionary, a spectator riming through and stopping anywhere at all. Next someone names a color. Then any spectator takes the shuffled half deck of cards to the medium and passes it to her through the slightly opened door.

Within a short while the medium comes back. She carries the card that was shuffled into the deck and on its face is written the name of the chosen color, the word in the dictionary, and the name of the card the spectator has in his pocket which, as yet, no one has looked at!