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Effect

A Mystic Discovery

Harlan Tarbell · The Tarbell Course, 1926

Time
7 min read + 10 min practice
Materials
In the library
Prerequisites
None

Another ingenious mental effect with cards.

Performer has a deck of cards thoroughly shuffled by a spectator and has him select a card and place it in his pocket. Another spectator takes the deck and also selects a card and keeps it. Magician now takes from his pocket a watch chain. The first spectator is asked to hold the free end of it, and the Magician then tells him the name of his card. The second spectator then holds the watch chain and is also told the name of the card he selected.

How it is done

The method, 3 drawings and all it needs, inside the library.

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