A card is freely chosen, then lost in the deck. The magician then produces the four Aces. Then, after a little "magic interlude" where the four Aces mysteriously switch place, a fifth card appears between them: it is of course the spectator's one!  

Card Technique: This technique allows you to count 4 cards when you are really only showing 2.  

Two cards are chosen and placed aside. The rest of the deck is clearly shuffled face up, face down. The first card chosen is shown, it is for example the 10 of Diamonds. The deck is ribbon-spread: only the diamonds are face up, the other cards are face down; and moreover, they are ranked from Ace to King! When the 10 is inserted in its place in the ribbon, the whole suit is now together! And the craziest thing is that when the second chosen card is shown, which is for example the 7 of Spades, without having touched the deck, when the magician ribbon-spreads it again, the Spades have taken the place of the Diamonds!  

You buy a deck of cards and on opening it, you notice that it is defective: instead of having a back and a face, each card has a face on both sides! Instead of throwing it away, here is THE solution to make good use of it... and perform a real miracle!  

The magician promises to make the audience live an "almost mystical" experience! Three cards are chosen freely, and lost in the deck. The magician declares that he will "hypnotically put the audience to sleep" without anyone noticing it. He then picks three cards at random from the deck, hoping that they are the chosen cards... but none of them are! The three cards are placed in front of each of the three spectators, each of them confirms that it is not his card. The magician then "frees" his audience, who was until then under his "total hypnotic power": the three "wrong" cards are turned over one by one: they are now the good ones! Guaranteed impact!  

Here's Beatles Nervous Breakdown live excerpt from a show by Dominique Duvivier played at Double Fond. Enjoy what you see and if you want to know more you will find this trick elsewhere on the platform in studio version with the explanation and the possibility to buy everything you need for the trick. The perfect mental and small packet trick! Dominique presents a small package, in which there is a card with one of the four Beatles on one side and the four kings on the other. He then asks the spectator to think of one of the four kings. Freely, without forcing of any kind, the chosen king will be the ONLY king face up among the cards face down. Then he shows the other cards that are supposed to be the other kings, but not at all: they are the other three Beatles! The effect is devastating!  

The magician tries to find the four Aces "blindly"; but he fails; but his mistake is not a mistake because these cards were planned; but these "wrong cards" finally change into Aces! And the chosen card that he couldn't find appears... in several duplicates! A series of misunderstandings... which are no longer misunderstandings, thanks to magic!  

Like Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man", you want to show your exceptional instant memorization skills. After thoroughly shuffling your deck of cards, you announce that you have memorized the position of the red and black cards; but in demonstrating this, you fail miserably! But surprise, you say that half of the cards are red-backed, and the other half are black-backed; and that in truth, the cards have been sorted by their backs!!!  

A complete routine with multiple effects, games and comedies with the audience... We start with the Saga of the Aces: they mysteriously travel several times in different ways. Then we end with a kind of game, where the spectator loses repeatedly!  

By deduction, thanks to his intuition, the magician tries to find the chosen card of the spectator. He doesn't succeed at all; but what he does is much stronger!  

5 cards are placed clearly in the shirt pocket at the beginning of the trick. 2 cards are freely chosen, and lost in the deck, which is placed on the table. The magician takes the 5 cards, fans them, and turns the two cards at the ends face up, as well as the one in the center: 3 queens are then revealed; the most extraordinary thing is that the 2 face down cards sandwiched between the 3 queens are the 2 chosen cards!  

The magician shows the four Aces, and twelve indifferent cards (which are the 12 court cards of the deck, to make the contrast as clear as possible). The cards are arranged in four packets: one Ace under each packet, three indifferent cards on top. The Aces magically pass one by one into the leader packet. Each time, the packets of four cards are shown clearly: no extra cards, no missing cards. The trick is completely clean at every stage of the routine. This is as close to perfection as you can get!  

The two red kings are set aside. A card is chosen and lost in the deck. The chosen card first mysteriously turns over in the middle of the deck. This card is then clearly placed between the two red kings: it then disappears and reappears face up in the face-down deck. Everything is handed out for examination! To buy: - a regular deck of cards click here. - a single regular card click here. - a single double-face card click here.  

Two red kings sandwich a freely chosen card. The card dematerializes in the magician’s fingers then reappears face up in the face down deck. A killer!  

The chosen card, signed by a member of the audience, is lost in the deck. Incredible as it may seem, it is the spectator himself who will find his own card in the face down deck! Even more astonishing, the signature as well as the face of the spectator's card will disappear in a very clear way; the card becomes entirely white! To rematerialize this card, simply make a magic pass over the deck and the signed card reappears face up in the middle of the deck. The magician then turns the other cards over and to his amazement, they are now all completely white!  

The spectator and the magician each think of a card. In this new approach to this great classic by Dominique Duvivier, the magician’s card will change the whole deck…