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Andy Hurst |
www.andyhurstmagic.com |
You tell of how your Uncle Benny was always trying to do tricks, mostly things like pulling coins from behind the ear, pulling his thumb off and tricks with piles of cards you deal endlessly. But the strangest thing about him was how he claimed he would do his best trick after he died and how he always made you promise that you'd help him perform it. Of course you just agreed because he was eccentric and it was a crazy claim. But a year after his death you recieved an envelope. It contains a letter with instructions. A willing participant shuffles a regular deck of cards (may be borrowed), and then follows some simple instructions contained in the letter after deciding on a date that means something to them such as a birthday or anniversay - any date that the magician could not have known in advance. Here's an actual excerpt from the letter... |
The Second to last trick of Dr Uncle Benny It's like a Diary trick with no diary! "Like Heirloom but without the wallet or the outs." - Ryan Matney, USA "I don't care how much it sells for - I want one." - Gregory Stevens, UK "That's really very, very clever." - Peter Clark, South Africa |
The spectator shuffles the deck. The deck may be borrowed. May be repeated with a different outcome. Ideal if doing walk-around and the previous table can look over to the one you're now performing at. No 'off by one' or multiple outs. Easy to do, you'll master this in fifteen minutes or less. Only one photo is in the envelope. The spectator can choose ANY date resulting in a truly random number of cards been dealt. The spectator does the dealing, and looks at the last card dealt themselves. No switches. |
Comes complete with re-sealable envelope, letter from Uncle Benny printed on 200gsm champagne stock, special Uncle Benny photos and five pages of detailed instructions. Use any deck. Price: £12.50 |
Let's imagine their date is in May, the first thing they'd do is deal one card down for each month, so it would be January, February, etc. Then you're going to break down the other digits. If they picked the 14th for instance, then they would deal 1 card and then 4 cards. They'll repeat the same for the year, splitting it into 2 separate digits. So if they said 54 they would split that and deal the appropriate number of cards for each digit. Then they must look at the last card they dealt, put it back and drop the remaining cards on top burying their card into the packet. Get them to do that now. Now let's be clear here, they could have picked any date, if the date they decided on had been a different month or year they'd have ended up on a different card, and I can't know ahead of time the order of the cards - they shuffled them. |
Inside the envelope, which the spectator has been holding onto is one more thing - a photograph. The photo is taken out and the picture is of Uncle Benny holding up a blackboard. On that board is clearly written the name of the card the spectator is thinking of. |