Azlan is a completely hands off “Card at AnyNumber” effect utilizing a standard deck that caneven be borrowed by the performer.The performer hands the spectator a deck of cards.The spectator shuffles the deck.Then, holding the deck towards themselves so thatthe performer cannot see anything, the spectatorchecks through the faces of the cards to ensure eachand every one in the deck is different, taking out anyJokers that may be left in the deck in the process.They immediately place the deck face down on to thetable in front of them. The deck remains untouchedby the performer from this point onwards.Now that everything appears to be fair and aboveboard, the performer proposes to show the spectatorthe difference between them trusting their intuitionand just guessing. Accordingly, the spectator makes a guess on whichcard they think is at a random position in the deck.Then, they use their intuition to somehow know atwhat number (position) a card, currently unknown tothem, resides at within the deck. Now comes theproof.First, they deal to the random number and are shownthat the card they named via guess work does notreside at that position, proving that when theysimply guess, they’re likely to be wrong.Then they pick up all of the cards, being careful notto change their order, and deal to the number theyintuitively called out before.Amazingly, the card dealt to – using nothing buttheir own intuition – matches your predictionperfectly!This prediction can be written down ahead of timeand even before the deck is handed to the spectator to shuffle. Alternatively, the prediction can be aduplicate card with a different colour back, placedinside a single envelope that is handed to yourspectator before you begin the effect.It really is this clean and impossible looking.NO gimmicksNO stacks or difficult sleight of handNO language re-frames or dual realityNO short cards or cutting of the deck!Easy to learn and easy to perform!I am pleased to say this effect has fooled a few ofmy close friends in magic.In fact, it even fooled me when I went back andwatched an older performance video of this that Ihad recorded as a note to myself. Quotes:“This is great! It’s so clean” – Peter Turner