Peter Duffie – Open Secrets

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Psychography: Begin by placing a card face down between a spectator’s hands, claiming it’s a spirit photograph yet to be captured. Another spectator freely chooses a card from the deck and signs it. This card is then lost in the deck, which you hand to a spectator. You reveal two blank cards from your pocket, stating they are photographic plates, and place them between the spectator’s palms with the spirit card. After building suspense, the spectator turns over the top and bottom cards to find them blank. Finally, they reveal the initial card, now transformed into their signed selection.

Directorial: A spectator picks a card, which is returned to the deck. You display the four Aces and place the deck on the table. As you demonstrate how the Aces can magically turn face up, one Ace remains face down, matching the suit of the selected card. You place this Ace on the table, toss the upper half of the deck, and reveal the face-up card is the Ace you just set down. The card on the table is ultimately shown to be the spectator’s selection.

Distinct: After performing a quick coin effect, you make a chalk mark disappear from between two coins and reappear on a spectator’s palm.

Oversiter: A spectator counts out 8 cards for themselves and you. After confirming both have 8 cards, you magically cause 2 cards to transfer from your packet to theirs. When you count 6 cards onto the table, the spectator discovers they now hold 10 cards.

Flouncing: Using only the four Aces and four Kings, you place the Kings in your pocket and hold the Aces. You show the Aces, claiming they will switch places with the Kings. Instantly, one Ace transforms into the King of Clubs. To prove the transposition, you reveal the Ace of Clubs from your pocket. As the audience grasps the effect, you change the remaining Aces into the other Kings and produce the three Aces from your pocket.

Hilarry: Place half the deck on the table and insert the two black Jacks face up into this section. A card is selected from the other half. When you spread the tabled half, the two face-up Jacks are visible, with a face-down card trapped between them, which turns out to be the selected card.

Sametric: A spectator selects a card, which is lost in the deck. Another spectator shuffles half the deck while you shuffle the rest. Both of you attempt to find the selected card. After revealing your top cards, neither is the selection. You bury your cards in each other’s sections and reassemble the deck. Finally, you spread the cards to reveal the selection face up in the center, flanked by the previously shown cards.

Swatta: A spectator selects a card from a packet. You cut the deck and reveal an Ace, asking if their selection was an Ace. When they confirm it wasn’t, you make the Ace vanish. This process repeats until all four Aces have been produced and vanished. Finally, the spectator turns their card over, which might be the King of Clubs, and waves it over the deck. When you spread the cards, the four Aces are face up in the center, surrounded by three face-down cards, which are the other Kings!

Jaxaphonic: After a card is selected and returned to the deck, you remove the four Jacks and allow the spectator to shuffle the deck. They cut half the deck, and you place the four Jacks face down on the bottom portion before they cover them with the upper half. After snapping your fingers, you spread the cards to reveal the four Jacks face up, with one face-down card in the middle—this card is the selected one.

Habitutonic: From a shuffled deck, you remove two cards as a prediction for suit and value. A spectator eliminates portions of the deck until they arrive at one card, which matches your prediction perfectly.

Prodection: You introduce a deck of cards and ask a spectator to name any card, such as the Nine of Clubs. You remove that card from the deck and set the rest aside. From your pocket, you produce a card, declaring it a Negative Prediction. You demonstrate the differences: the named card is black, yours is red; the named card is odd, yours is even; the named card is high, yours is low. Then, you reveal the back of your card, boldly stating, “That was the negative side; here’s the positive side,” showing the Nine of Clubs!