For many years, the Wiz Kids have been
performing this great trick exactly the way it was taught to
early members of the Wiz Kids who attended one of Karrell
Fox’s lectures in 1985. They passed it down to succeeding
generations of Wiz Kids, and Wiz Kid Director Fred (Uncle Fred to
me!) thought I might like to perform it at a show that I was
preparing for. I made some slight changes... like showing the
card and signing the card before it disappears from the deck to
appear underneath the spectator... in fact, Grandpa Spellbinder
told me I had come up with a whole new variation. So I had to sit
down and dictate the whole thing to him while he wrote it up for
this issue of The Wizards' Journal. I hope you like it and make
it (it's very easy to make) and find a use for it in your shows.
Effect:
I show the audience some other card trick and
when it is over, I tell them: “That was nothing! Would you
like to see the world’s greatest card trick? (Yes!) It just
so happens that we have in our audience today the world’s
greatest card magician! Please welcome her with a great big round
of applause.”
“Come right up here, (Name). Everyone is so
surprised. They never knew that you are the world’s greatest
card magician. You are the world’s greatest card
magician, aren’t you? Of course you are! Don’t worry,
I’ll help you out if you get stuck. I’ll be your
beautiful assistant!”
Following the directions given to her by the
magician, the "world's greatest card magician" shuffles
a deck of cards, has a bunch of cards selected, and from that
bunch has one card chosen. This card is shown to the audience and
signed. The card is then put back into the bunch and the
"world's greatest card magician" proceeds to make it
completely disappear from the pack, although she hasn't the
slightest idea how it's done. When asked to reveal her secret,
she finds, to her (and the audience's) amazement that she has
been sitting on the signed card the whole time.
