Abra-Card-Abra by Nick Trost

From Nick Trost’s wonderful Card Magic of Nick Trost and Precursor X (January, 1986). This trick was inspired by Dai Vernon’s “Do as I Do,” which appeared in Hilliard’s Greater Magic (1938).

Effect: The performer hands a packet ofred-backed cards to a spectator while he holds a packet ofblue-backed cards. The spectator hands the performer any red-backed card, and the performer gives the spectator one ofhis blue-backed cards. When the selected cards are shown, they match. “Many people imagine that all the cards are the same,” the performer remarks. “Well, they are.” With that, he turns
over both packets, showing all jokers.

All cards are examinable.

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