Mastermind 3H (Red Bicycle) by Christopher Kenworthey
Chris Kenworthey's Mastermind (Any Card at Any Number) has been featured by Kreskin on both "The David Letterman Show" and "Live with Regis and Kathy Lee." Many top performers such as Wayne Houchin, Kreskin, etc. have stunned audiences using this powerful weapon in their daily work. Mastermind is now finally available in Bicycle Playing Cards produced by the US Playing Card Company.
Let's look at just a few of the many possibilities...
Here is the crowning achievement in test conditions mentalism! If you were permitted to perform only one effect before your town's local newspaper editor, before a Magic Castle membership audition, or for Grand Prix Competition at FISM, this would be it. Special thanks go to Hiro Hirata for releasing this peerless mind teaser to the magic fraternity.
Every mentalist or magician has the desire to foretell destiny, to look into the future. What follows is an eyewitness account of the extraordinary phenomenon now possible with Mastermind!
On the night of your show, a red-backed deck of cards is freely shown, and a prediction envelope is entrusted to a participant. Each of the cards is absolutely different, and the deck is honestly shuffled and fairly cut. (Note, there are no long or short cards, no roughed cards, no stacked arrangements, no marked cards, no stripped cards, no crimps, no false counts, and no sleight of hand involved whatsoever!) The deck, quite honestly, appears ordinary in every respect. It is openly ribbon-spread face-up on the table, offering a bird's-eye view that each card is in fact different.
Once the participant is satisfied that the cards are thoroughly mixed, they are then ribbon-spread face down, allowing for an uninhibited, free choice of any card. The selection here is immaculately clean. To repeat, any card may be selected! The card the participant slides out of the deck is immediately turned face-up. Let's say it is the two of diamonds. The participant opens the prediction envelope, and inside is a matching two of diamonds! The impossible has just occurred!
Now for the unprecedented test conditions of Mastermind:
1. No forcing procedure of any kind is ever employed! This includes psychological, mathematical, spelling, timing or classic. Just fair, free, and clean.
2. No roughed cards.
3. No duplicate cards relied on.
4. No stacked arrangements.
5. No Himber Wallets or switching of envelopes or cards ever!
6. The prediction card is actually in the envelope. It is the same card removed from the envelope by the participant!
7. Can be done as a test in telepathy between two cities over the telephone.
8. Absolutely no sleight of hand required!
9. No long or short cards employed.
Imagine many other exciting possibilities with Mastermind....
An exceedingly clean selection process as described above is done to the host of your local radio station. Once the card has been selected in the fairest manner as described above, you ask the host to look in the classified ads of the local paper. There is the ad thanking the radio station, giving your contact details, and finishing with the name of the selected card. You have just done a prediction that is captured for all to see, all to remember for years to come.
These are just a few of the many incredible effects possible with Chris Kenworthey's brilliant Mastermind. Now better than ever before... now in Bicycle Playing Cards.
Note: Available in RED Bicycle backs only.
Let's look at just a few of the many possibilities...
Here is the crowning achievement in test conditions mentalism! If you were permitted to perform only one effect before your town's local newspaper editor, before a Magic Castle membership audition, or for Grand Prix Competition at FISM, this would be it. Special thanks go to Hiro Hirata for releasing this peerless mind teaser to the magic fraternity.
Every mentalist or magician has the desire to foretell destiny, to look into the future. What follows is an eyewitness account of the extraordinary phenomenon now possible with Mastermind!
On the night of your show, a red-backed deck of cards is freely shown, and a prediction envelope is entrusted to a participant. Each of the cards is absolutely different, and the deck is honestly shuffled and fairly cut. (Note, there are no long or short cards, no roughed cards, no stacked arrangements, no marked cards, no stripped cards, no crimps, no false counts, and no sleight of hand involved whatsoever!) The deck, quite honestly, appears ordinary in every respect. It is openly ribbon-spread face-up on the table, offering a bird's-eye view that each card is in fact different.
Once the participant is satisfied that the cards are thoroughly mixed, they are then ribbon-spread face down, allowing for an uninhibited, free choice of any card. The selection here is immaculately clean. To repeat, any card may be selected! The card the participant slides out of the deck is immediately turned face-up. Let's say it is the two of diamonds. The participant opens the prediction envelope, and inside is a matching two of diamonds! The impossible has just occurred!
Now for the unprecedented test conditions of Mastermind:
1. No forcing procedure of any kind is ever employed! This includes psychological, mathematical, spelling, timing or classic. Just fair, free, and clean.
2. No roughed cards.
3. No duplicate cards relied on.
4. No stacked arrangements.
5. No Himber Wallets or switching of envelopes or cards ever!
6. The prediction card is actually in the envelope. It is the same card removed from the envelope by the participant!
7. Can be done as a test in telepathy between two cities over the telephone.
8. Absolutely no sleight of hand required!
9. No long or short cards employed.
Imagine many other exciting possibilities with Mastermind....
An exceedingly clean selection process as described above is done to the host of your local radio station. Once the card has been selected in the fairest manner as described above, you ask the host to look in the classified ads of the local paper. There is the ad thanking the radio station, giving your contact details, and finishing with the name of the selected card. You have just done a prediction that is captured for all to see, all to remember for years to come.
These are just a few of the many incredible effects possible with Chris Kenworthey's brilliant Mastermind. Now better than ever before... now in Bicycle Playing Cards.
Note: Available in RED Bicycle backs only.