http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/2005/05/08/30/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:37:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/2005/05/08/30/comment-page-1/#comment-74690 Monica Allen Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:16:10 +0000 http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/?p=30#comment-74690 That was Awesome!! here's a video I found about a simple card trick: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/703549/how_to_change_your_card_to_win/ That was Awesome!!
here’s a video I found about a simple card trick: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/703549/how_to_change_your_card_to_win/

]]> http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/2005/05/08/30/comment-page-1/#comment-24117 card tricks Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:57:49 +0000 http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/?p=30#comment-24117 This really helped me. I am very intrigued by this concept. Besides the obvious, how might a mentalist use this method in an effect? I have thought of perhaps doing the Kruskal Count on a deck of shuffled and randomly mixed cards before an effect so that I know in advance what card the spectator will stop on when they do the Kruskal Count themselves using the ordinary method. This would be a good mind-reading effect (i.e. having them concentrate on the card they stopped on). However, this does not allow the deck to be shuffled prior to them doing their Kruskal Count. I know that the mentalist can just "follow along" with his/her own Kruskal Count as the spectator does theirs, but I think it would be more effective for the mentalist to have done his/her Count beforehand. Also, if the mentalist did their Count beforehand, they could turn their back, leave the room, etc while the spectator does theirs. This really helped me. I am very intrigued by this concept. Besides the obvious, how might a mentalist use this method in an effect? I have thought of perhaps doing the Kruskal Count on a deck of shuffled and randomly mixed cards before an effect so that I know in advance what card the spectator will stop on when they do the Kruskal Count themselves using the ordinary method. This would be a good mind-reading effect (i.e. having them concentrate on the card they stopped on). However, this does not allow the deck to be shuffled prior to them doing their Kruskal Count. I know that the mentalist can just “follow along” with his/her own Kruskal Count as the spectator does theirs, but I think it would be more effective for the mentalist to have done his/her Count beforehand. Also, if the mentalist did their Count beforehand, they could turn their back, leave the room, etc while the spectator does theirs.

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