mind two

Mind-Two  by Aldo Colombini The original idea belongs to Howard Adams and appeared in his book Oicufesp, Vol . 2 and it was named Thinkcard. Thinkcard. I have slightly changed the handling and found two  ways to produce the two selected cards.  EFFECT:  You reveal two selected cards! METHOD:  Remove (or have removed) any five cards (or simply ask someone to remove any Ro yal Flush). The spectator shuffles these five cards. Let s call this spectator A. Turn your head away. Holding the packet face down, spectator A looks at the top card and remembers it (say it is the 10H). Spectator A gives the cards to spectator B who looks at the bottom card of the f ace-down packet and remembers it (say it is the QH). Spectator B mentally spells  his name (or any other name or word of his choice) by moving one card from top to bottom of the packet for each letter of the word.  If his name is Aldo, he will move four cards from top to bottom, one at a time.  Ask him to deal the cards one after the other on the table, thus reversing thei r order. Ask spectator B to pick up the cards and again he mentally spells his s elected word (same one), moving one card for each letter from top to bottom of t he packet (four cards in the example given). Spectator A s card is now on the bott om of the packet and spectator B s card is now on top; this is automatic. The two cards have simply reversed their position from top to bot- tom and vice versa. Y ou will now reveal the cards in two different and magical ways. Pick up the packet and hold it face down in your left hand. Perform a Reverse Fa ro, out- jogging every other card starting with the second. Strip out the two ou t-jogged cards, flip them over and place them on top of the other three cards an d square. Repeat the Reverse Faro, out-jogging every other card (leaving the rev ersed cards in their position). Strip out the out-jogged cards, flip them over a nd place them on top. Repeat the whole procedure, but once flipped over, the two  cards are placed on the bottom. Turn the packet over and spread the cards. One card will be reversed in the middle of the packet.: Spectator A s card.  The other selected card is second from the top. Flip the face-up card face down  and leave it in the middle of the packet (or anywhere you like but leave the ot her selected card second from the top). Hold the packet face down from above in your right hand. The left thumb slides the top card into your left hand. Turn th e right hand palm up and, with your left thumb, slide the top card of the packet  (face up) onto the left-hand card. Turn the right hand palm down again and slid e the top (face-down) card onto the two cards in your left hand. Turn the right hand palm up again and slide the top (face-up) card onto the cards in your left hand. Finally, turn the right hand palm down and place the face-down card below the other cards. Repeat the entire procedure but place the last card face down o n top instead of moving it to the bottom (the selected card is face down in the middle of the otherwise face-up cards). Flip the packet over and ask for the nam e of the other selected card. Spread the packet and only one card is reversed n the middle: Spectator B B s card. NOTE: The revelation of the second card is a procedure created by Doug Edwards