Top Deck by Lewis Jones

Description

Almost all the effects use playing cards.

 No chance. A guessing game, using six cards to decide who will pay for the next round, (Free drinks for you – guaranteed).Birthday bonanza. Spectators freely contribute numbers, and find they have predicted someone’s year of birth.Avalanche. Someone merely thinks of a card, and you find it in a deck of cards that have blank backs and faces.Charlie the cheat. Two spectators join you in a poker game in which they make all the decisions. But guess who wins.One good card deserves another. Two spectators each think of a card. One thought-of card finds the other.Cut and bury. You divine a spectator’s thought-of card, and he divines yours.Spots. Anyone chooses a card value, and mentally adds any colour and suit. A card of that same suit and value immediately appears in an unexpected place.Pals. Is you bosom pal really just right for you? The cards will tell.Seeing red. How to separate out the red cards without seeing their faces.Stacked in favour. Memorising the Stebbins stack.Team work. The spectators do a card trick for you.A creditable prediction. Jack London’s Almost Real Prediction becomes real.

10 x 7 inches (246 x 175 mm) softback, with full-colour cover
86 pages, with photographic illustrations

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