The Chase Today - Magician's Card Trick

[Fanriffic]

Did anyone see The Chase today where one of the contestants did a magic card trick for Bradley?
Does any one know how the trick is done?

He got Brad to shuffle an invisible/imaginary pack of cards then pick a card.
Then the Magician produced the card Brad picked from an actual pack of cards with the choice card facing the other way.
It was very good. Wish I knew how he done it as I like to do card tricks myself but can't figure out how it was done.

[Buenchico]

Does this help?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK2b4CbICYo

[eanceoil]

I seen it, can't open Buenchico's link, but it was brilliant - did the lonk show how it's done?

[ferlew]

It was flipping ace, loved the way he carried it off.

[Jackdaw33]

I have seen the link, it is very clever but complicated. Basically the cards are stacked back to back in a special order. The cards are rough-backed so that this does not show when spreading them. It then works on a system of odds and evens, with the magic total being 13. Clubs and diamonds are odd, hearts and spades even. Thus the 10 of diamonds will be back to back with the 3 of clubs. If someone chooses the 10 of diamonds, then the pack is opened odd numbers up, the key card being the 3 of clubs. The cards are then spread and when the performer finds the 3 of clubs he carefully peels off the card below it, which appears to be the only one upside down, but in reality all the cards are upside down, depending on which way you open the box.

[eanceoil]

but how did he guess the 7 hearts?

[eanceoil]

Forgetting my manners Jackdaw, thanks for the explaination

[Buenchico]

£6 from Amazon:
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[Jackdaw33]

If he guessed the 7 of hearts, the performer would open the pack even side up. He would spread the card till he found the 6 of spades (hearts and spades even. 7+6 =13). Peeling off the card below would show the 7 of hearts.

[eanceoil]

it was brilliant and just reminds me why I love the Chase as a quiz show.. anything's liable to happen, more than a quiz show imo!

[eanceoil]

Oh right, get you now, very smart - I just remembered he asked Bradley first what was the card he picked, so he wasn't reading Bradley's mind ... was fab though

[Jackdaw33]

Basically it's just an illusion. You are led to believe that only one card is upside down when in fact 26 are, depending on which way you open the pack. Hence the need for rough-backed cards which will stick together during the spread.

[eanceoil]

I like magic shows, because this was on a quiz show-I'm loving it and thanks to you all for the solving how it happened - I may even buy that pack from Amazon and do it on my friends !

[Jackdaw33]

The really difficult bit is the prestidigitation required when spreading the cards so as not to give the game away. Should you accidentally drop the pack then the game is up.

[eanceoil]

I suppose practice makes perfect

[Jackdaw33]

Invisible is probably the wrong word. Better would be to ask the punter to choose from an imaginary pack.

[Jackdaw33]

I don't think that this would work with an ordinary deck as the key is that the cards stick to each other back to back.