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This is a force that I think most people will know, it is a very easy force to pull off and is probably the oldest force in this entire document. This is when working with a female.

Performer: “I want you to imagine a deck of cards, imagine going in and taking one card out, this could be your favourite (pause) or you’re least favourite. Tell me when you have a card in mind”.

Pay attention to the pause, you are pausing there so they start to think of their favourite card and then you add or your least

favourite as they have already started to think of their favourite they are not going to change their mind.

I have never seen this sort of force done with the pause but there is something really beautiful that you have just done.

You have now enabled yourself when the participant tells you that they are thinking of a card you can now say –

Performer: “There is no way I could know what card you are thinking of, it could be your favourite, your least favourite or one you just selected at random”.

This makes it seem impressive from everyone else’s perspective.

Using piggybacking here you can make it even more incredible.

Let’s say you wanted to force the king of clubs – When you have performed the force above simply say.

Performer: “Whatever card you are thinking of now, go up by one.

Then change the suit to one of the opposite colour that resembles the shape of the one you are thinking of. So now there is no way on earth I could know what you were going to think of because even you didn’t know”.

As you can see this is a simple but elegant way to not make it seem obvious from the audience’s perspective as the last card is the only thing they will remember.

Aces

These are the hardest cards to force and also the least impressive I would recommend staying away from forcing these cards. But I am going to outline how you can force them should you ever need to.

The first way is to simply pressure someone to name the first card that comes to mind. If the person is not familiar with playing cards the likeliness is they will go for the ace of spades.

Another way to force the ace –

Performer: “I want you to imagine we are playing a game of cards, this can really any game you desire. Obviously the rules for each game are different and each card represents something different in each game. I want you to imagine dealing yourself a card. This is the card you feel is the card you need to beat me”.

Let them tell you they have.

Performer: “I don’t know what game you were playing and I certainly don’t know what card you have dealt yourself, as I said all the cards mean something different”.

This will usually force an ace.

A really blatant force of an ace is to ask someone to name a good card.

Most of the time you are going to force the ace of spades, so don’t try resist it if you are wanting to force a heart. Let them pick up on the ace of spades and then ask them to ignore the suit and use one of the techniques outlined to force one on them.

This seems so fair and natural.

Missing

If you are not particularly bothered about what playing card you are forcing, here is a lovely force that is impossible to backtrack when performed smoothly.

Have a deck of playing cards in your pocket, address the participant, Performer: “As you know I am not a magician and don’t really know any tricks, but I would like to try an experiment. In the 1920s they used to test for psychic ability by transmitting playing cards

mentally.

If the receiver got close they would count it as a hit and that would be enough proof to declare that the person was the real deal.

I want you to think of a playing card for me feel free to change your mind a few times and tell me when you have one in mind”.

The deck is pulled out,

Performer: “There are a couple of cards missing from the deck, before we start let’s just make sure your card is in there”.

Ribbon spread the cards on the table the wider you spread them the better.

Can you see your card?

What will the participant do?

Look up and down the deck and then give you a yes! This will tell you within about 7 cards the participant’s card.

This means that you know the area the card has come from, notice a card from that area and remember it that will be your key card. Cut to that card.

Pick up the deck and cut to that card, that way you have the region of the card they are thinking of.

Then apply the “But then you” principle (described above).

Performer: “So what do I know about you? I feel you changed your mind 2-3 times you went for a black card (pause) but then changed to a red”.

Don’t move any of the cards just yet, just remember later to get rid of the non-chosen coloured card from the stack surrounding your key card.

This is where you need to look in your hand to be able to ask

questions, if they are all numbers then it’s definitely got to be a number. If there is one picture surrounded by numbers the likeliness is based on probability the participant has gone for a number, but I would deal with it carefully with a clever question.

Performer: “Knowing you, you probably thought the picture cards were too obvious (pause) and therefore

[Keep your eyes on the participant’s reaction they will tell you!

They will nod or say yes that they did think that if they are thinking of a number. If they are thinking of a picture they will sort of bow their head. The way they react dictates the way you are going to end your sentence.]

If they nod or give you the green light mid-sentence (to tell you that they are not thinking of a picture) finish the sentence with, Performer: “You avoided thinking of them”.

If they bow their head and look like your assumption was wrong, then quickly counter with:

Performer: “But you know that I know they would be too obvious so you tried to double bluff me and went with a picture card”.

If there is only one picture in your little stack you know exactly which card they are thinking of. If not this will eliminate the picture card/ cards that are in your hand, either way you will know if it’s a number or a picture and the colour of the card they are thinking about.

This is not really the same as fishing as these are carefully constructed sentences in order to be able to construct hits whilst fishing – I call these “Guaranteed bites”.

The questions above dictate what cards are left in your hand there should only be 2-3. Using clever questioning you should be able to get exactly what the card is.

If you place your card in a stack then you don’t need to readjust the order of the deck, you can just clock your key and then you already know the cards around the stack.

Which means everything can be done mentally and you don’t need to even touch the deck (other than to pull the deck out at the end to reveal the card).

Another simple yet elegant force is a jump force, I use this all the time and is my favourite card reveal/ psi force.

Performer: “If you are thinking of a red card change to a black, black change to red”.

If you watch you will notice they will often verbalise when they have done - telling you if they were first thinking of red or black.

Performer: “You are thinking of a number right?”

The likeliness is that they will be.

[It doesn’t matter if they are or they aren’t as in a moment you will have a good cover.]

Let’s say that they have a number.

If you are thinking of a high number, change for a lower number (pause)

Lucky lucky

This is a simple yet effective force that requires a time delay.

Before you move into this type of routine during for example a pin divination – address the participant.

Performer: “What do I know about most people? Ask them to think of a number and most of them will go for a 3, 5 or 7 due to it being the most frequently favourite numbers”.

After slipping this into a routine, address that same participant after the routines come to a close –

Performer: “I want you to take into account what you think you know about people and I want you think of a playing card I couldn’t just guess. The ace of spades or Queen of hearts might be too obvious.

Tell me when you have a card in mind”.

Now the participant is more than likely to avoid the pictures as they are too close to the queen. They won’t go for 3, 5 or 7 because you mentioned most people do.

That leaves 2 4 6 8 10 I have never had 2 or 10 called out, that means you have reduced a deck right down to 4, 6 and 8 three values out of a whole deck!

After forcing a suit, then combining this with a couple of clever questions (as depicted earlier) you can easily work out what card it is that the participant is thinking of.

This sums up something I have talked in depth about in the past

‘restricting without seeming restrictive’.

Implication in a different routine is what makes this routine work;

it seems to have a really beautiful feel to it this way. That is not to say this can’t be performed stand alone.

If I am using this as a stand alone effect then I would use

something I call ‘negative questioning’ – Putting a doubt into the participant’s mind.

You have placed a card on the table, six of clubs is perfect for this.

Performer: “This is going to be a difficult one, I will tell you that it’s not an obvious card like the ace of spades or the queen of hearts, so here goes. Most people under pressure would naturally go for a 3, 5 or 7, I am not saying this card is and I am not saying it is not. Do you think it is a 3, 5, 7 or something else?”

This is beautiful and something I am exploring currently, asking someone a question in a negative way to get a negative response. I reckon with a little bit of thought the things that can be done with this principle will be mind blowing – I am not there with it yet.

This sort of routine works because the focus is on the participant succeeding and is not about you. Therefore the participant has no reason to ever try and mess you up.

Practice

A really simple yet effective way of practicing this sort of stuff, is to use a marked deck and ask the participant to remove the card they are thinking of, that way if you feel you are panicking or have forgotten where you are all you have to do is glance down and look at the marking to back you up.

Once you have failed at this type of thing you realise that it is not the end of the world, I feel without a safety net you will try harder to make it hit.

Another thing I really believe is that if you believe it, so it shall happen. Sounds really stupid but I think focusing on actually sending that card to someone really ups the odds (not in a spiritual or psychic way) but maybe our body language changes or people just have a way of knowing.

Anyway what is the harm in trying?

Recommendations

I want to share a few recommendations for psychological forces/

psychological card reveals I use and would personally recommend as they are super strong!

Derren Brown – 3 of Diamonds International magic lecture Docc Hilford – 6 of Clubs Real Mind Reading

Rus Andrews – Destination Ben Seward – Cog

Premise

This is the most important part of this booklet; it’s what you do with these forces that make them special here are a few premises and ways to perform using these forces.

Everyone has their own performing style and preference on how they would like this type of thing to be perceived.

Think for a few minutes about what you would do with these forces, think about how you would use these forces in context. I have

outlined a few ways I like to perform these routines I hope you love them.