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There are two approaches for this: one is the simple and effective approach and the other is the bold approach. I will let you decide which I prefer.

Variation #1

This variation is something you will have to just try to see the effectiveness of it. It is essentially a verbal subtlety that ensures you know the order in which the participant changes their mind. It is a clever take on “restricting without seeming restrictive.” The participant gets slightly

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less from this than the audience, but it flies straight under the radar so I never worry.

Address the participant:

Performer: “To make sure you know the four suits, can you say them out loud for me?”

Participant: “Clubs, Hearts, Spades and Diamonds.”

Performer: “In a moment I am going to snap my fingers, and every time I snap my fingers I just want you to cycle through the suits.”

As you say the word “suits,” snap once close to your body, snap a second time a few inches from the first time and then snap a third and fourth time, each time a little farther than the last time you snapped.

I understand that it is a very difficult instruction to understand in text. Essentially you are non-verbally suggesting to the participant: “Each time I snap my fingers I want you to move to a different suit.”

Because you used a specific word in your scripting, the word “cycle,” the participant won’t change the order of the suits they committed to when they named them out loud (in this example I used CHaSeD order). This means they will constantly go around CHaSeD order (don’t worry, there is a video link in a moment).

129 For example, let’s say you want to force a Club and the participant has said the suits out loud in CHaSeD order.

Address the participant:

Performer: “Visualise the first suit in your mind and get ready for me to snap my fingers.”

This will let the participant know to think of the Club and that when you snap they are to start stepping through the cycle they chose.

Now all you have to do is snap count along in your head.

Snap (Heart), snap (Spade), snap (Diamond).

Go around as many times as you like. Slow down on the last few, ensuring you stop on Club.

Remember, you aren’t saying the suits out loud.

When you do, stop them on the Club and address the participant.

Performer: “Be 100% honest, you didn’t know you would be thinking of a playing card?”

Participant: “No, I didn’t.”

Performer: “You didn’t know that you would be changing your mind in the order you did?”

Performer: “No.”

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Performer: “Therefore there is no way I could have known the order in which you would have decided to change your mind?”

Participant: “No.”

Look at how sneaky the questioning is: it will lead the audience to believe that the participant could have changed their mind in any order, when in fact they really couldn’t. If you are bold you could make the participant promise that they will not change the suit and then almost pressure them to admit they could have changed to any suit in any order.

Before anyone takes the word “pressure” out of context, I don’t mean instant stooge or control/manipulate; I mean use of clever questions like the questions above.

At this point you can openly produce (in a non-magical sense) the card you forced.

Additional idea

This is something that I have explored in great depth in The Book of Demons. It is so sneaky yet completely forces the participant to stick to the order that they chose.

It requires good audience management but is very simple;

I have used this in close-up for such a long time and I have never had any problems.

131 Stand the participant away from the group so they are facing the group of witnesses.

After the participant has called out the four suits and you have explained they are going to cycle through them when you snap, face the participant for a few seconds (ensuring the witnesses cannot see your mouth).

When you snap the first time, mouth the word “Club,”

then snap again and mouth the word “Heart,” then snap and mouth “Spade,” snap and say “Diamond” and then finally snap and say “Club.” NOTE: You would be mouthing them in the order that they specified out loud.

Continue to snap and they will follow the order with no problems whatsoever. This will ensure that they will stop on the exact suit you would like. This is a very simple touch, but when you take this principle and you stretch it, there are many wonderful applications.

Variation #2

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I ask the participant to think of a playing card suit and then I proclaim:

Performer: “Every time I snap my fingers I want you to change the suit to whatever suit you feel you want to change to.”

I start to snap my fingers at a nice pace (one that feels comfortable) and I close my eyes and think of the suit I would think of.

I then start to slow down my snaps and I stop when I feel I would stop on whatever suit it is I want them to stop on.

I find this somehow works; maybe it is that we are all similar as human beings…I don’t know!

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Credits

Devil in Disguise – Spider force

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