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One participant thinks of a playing card the second one thinks of one also both are asked to name out loud the card they are thinking of and coincidentally they are thinking of the same card!

The main thing to remember here is to not use the same force on both of the participants which is tempting as it seem the most logical route.

With the first participant I would use the increment force and stop them on the heart (if the second participant is female) club (if male) so the first participant would be thinking of the six of hearts (or clubs) I would then force the seven on the second participant and use piggybacking to get them to go down by one.

In this type of routine it doesn’t matter if one goes for the heart and one goes for the diamond. Or one goes for spade and one goes for club. Just use the techniques outlined above to ensure that the second participant goes for a suit of the same colour.

If you wanted to ensure that the first participant goes for the same card as the second you could always use a marked deck, ribbon spread it facedown and then ask the first participant to slide a card out facedown and keep it face down.

Read the marking and then just force the relevant playing card on the second participant.

With this type of routine, one participant is choosing a card consciously and the second is choosing a card subconsciously (or unconsciously) I think it makes for a great premise.

This type of routine plays out really strongly for a couple, just ensure that you can indefinitely force the card before trying this type of routine.

Bold

This is my favourite type of routine, one playing card is placed down and the participant names a card it is flipped over and BOOM it hits!

There are multiple ways to do this, one is to place it down at the start of the routine and go for gold and frame the routine as influence.

You can do this type of routine by getting the person to think of a card use the above methods to test the water and then fish pulling one card and placing it down.

In this context you can always use the age old one ahead should the first card not hit and try to hit the second one.

For the people that don’t know what the one ahead is, let’s say I have placed the four of clubs down and the participant has gone for the six of spades I would then pretend to the participant that

everything has gone perfectly and then without turning the card over I would then go through the deck pulling the six of spades out and then aim to force the four of clubs again.

This will give me a second chance should I have failed the first force.

Another way out of this situation is when they name the card out loud, if it is the wrong card don’t worry simply go through the deck and cull their card to the top and apply a simple top change. If you are not mechanically that great then place theirs on the top of the deck and ask them if they want to look at it.

They will obviously say yes.

Then simply apply a double lift.

Another out is the Santa Clause out, or more popularly known as

Burnt Memories

We will be using this in the context of asking them if they want to look at the card or not, not in the context it is described here.

But you should fully understand how it would work in context after reading this.

Take a billet and write on it:

“Some of the greatest things in life are best left a mystery”.

Fold the billet and then place it into a match box. Add two matches to the box.

Place the small matchbox into your pocket and you are set.

Save this piece until it feels right, (for example at the end of a reading or performance) turn to one of the females and address her.

Performer: “I feel with you, you really want to believe that something outside of what we logically understand exists. Even

though you are constantly told it’s not possible, there is something in your heart that just tells you that there are things out there.

If I could write down just one thing that would prove undoubtedly that all of this is very much real, could you think of what that one thing would be?

Whether it’s a name or a little sentiment, just something that would completely confirm all of those feelings to be true”.

Participant: “Yeah I have something”.

Hold the participant’s hand for a few seconds while just looking at her - right into her eyes.

Performer: “You know they say that the eyes are the window to the soul”.

Remove the matchbox, slide out the drawer and unfold the billet ensuring that the writing on the inside is hidden.

Write on the billet –

To (INSERT PARTICIPANT’S NAME), Then sign the bottom of the billet.

Fold it back up and slide it back into the box.

Performer: “(insert participant’s name) there is only one thing separating you from believing in all of this.

One of the worst situations to be in in life is when the heart and mind have opposing viewpoints and there is a conflict of interest.

This is for you. But before you even contemplate opening it I want to tell you something that is going to be life changing, no matter which path you decide to take.

Before you make that choice let me tell you a story.

I grew up on Queensbury council estate (the ghetto to everyone

outside of the U.K) and as a kid because of the people we associated with we always believed we would amount to nothing. Because of that one of the things I held in such high regard, which might seem silly now was Santa clause. I loved Christmas. I probably believed for far too long.

I behaved every single day just to have a definitive effect on that one day. One afternoon in December I got my guitar and went around to my friend Christy’s house for band practice and as I came through the door Christy asked me what had got me so happy.

I told him that it was Christmas soon and Santa was going to be visiting and he looked at me and said you do know Santa is not real right?

I smiled and replied yeah of course I know but inside I was torn. He had stripped away the only thing that made me feel a sense of wonder.

I left and went home and I was destroyed.

I realised as I matured that there is only one thing actually

stopping Santa from being real. That thing is belief. It is the one thing that stops the greatest things in life from being real.

You may be wondering why I told you that story. The reason being that it leads to this moment, where you get to make a choice.

You can take the box, slide out the piece of card and open it, potentially risking it being wrong and if it is wrong you ruin this moment for yourself.

Or,

You can give me the box back, just knowing that what I have written is correct completely and there is no need to look at it because you just know it is right and you will ultimately have a beautiful story to tell of this exact moment for the rest of your life.

If they give you the box back, take out a match and strike it on the side of the box and then burn the billet.

Think about the power this piece has psychologically. People might open the box and read the content, they will feel bad that they did and that is a massive lesson in itself.

For the people that don't open it, think of how powerful that is! It is the stuff legends are made of and the box will become an amazing part of their life and a story that they will tell whenever they get the opportunity. Truly something that will last a lifetime.