Awesome Performance Story... Sheer Luck!

[RickEverhart]

So yesterday I am performing for some family and friends after lunch. I am doing Biddle and the lady flips out of course and everyone is going nuts. Her selected card was the Queen of Hearts. But here's the kicker....

As I put all of the cards back together and start doing some fans and flourishing just messing around...someone else says..."Hey I saw a card in the deck that is marked with a big black mark on it..what was that? You are cheating." I was a little taken off by this comment because I knew it was a regular deck of red bikes. I was like, "What....oh....that's weird...and proceeded to set the red backed card on the table that happened to have a big happy face drawn on the back with a black sharpie.

She turns it over and it is a Queen of Hearts. That was it...everyone goes wild and I just stared and took it all in and played it off as I meant it all along.

Anyway....the funny part is...the night before I was practicing one of the tricks out of MAGIC magazine, Josh Jay's Column, and there is a trick where you draw a happy face on a card. I had just happened to pick a duplicate queen of hearts that night to draw the face on and accidentally left it in the deck. So in my deck there were two Queen of Hearts but one had a big black happy face on it. Out of sheer luck, the following day at the lunch performance...the lady selects the other queen of hearts in the deck that did not have the happy face drawn on it. It looked like a miracle.

This was definitely one of those sheer luck moments that made me look incredible.

 

[Zephil]

Nice!
That's probably as cool as it gets in terms of accidental magic, because it didn't look accidental at all.

 

[chriswiehl]

its great when it happens. and we can always play it off, cause for us its not really magical lol. its something we know how we did it so were not easily taken off guard by things like that
awesome stuff tho.
its like the, name any card
take the first card off the deck.
bam your card.

 

[LBarnes]

The routine published in magic magazine is "Put on a happy face" by Jonathon Kamm.

Just thought I'd chime in with that =)

Anyway, awesome bit of luck there mate!

Lloyd

 

[RickEverhart]

The routine published in magic magazine is "Put on a happy face" by Jonathon Kamm.

Just thought I'd chime in with that =)

Anyway, awesome bit of luck there mate!

Lloyd

Thanks Lloyd...I don't have my MAGIC magazine at work..ha ha. I couldn't think of the exact name.

 

[Lyle Borders]

Get d+M's Advocate. This will allow you to do that impromptu.

 

[RickEverhart]

I have it...I just haven't practiced Advocate enough to do it yet.

 

[StP217]

where do you get Advocate + thats a real amazing twist

 

[DannyT]

Cool deal Rev!
I love hearing stories like these.

 

[RickEverhart]

Danny...are you guys still in the chat sessions or has it died off?

 

[Flyspazz]

where do you get Advocate + thats a real amazing twist

You can get it on Daniel Madisons site here.

Thanks for sharing Rev. I love it when "accidents" like that happen.

 

[aJohnson]

I had alot of luck before. I was performing a quick trick for my friend and I badly screwed up, I actually lost their card, so I took a guess and said "Was it the king of spades?" and it actually was. He was bagaffled and so was I.

 

[MagicShadow9]

Ha, that's pretty sweet.

For all of you wondering what trick he was talking about, you can see the performance here.

 

[RickEverhart]

Thanks for the link. That was great to actually see the trick in action. I just read about it other day and now it all makes more sense than just reading it and trying to imagine it happening. I loved it! Awesome.

 

[James Smith]

I love it when things like that happen. There was a thread on the E forums recently about accidental miracles.

 

[Randomwrath]

This is a thread *coughImadecough* about coincidence and things like that. You might wanna check it out.

Click me as though your life depends upon it!

 

[magic_slave]

where do you get Advocate + thats a real amazing twist

i was considering to get this but is it hard? i mean is it hard to do and understand?
because i hate reading....

 

[RickEverhart]

I wouldn't say it is hard, I just haven't had enough time to get myself up to speed on it yet to be able to go out and use it effectively. You may need to get better and feel comfortable with some misdirection as well.

The device itself is very easy to make and you will have everything. I guarantee it.