When the name of the card written on the paper is read aloud it turns out to be missing from the deck. In fact, it is the very card that was previously sealed in the envelope.
Mental Card Work uses a variety of dodges, most of which you've probably run into in one place or another, although not necessarily in this combination.
Props & Setup
A deck of cards and one extra card from a similar deck. A note pad, pen or pencil and an envelope.
Let's say the extra card is the 9 of Diamonds. The effect begins with the 9 of Diamonds from the deck and the extra duplicate both on top of the deck as the first and second cards.
This can be done by having the two 9 of Diamonds in your jacket pocket, placing the deck in your pocket momentarily, then bring the deck back out with the two cards added to the top of the deck.
Handling
Two 9 of Diamonds are placed on top of the deck. The spectator is asked to call out a number and that number of cards are pushed off the top of the deck into the right hand.
The counted off stock is held by the right thumb and fingers. The stock is tilted to the left.
The stock is brought face up towards the face down deck. And placed face up on the face down deck.
The deck is cut near the center and thus below the number of cards in the first stock that are now face up on top of the deck. The stock that is cut away is turned over.
The turned over stock is placed back on top of the deck. Spread the cards to the right off the top of the deck until the first face down card is reached.
This first face down card becomes the spectator's selected card. The right photograph above shows the under view of the card selected disclosing that it is one of the two duplicate cards originally on the top of the deck.
Presentation
Ask the first spectator to call out any number between one and ten. As you make this request take the face down deck in your left hand and begin to push the cards off the top of the deck toward your right hand. When the spectator calls the number, complete pushing off that many cards into the right hand.
Take the stock of cards, turn them over so they're face up and drop them back on the top of the deck.
Now cut the deck somewhere near the middle, and thus well below the face up stock, lift off the cards above the cut, turn them over and drop them on the top of the deck.
Fan the face up cards off the top of the deck until you get to the first face down card. Ask the first spectator to take the face down card and without looking at it slide it into an envelope and seal the envelope.
You have just forced the top card of the deck using a force credited to legendary card man Charles Jordan. Although the force can be done with the spectator holding the deck, it is faster and more showy if you handle the cards.
Take the face up stock, turn it over and place it under the face down stock. Now turn to the second spectator and repeat the force. The duplicate card will now have been forced on the second spectator.
Ask the second spectator to peak at the card so that no one else sees it. The handling here is to move the face up stock away from the lower face down stock, turn the face up stock over and place it under the face down stock. At the same time the hands are moving toward the spectator with the deck held in the left hand so that when the right hand can lift the top card and the spectator can peek at it.
Once the spectator has had a good look at the card, the left hand, which is holding the deck, goes into the left jacket pocket and comes out with a small note pad. Note that the left hand is still holding the deck. Motion for the spectator to take the note pad from your hand. While this is happening the right hand has gone into the right jacket pocket and come out with a pencil which you hand to the spectator so that he or she can write the name of the card on the note pad.
Ask the spectator to tear off the sheet he or she has written on and fold it in half. As the spectator does this you use your right hand to take back the note pad and the pencil. As soon as the right hand has hold of both, your hands move back toward your body and your right hand pushes the note pad onto the top of the deck in your left hand so that both hands go to their respective jacket pockets to return the note pad and pencil.
When the left hand goes into the jacket pocket it also thumbs off the top card and leaves it in the pocket.
Now move a short distance away from both spectators and turn to speak to another spectator about what has happened. In doing this hand the deck of cards to that spectator. Explain that in fact an astounding mental event has taken place, although in all modesty you had little to do with it.
Tell the second spectator to open his slip of paper and hold it up so that the first spectator can read aloud what is written on it. The first spectator reads out, "9 of Diamonds."
Turn to the spectator holding the deck and ask him or her to please remove the 9 of Diamonds from the deck. The spectator looks but fails to find any such card in the deck.
Ask the second spectator to take the envelope from the first spectator and tear it open. When this is done the audience sees that the card sealed in the envelope is the missing 9 of Diamonds.
Performance Notes
There are a great many ways of playing this out, depending on your proficiency with card sleights, forces and switches. The handling above is fairly fast paced and requires only the duplicate card for setup. However for stage or platform work, using ESP symbols, Tarot Cards or a regular deck, I'd be tempted to switch in and out a one way deck for the force and let the third spectator keep the final missing-a-card deck as a memento of the occasion.
To remove the effect from the realm of card trick the use of Tarot or ESP cards is recommended. With these cards the effect becomes very spooky indeed.
Fans of Charles Jordan's work will note that the count added to the first of the two turn overs has absolutely nothing to do with the end result. This is correct, but it does obscure the events taking place and makes the spectator feel involved in the selection process.
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