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Dean Performing for Johnny Carson

Dean Dill is a famously inventive magician and one of the real neat guys in magic. He?s famous for his Dean?s Box ? a mini-s?ance ? that has received raves from everyone who has seen it.

So I was very interested when I was browsing the Penguin Magic video archive and saw that his trick Blizzard was one of the many videos they had available. By the way, they?ve done a great job with the production of these videos. Great camera work and very good sound. If you?ve seen the quality of the videos on other sites, you?ll be impressed.

Anyway?.

Here?s the effect. I?ll describe it exactly as it appears.

You ask your volunteer to name any card in the deck. No force, obviously. If they want the two of Spades, fine. If they want the nine of Hearts, it?s okay. You remove the selected cards and its mates. So if they picked the nine of Hearts, you?ll pull out (face down) the nine of Spades, Clubs and Diamonds.

You hand these four face-down cards to your lovely volunteer and ask her to shuffle the four cards to thoroughly mix them up. Again, you emphasize that the cards need to be face down at all time so that you will not be able to cheat and catch a glimpse of the order of the four…
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