MENTAL MAGIC ~ UNBELIEVABLE By Shields & Jones

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“UNBELIEVABLE”
BY F. MICHAEL SHIELDS & BASCOM JONES JR.
Softcover, Comb Binding, Copyright 1949, 4 Pages
As the performer, you have a spectacular fairly shuffle and cut a deck of cards. Then, from the shuffled deck, the cards are separated into two packets of twenty-six cards each. One packet goes to the spectator; the other to you. All of the clubs and diamonds are assembled in one packet, and all of the hearts and spades go into the other. In assembling the cards, however, they are taken just as they occur in the shuffled deck. No attempt is made to rearrange their order.
Next, you deliberately deal the cards from your packet, one at a time, face up about the top of the table. On each face up card, the spectator places one of their own cards face down. Thus, on each of the twenty-six face up cards scattered about the table there will be a face down card.
Remind the spectator that they have shuffled and cut the deck thereby making any arrangement of the cards completely random, you point to the first face up card dealt — say the Queen of Spades. The chance, you explain, that the single face down card on top off the Queen of Spades is the other black queen, the Queen of Clubs, is about one in twenty-six. Yet, when the spectator flicks the card over. they find that it is the Queen of Clubs.
However, you continue, the “odds that all twenty-six cards are matched similarly are astronomical.” But as the spectator continues to turn over the cards, one by one, they find the “unbelievable” fact — black deuce is on black deuce red nine on red nine, black five on black five, and so on through the twenty-six!
REMEMBER that the spectator shuffles and cuts the deck, and then consider the stunning impact that the trick must have on them. Combine these two facts with the simplicity of method, and you will begin to get some idea of how powerful this effect is.
A truly Unbelievable card effect!