Magic Tricks

The spectator isn’t just watching, they are involved with actions almost as much as you are. They follow your move, not the other way around. If you were following their placement, they would think you might be “reading” their card, and through some sleight, you were pulling out the right card to match. This will short circuit that analysis.

The instructions show a standing way to do it and a table version.
The reveal can be all at once, in pairs, or one card at a time.

I think showing all of them at once matching pairs, may get them thinking “What am I looking at? Ohhhhh!”

The other method is you both shuffle 5 cards. You place yours randomly on the table. They follow with random placement on top of your cards. The reveal is one pair at a time. Will the next turnover be a match or a miss? I like this slow reveal. Your placement is clean. The standing version has you moving two cards from the top to the bottom, which may seem suspicious when they backtrack the thought process. It might help if you make a point of the move with the first pair.

I just started playing with it, and it’s a winner. The colors are bright which indicates it’s not going to a regular card trick. There’s one move that’s easy, but it will take a few runthroughs to do it at speed.

This will totally baffle your participant.