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Hi Tom, I read your latest blog and noticed the reference to this effect. I've never heard of it specifically but I would assume it's in print since Zingone was active in the 1930's. Any chance you could tell me where it is written up? Is it buried in ECT somehere?

Thanks for any info you can provide & I hope your holiday season is a good one. Keep up the blog'n ......it's always interesting to read about the curves life throws in your direction...we all have 'em in varying degrees

Cheers,

John

My lame ass Response

Yo John!

As I'm a bit protective of this routine. (handed down to me by one of my mentors Paul Swinford. . . who learned it from Stuart Judah) I'll be brief in the information about the routine. I don't know if it was ever published. It might have appeared in the "Judah Notes". Some people compare it to a similar Vernon 9 card mental thing, but I don't know that one.

All I can say is it seems to fool magicians and layman alike! Why, I'm not so sure, but I do like to lay it on a bit thick while performing the experiment in intuition! I recently performed a mental sequence. . . 3 card, 12 card & Exploding Light-bulb for a few hundred people as part of a 45 min . show. Went great. LIke to think Zingone or Juduh might have been looking over my shoulder and grinning. with a cigar in one hand and a deck f cards in the other.

Magically,

Tom Frank