This video is the live version of "Self Challenge" already published on Double Fond TV. Two cards are freely chosen from a normal deck, one in the first half of the deck and one in the second half. Before you even have time to catch your breath, you'll notice that the two chosen cards have changed packets! An instantaneous transposition, very startling and punchy! To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click on the following link: https://mayette.com/en/cartes/850-jeu-bicycle-rider-rouge-standard  

A great classic of card magic... An extremely effective trick, which requires a minimum of sleight of hand. The back of a freely chosen card changes color... and its face turns into the card chosen by another spectator. A real miracle!  

This video is the live version of "3 Queens Elmsley Duvivier" already published on Double Fond TV. 5 cards are placed clearly in the shirt pocket at the beginning of the trick. 2 cards are freely chosen, and lost in the deck, which is placed on the table. The magician takes the 5 cards, fans them, and turns the two cards at the ends face up, as well as the one in the center: 3 queens are then revealed; the most extraordinary thing is that the 2 face down cards sandwiched between the 3 queens are the 2 chosen cards!  

Dominique Duvivier describes his personal way of performing "Open Travellers", Larry Jennings' classic card magic trick. The magician shows how a card can be hidden in his hand, but in an invisible way: he ostensibly puts a card in the palm of his hand, and yet it is shown empty on both sides, fingers outspread... and when he puts the "invisible card" down on the table, it can be seen again.  

The magician tries to find the spectator's card by analyzing his expressions. The spectator gloats when he realizes that the magician is wrong. But that was without counting the final turn of events! This highly interactive routine is used by Paul Gertner to put skeptical audiences in their place when they try to corner the magician. Very useful, isn't it? Not to mention that the routine is easy to do. It's all good stuff!  

Card Technique: First published in the book "Duvivier Magic", published by Kaufman & Greenberg in 1996. The special thing about this double lift is that you spin the double card in the air, as if it were doing multiple somersaults, thus removing any suspicion of cheating. This is an extremely effective way to do it!  

Another magical exercise in style. A startling and baffling effect where a card that becomes four cards in an instant…  

The magician takes the Ace, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Spades from the deck. One by one, each of these cards, placed in the center of the packet, magically rises to the top of the packet. The last one, the 5 of Spades, turns into the 5 of Hearts. Then the four 5s appear, and then the red and the black cards are now separated in the deck! Guaranteed impact!  

Little magic exercise in style! An ace becomes in turn a 2 then a 3 and finally a 4 of diamonds...  

For example, how do you include the big dot of the Ace of Spades in the middle of the back of a card?  

One of my most famous tricks, invented almost by chance during a memorable magical night spent at Juan Tamariz's house... I was looking for a mirror for a mentalism trick. I asked Juan, who said, "Look in that drawer! "and there I found something that immediately put me on the track... In the early hours of the morning, I had found almost every possible move... You have a very visual effect and a whole pile of possibilities!  

If you liked "Repeated divination" you will also like this trick. You can name the card on the bottom of the deck that faces the spectator, while you can't see anything! It's very baffling and easy to do.  

A very nice effect where a card is transformed at sight in your fingers ... Flash and striking!  

A mysterious and very flash effect: you have only one card, but it changes three times! To be seen again and again, to amuse your fingers... and your spectators!  

As a tribute to this famous Brother John Hamman effect, I created an impromptu version (without gaffed cards) of two cards that turn into four different cards.  

Inspired by Dominique Duvivier's version, here is another method to present the Brother John Hamman effect, but without gaffed cards.