Co-inci-mental - £15.00

Two half decks are removed from a card case, one half having red backs the other blue. The 26 cards in the blue set are the exact duplicates of the 26 cards in the red set.

A spectator is handed the blue backed set and he shuffles them while the performer shuffles the red set. Taking the blue set, the performer carefully ribbon spreads the cards face down across the table in front of the spectator. He then does the same with the red set, ribbon spreading them face down in front of himself.

The magician now reaches across and removes one card at random from the spectator’s blue set and without looking at it or showing it to anyone, drops the card on top of the blue half deck. The spectator is then asked to reach across and similarly lift out any of the performer’s red backed cards and drop that selection on top of the red set.

Both sets are openly squared and left in a face down pile with the two selections on the top of the respective piles. The performer stresses that he shuffled his red set and that the spectator was completely free to remove any card at all from the red spread. The top card is lifted off the red pile and dropped face up back onto the pile to reveal that the spectator has chosen, for example, the 10D.

The spectator had also shuffled his cards and the performer had removed one card BEFORE the spectator chose his. The magician asks the spectator to turn over the top card of his blue pile - it is also the 10D!

Quite a coincidence - but what is perhaps even more surprising is that not only did they both choose the same card, but they also managed to select the only red cards when every other single card was black - and both piles are ribbon spread face up to reveal two sets of all black cards!

Unbelievably clean and very easy to do with no sleight of hand or card moves of any sort and no rough and smooth. This is surely the most natural ‘do-as-I-do’ type effect available. Comes with all cards and full instructions.

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