Adair’s Ideas

Here’s a ‘Passé Passé’ type effect using two playing cards, with a difference. The cards are the same, but each with a big hole in their centres- one square and one circular ! Both cards can be examined at the commencement of the effect. The performer explains that often squares change places with circles and … Read more

A packet card trick, from the prolific mind of Ian Adair. Effect : The Magician shows 5 cards with pictures of five popular grocery items – BREAD, BEANS, BUTTER, SOAP POWDER AND SUGAR. On the reverse of the cards, there is a barcode, but all these barcodes are identical. The cards are mixed, and a … Read more

Here’s an unusual three card monte or “find the Queen” routine. The performer displays three separate cards, blank on all sides. He arranges them into a fan. He asks a spectator to imagine this is the famous Three Card Trick, rather like Find the Lady, without the pictorial images. Pointing to the centre card, he … Read more

A clear acetate folder is shown and a spectator is asked to feel the center to make sure it has no openings.  The folder is folded in half. A playing card (any card) is placed between both sections of the folder and then pushed downwards.  The spectators clearly see the card penetrating right through the … Read more

Effect: The performer displays the backs of ten playing cards and mixes them up. He tells a spectator that he will pick one of the ten cards, and this will act as a ‘prediction’. This is done, a face down card being withdrawn from the fan and placed in full view. Now the spectator is … Read more