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Mike Ince
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For those of you who perform with Mnemonica and like Aaronson's Shuffle-bored effect, here's what I've been doing lately.

From the face I spread off cards 40-52 and hand them to the participant to shuffle (these will be the predicted cards). Then I take cards 27-39 for myself to shuffle. From there I do an identical handling to the one Bill Goldman uses in his Little Bunny's Card Trick. My folded prediction (labeled "The Inevitable" on the outside) is revealed line by line as follows:

There are 13 face up cards.
6 cards are red and 7 are black.
All of the black number cards are clubs.
Except the 4.


(Alternatively, the last two lines can read as follows:
All of the royal face cards are black.
Except the Queen.)

Afterward the first 26 cards are still in order and can be used in any of the half-stack effects taught in Tamariz' book.

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Atom3339
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Very nice! Thanks, Mike!
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Tom G
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Neat idea Mike, good thinking.
Mike Ince
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I'd forgotten I used to do this. Enjoy, if you don't already.
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Thank you. I’ll be playing around with this, for sure.
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I missed this post when it was first made; thanks for sharing this Mike. I'll definitely be using this.
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I just read 'random sample shuffle-bored' in Art Decko where Simon mentioned getting into it from Aronson stack. I went here to see if someone figured out a method to do it with mnemonica. Thanks for sharing, Mike.