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VI

Chapter VI

Card Mysteries Employing Diachylon

A breath of adhesive turns ordinary cards into secret partners.

The principle: The Diachylon (Adhesive) Principle

In this chapter

26 tricks
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Twin Aces

A freely selected card vanishes into the deck, yet ends up trapped between the two matching aces.

Discovery15m
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The Flying Card

A chosen card vanishes from the shuffled deck and reappears inside a previously empty card box.

Transposition25m
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The Missing Card

A selected card vanishes from one deck and appears at a freely chosen number in a completely separate deck.

Coincidence40m
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Mesmerized Cards

You touch a card on the table and it sticks to your finger as if magnetized.

Discovery15m
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Diachylon Force

A spectator freely chooses one card from a spread on a tray, yet it is always the card you intended.

Prediction15m
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The Queen Turns Over

Three cards are shown, the Queen is laid aside face down, yet she mysteriously flips face up among the others.

Reversal15m
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Diachylon Book Test - Forcing

Spectators freely cut the deck several times, yet the random cards they land on spell out a number you predicted.

Reversal15m
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Another Diachylon Force

A spectator points to any card in a freely fanned deck, yet always lands on the one card you intended.

Discovery15m
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Twin Aces

A freely chosen card is shuffled into the deck, yet it is found trapped between two matching Aces.

Discovery25m
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Turno

A signed selection is placed back into the deck the right way, yet it is later found mysteriously reversed.

Reversal25m
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Melrose

A freely shuffled, freely cut card vanishes from the pack and then reappears the instant a spectator silently thinks 'stop'.

Discovery25m
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Two Viewpoints

Two spectators each lose a freely chosen card in a shuffled deck, then you find both blindfolded by stabbing them with a borrowed knife.

Discovery25m
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Diachylon Stop Trick

A freely chosen card is hopelessly lost and shuffled, yet you locate it by feel while dealing face down, naming it before it's turned.

Mind Reading25m
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Reversed Color Surprise

A chosen card mysteriously turns face up in the deck on command, then reveals an impossibly mismatched back color.

Reversal15m
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Diachylon Super Color Change

A freely chosen card is found by the audience's combined thought, then visibly changes its back color when they blow on it.

Transformation15m
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Flyaway Cards

An initialed card vanishes, another card reverses itself in its place, and finally the signed card reappears reversed in the spectator's own hands.

Reversal25m
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Ace Transposition

Two aces sealed in separate glasses on opposite sides of the table magically trade places on command.

Transposition25m
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Remote Control Improved

A spectator merely points at any face-up card in a red deck, and that very card turns out to be the blue-backed, initialed card they chose minutes earlier.

Discovery15m
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Card In Pocket

A freely chosen card vanishes from a shuffled deck and is found waiting in the performer's pocket.

Discovery25m
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The Diachylon Do As I Do

Two people each lose a card in their own deck, yet the cards left behind turn out to be an exact match.

Coincidence15m
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A Real Magical Vanish

A red-backed Queen visibly travels from a separate blue deck across the room to rejoin two Aces tucked in a spectator's pocket.

Transposition15m
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The Acme Spirit Test

A spectator writes the name of someone deceased on one card and the names of living people on four others, then mixes all five and hands them over.

Prediction15m
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Number Please

A freely chosen card is counted down to a number the spectator names, where it has impossibly arrived on top.

Discovery15m
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The Sympathetic Pair-No. 1

Two people each think of and write down a card, yet those very cards are found nestled together in the shuffled deck.

Prediction25m
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The Sympathetic Pair-No. 2

Two named cards are lost in a shuffled deck, yet they mysteriously find each other and end up side by side.

Discovery15m
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The Sympathetic Pair-No. 3

Two people each choose a card from a shuffled deck, and the two selections are found resting together at the finish.

Discovery15m
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