Chapter VI
Card Mysteries Employing Diachylon
A breath of adhesive turns ordinary cards into secret partners.
The principle: The Diachylon (Adhesive) PrincipleIn this chapter
26 tricksTwin Aces
A freely selected card vanishes into the deck, yet ends up trapped between the two matching aces.
The Flying Card
A chosen card vanishes from the shuffled deck and reappears inside a previously empty card box.
The Missing Card
A selected card vanishes from one deck and appears at a freely chosen number in a completely separate deck.
Mesmerized Cards
You touch a card on the table and it sticks to your finger as if magnetized.
Diachylon Force
A spectator freely chooses one card from a spread on a tray, yet it is always the card you intended.
The Queen Turns Over
Three cards are shown, the Queen is laid aside face down, yet she mysteriously flips face up among the others.
Diachylon Book Test - Forcing
Spectators freely cut the deck several times, yet the random cards they land on spell out a number you predicted.
Another Diachylon Force
A spectator points to any card in a freely fanned deck, yet always lands on the one card you intended.
Twin Aces
A freely chosen card is shuffled into the deck, yet it is found trapped between two matching Aces.
Turno
A signed selection is placed back into the deck the right way, yet it is later found mysteriously reversed.
Melrose
A freely shuffled, freely cut card vanishes from the pack and then reappears the instant a spectator silently thinks 'stop'.
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.
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.
Reversed Color Surprise
A chosen card mysteriously turns face up in the deck on command, then reveals an impossibly mismatched back color.
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.
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.
Ace Transposition
Two aces sealed in separate glasses on opposite sides of the table magically trade places on command.
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.
Card In Pocket
A freely chosen card vanishes from a shuffled deck and is found waiting in the performer's pocket.
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.
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.
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.
Number Please
A freely chosen card is counted down to a number the spectator names, where it has impossibly arrived on top.
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.
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.
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.