Mastermind Deck 3H (Red Bicycle Only) by Chris Kenworthey
Years ago, Chris Kenworthey released his Mastermind Deck in a different back design. It was performed by Kreskin on the David Letterman show and the Regis & Kathy show. It was a big hit and a sellout. Now Chris has released this deck again but now in Bicycle cards manufactured by the US Playing Card Company.
Here is the Crowning achievement in test conditions mentalism! If you were permitted to perform only one effect before your town’s local newspaper editor, before a Magic Castle membership audition, or for Grand Prix Competition at FISM this would be it. Special thanks go to Hiro Hirata for releasing this peerless mind teaser to the magic fraternity.
Ensconced subliminally in the psyche of every mentalist is the desire to foretell destiny. Nostradamus, Count Cagilostro, and more recently Edgar Cayce are but a few of the mortals rumored to have possessed prophetic powers. Now you can transcend these luminaries with an effect that truly borders on the paranormal! Mastermind is an enigma of such spellbinding magnitude that it will transform the most critical skeptics into steadfast believers! What follows is an eyewitness account of this extraordinary phenomenon-Believe!
EFFECT A registered and notarized envelope is mailed to the mayor of your town seven days before your show is to take place. Inside this single, ungimmicked envelope is a single, ungimmicked playing card with a blue back. The mayor is instructed to keep the envelope in his possession and not let anyone tamper with it. (In fact, no one ever does, and there is never any switching of envelopes or cards ever throughout the entire routine.)
On the night of your show, a red-backed deck of cards is freely shown. Each of the cards is absolutely different, and the deck is honestly shuffled and fairly cut. (Note, there are no long or short cards, no roughed cards, no stacked arrangements, no marked cards, no stripped cards, no crimps, no false counts, and no sleight of hand involved whatsoever!) The deck quite honestly appears ordinary in every respect. It is openly ribbon-spread face-up on the table, offering a bird’s-eye view that each card is in fact different.
Once the mayor is satisfied that the cards are thoroughly mixed, they are then ribbon-spread face down, allowing for an uninhibited, free choice of any card. Note, the selection here is immaculately clean. To repeat, any card may be selected! The card the mayor himself slides out of the deck is immediately turned face-up. Let’s say it is the three of hearts. The mayor himself opens the prediction envelope that is still in his possession, and inside is the one card-a matching three of hearts! The “impossible” has just occurred!
Now for the unprecedented test conditions:
1. No forcing of any kind is ever employed! This includes psychological, mathematical, spelling, timing or classic!
2. No roughed cards.
3. No duplicate cards relied on.
4. No stacked arrangements.
5. No Himber Wallets or switching of envelopes or cards ever!
6. Prediction card is actually in envelope for the entire week. It is the same card removed from the envelope by the mayor!
7. Even if prediction is tampered with, outcome of trick will remain unaltered. (This is a first in prediction effects!)
8. Can be done as a test in telepathy between two cities over the telephone.
9. Absolutely no sleight of hand required!
10. No long or short cards employed. 11. If you were to print these decks on an individual basis, each one would cost $10,000!
12. Skeptical? Order one and see why!
Eclipse the competition with the greatest conundrum to baffle civilization since the mystery of the pyramids. Mastermind is foolproof mentalism designed for the purist! In the realm of extrasensory perception it has no equal!
