The Reputation Maker
With Harry Robson
Think-of-a-card magic with a borrowed, shuffled deck and no force — from two performers with 50+ years' combined experience.
Between us, Harry Robson and I have over fifty years of doing this one effect, at practically every job we’ve worked.
A deck — borrowed and shuffled by the spectator if you like — is spread, and someone merely thinks of a card they see. No force, a completely free choice. Then you tell them what it is.
In eighty minutes we give away the lot: the technique, the psychology, and a lot of ways to reveal it — straight mind reading, card to pocket, card under glass, card on the shoulder. There’s the Harry Koran Deck, a version of the plot that makes this workable whatever your level, and a double prediction built on top of it that’s far more deceptive than it has any right to be.
It’s called The Reputation Maker because that is what it did for both of us.