THE ANDY HURST LECTURE MARCH 2010

Andy performed and taught a selection of effects, mainly with cards and many with a mentalism angle to them.

He started with "Dead Knock Out" in which cards are dealt face up onto the table until a spectator chooses to stop. Despite this being a fair and free choice the magician reveals that the spectator was in fact controlled through suggestion and actually stopped precisely where the magi wanted him to. This effect is based on the commercially available trick "Knock 'em Dead" by Peter Nardi but leaves you with a clean and regular deck at the end so you can go directly into other card effects.

"Ticker Master" is a non-card mental effect in which a story is told about a night at the theatre. The magi has booked an entire row of seats. One ticket is set aside at the outset which will be the magicians seat and then a participant chooses a ticket by a very fair method of elimination. Despite the clearly fair method of selection the magicians prediction which has been on view from the get go shows that he knew exactly where the spectator would end up sitting. This is based on a trick that Andy first had published in Semi Automatic card tricks Volume 4 and is ideal for platform or close-up work and could easily be adapted for use as a childrens trick.

"Cancelled Again" - An impossible revelation of a card that a spectator cuts to in a deck they shuffled while the magicians back is turned. All possible methods are ruled out yet the magician is still able to name the card. This is a variation of "Cancelled Out" which Andy had published in England Up Close by Peter Duffie.

"The SC Transpo" is an incredibly clean transposition involving a spectators free selection and the ace of spades. This uses Andys original sleight "The SC Switch" which was originally published in his book "Project Latnem" which enables a thrust type effect but with some super-clean displays.

"Firing Blacks II". The original Firing blanks trick appeared in Andys book but was heavy on sleights. This new method incredibly recreates the exact same effect zero sleights and just a small, clever gaff. This is an open prediction type effect with a comedic approach and a blank deck.

"Ready Salted" - This was a quick demonstration of how an old principle is so old it's new again!

"Uno Undo" - One of Andy's favorite card tricks that baffles magicians as well as laymen. A spectator cuts the deck and notes the card where he cuts and then buries the card into the deck. The magician does not touch the deck at this stage. Although it appears impossible for the magician to find the card, he runs through the face down deck and tosses out two cards at random. The value of these two are added together, the spectator counts down to that number and finds the card they cut to and they lost in the pack!