BIG BEN This is probably one of the most effective tricks you will do.

Have fun with it and feel free to ad lib where you think you can get extra chuckles. You will need to know the 13th card from the bottom of the deck. Just for example we will say it is the !ce of "pades. #efore you begin the trick you will write the name of this card on a sheet of paper and place it in full view of the audience as a prediction. $Here is a prediction of something that is going to happen. During this experiment I will ask you to keep one eye on the deck... one eye on me... and one eye on the prediction.% Hand the deck to the spectator. $Please turn the deck face up and place it on the table. By the way, have you ever done any traveling !here have you been Have you ever been to "ngland I#m sure you must have heard about Big Ben.% &'ook into audience and pretend to have heard someone.( $$o, madam % not &ncle Ben' it#s Big Ben, the famous clock on the tower. (ir, will you try to picture Big Ben in your mind. )an you see it there with its large numbers Picture an hour on the clock % one, two, three, four, or any hour at all. Have you got this picture in your mind *ood.% "o far nothing has happened and the deck is lying face up on the table. $I will now turn my back. Please take as many cards from the face of the deck as the hour suggests. If you chose three o#clock, take three cards' six o#clock, take six cards. Have you got the idea Put the cards in your pocket when you#ve taken enough.% Turn back to face the spectator. $+ou are now thinking of an hour on the clock face. !e will need twelve cards to draw a picture of the clock.% )ick up the deck and deal twelve cards onto the table one at a time. &This will reverse the order.( )lace the rest of the deck aside and begin to lay out the cards in a clockwise circle beginning with one o*clock. +ach card will represent one hour. $I now have a better picture of the clock. I wont# ask you what time you chose, but I must know if it was morning or afternoon.% ,o matter what the reply continue$Do you have a clear picture ,hat#s unusual because -ondon is generally .uite foggy. -et me look at the clock.% 'ook for the !ce of "pades. .t will fall at the exact hour the spectator chose. .f for example it sits at six o*clock it means he has six cards in his pocket. /ake the announcement as though reading his mind. $I believe the hour you thought of was six o#clock. Is that correct Please remove the cards from your pocket and count them onto my palm, one at a time.% !t this poin the trick seems to be over but you will now make it a miracle. $$ow, will you please look at my clock on the table and see what card falls at six o#clock.% He will name the !ce of "pades. $If you remember, before we began our experiment, I made a prediction of somehting that was going to happen. Please look at the prediction and read it aloud.% He will read $TH+ "+'+0T+1 0!21 3.'' #+ TH+ !0+ 45 ")!1+".% &/agic with cards(