Blindsight

THE BLURB:
One of the most talked about effects at the 2006
Mindvention. It virtually fooled anyone who saw it.

The very latest from Devin Knight's Psychic-Sight series.
The first was Farsight and was a runaway hit. Now comes
Blindsight.

Effect

Performer patters that Blindsight is the apparent ability to
see colors and shapes which cannot be seen. You offer a
simple experiment. You introduce 4 ungimmicked colored
cards: Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow. These in turn are
sealed into 4 opaque envelopes and mixed so that the
spectator doesn't know which color is in which envelope. You
ask him to point to any envelope. Free choice, no magician's
force of any kind. You hold it up and ask him what color he
thinks is inside. Assume he says Blue. You write "Blue" on
the envelope. This is repeated 3 more times with the person
freely pointing to any of the remaining envelopes. Each time
he states the color he thinks is inside and the performer
writes it on the envelope.

Performer fans the envelopes out allowing the person to see
the names written on each envelope. Magician states he only
needs three envelopes for the first part and for the person
to remove one envelope and place it off to the side. Let's
assume he discards the envelope with the word Yellow written
on it.

The other three envelopes are opened one at a time, the
spectator has correctly guess what colors were in each
envelope. This is pretty amazing in itself but the kicker is
still to come.

Magician says nobody could have known what envelope the
spectator would discard off to the side. The spectator, NOT
THE MAGICIAN, picks up this envelope and opens it. Of course
the correct color card is in it, but wait; there is a slip
of paper in it and it reads: "THE YELLOW ENVELOPE WILL BE
THE ONE YOU DISCARD!"

The magician can then show the other envelopes are empty, in
fact all the envelopes can be examined.

Here are the facts:

    * NO Two-Sided color cards
    * NO Nailwriters or Boomwriters
    * NO Secret Writing
    * NO Switches
    * NO Sleights of any kind
    * NO One Ahead or One Behind Methods
    * NO Gimmicked Envelopes
    * NO Magnets
    * NOTHING SECRETLY ADDED OR TAKEN AWAY
    * Color Cards are not gimmicked in anyway
    * Only 4 Cards are used.

The choices are completely free. As clean as it gets. The
handling is designed in such a way that spectators and
magicians will be unable to backtrack and discover the
method.

Another reputation maker that is priced way too low.
Complete with color cards, envelopes, marker and all needed
gimmicks to make this work.

Look what others are saying:

"The directness and simplicity of blindsight is surpassed
only by its impressive cleverness."
- Michael Weber

"The eligantly simple method behind blindsight opened my
eyes...even my third one."
- Docc Hilford

"I changed my mind three times and Devin still nailed me! He
then showed me the method and I was the perfect mark!"
- Bob Sheets

"Without a doubt, this was the best effect of Mindvention
2006."
-JHEFF

MY COMMENTS:
Okay, before I begin, I should say I'm a bit biased because
Devin has used a testimonial I gave him. But, make no
mistake, that quote is totally honest and sincere. It was
the best effect that I personally saw performed there.
Though I was impressed when I saw Devin perform it, I admit
that I thought it was a combination of a couple of old
mentalism principles.

Well, I was wrong. And I was right! It was indeed a
brilliant combination of old mentalism principles, but
different principles than I had guessed, and ones that made
this effect cleaner and more elegant. As you can see from
the above, other top names at Mindvention were fooled.
Devin performed this in the attendee's show and then
performed it TWICE for the "guys." He floored them each
time! I'll keep you in suspense and try to let you figure
out what Devin is doing. Besides, this is a public web
page. I'm not tipping any methods here!

This is a wonderful trick for walk-around and parlour work.
It's not entirely angle-proof, as there is one section of
the routine where you have to be aware of audience
placement, but this is not hard for the experienced worker.
It re-sets easily. The package comes with the envelopes,
the 4 color cards, a rubber band (for the packet), an index
card, some labels, two markers, and 15 pages of Devin's
customary detailed instructions on 8.5" x 11" paper and
stapled.