Have A Nice Day By Aldo Colombini
Magician Aldo Colombini was originally from
Italy and later settled (and died) in USA. An award winning magician, he has
left his foot print in all branches of Magic. Popular amongst magicians because
he used simple methods to create highly entertaining commercial magic, I always
think of him as Italy’s Karrell Fox.
In one of his “ESSENTIALLY ALDO” video series
(published by L&L Publishing, USA) he has a routine called “Have a nice
day”. When I saw that effect, I liked it very much & wanted to add it to my
repertoire. Later I discovered, my most talented magician friend Mr.Rakesh Syam
used to perform this effect regularly at the dinner table for international
guests in his cruise career.
The effect is as described here:
From a shuffled deck, spectator selects a
card freely (no force), that card is signed by the spectator on it’s face and
later lost in the center of the deck very clearly. Magician removes 4 cards
from the top of the deck and shows the faces to the audience; selected card is
not among them. Cards are turned face down. Magician introduces a smiley face sticker
and explains how a smile is contagious. He further explains the fact stating,
“if I smile, then that will make you smile and gradually the smile will be
viral and force others to smile, even these dead cheap playing cards cannot
save themselves from smiling, it is so contagious, better to give a free demo
here using these four random cards.”
Magician affixes a smiley face sticker to the
back of one of the four cards. That sticker attached card is inserted within
the remaining 3 cards, cards are counted to show there is only one card so far affected
by smiling, i.e. the single card having the smiley sticker on it. Now things go
out of control, when the four card packet displayed again it is found another
one is affected by smiling, because now it is seen one more card is having a
smiley face sticker on it. At the next moment the 3rd one is
affected and finally it is seen all four cards have smiley stickers on their
backs.
Like in real life, smiling does not sustain
forever. It slowly fades away. Here happens the same thing with the cards. One
by one the smiley stickers disappear from the cards, leaving just one card
having the smiley face on it, the original one on
which the sticker was attached. When that card is turned over it is found to be
the “SIGNED SELECTED CARD.” Magician hands over the signed card with his
autograph and contact number on it to the assisting spectator, with an
anticipation of receiving a call from the spectator. But as told by my friend
Rakesh Syam, in his vast experience, he never once received a call from her.
This is the effect. Is it not amazing?
We supply you enough smiley face stickers to
perform the effect at least 300 times. Use your own deck of cards of any brand
& any colour.
Tags: Trick, Intermediate