Six Mix by Emerson and West

Effect: Four cards are fanned face down. Magician claims that one of the cards is an odd one. He turns them face up and shows a large number six printed on the face of the bottom card. He deals this card face-down on the table. He shows that the next two cards are also sixes and are all the same color. He states that the next card (the fourth one) is the odd card. He shows his to be a nine, which he deals face down on the other three cards, and shows it also to be the same color as the other three. He then mixes the cards and asks the spectator to give him a number from one to four. Performer deals the cards and places the one at the spectator’s desired number in front of the others.

By this time, the audience is convinced that he has been spoofing them as everyone is aware that a 6 upside-down is a 9. Magician says that if the spectator had selected the first card it would really have been a six, the second a seven, the third an eight, and the fourth or selected card is really a nine and an odd card and all the cards are different colors. $3.00. It is marketed in a plastic pocket case with full instructions.

(Ed Mishell – Genii Magazine, December 1974)
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