http://bigthink.com<br /><br />Close-up card magic by the master.<br /><br />Question: Would you perform a feat of conjuring?James Randi: I'm a bit of <br />an amateur at shuffling cards. Ho, ho, ho. But when a deck is as <br />thoroughly mixed up as this one is, many people think that there'll be a <br /> red, black, red, black. I'm not talking about suits, now just the <br />color, you see. Red, black, but it doesn't happen that way. For <br />example here, we've got three reds; we don't need the joker in there.James Randi: Yes. And we've got oh, there's another three reds. <br /> No, this is pretty good, the colors -- I'm just looking at the colors <br />now. The colors are pretty well mixed in here other than here's another <br /> joker that we won't use in there. All right. Now. What I'm going to <br />do is, first of all. We suspect that the colors would be pretty well <br />sorted, or alternated all the way through the deck. But I'm going to <br />show you something rather remarkable. Here we have a well shuffled <br />deck, very well shuffled deck. And I want you to come over here and <br />just give me your hand, if you'd be so kind. Step over and join me on <br />the set. Okay? Now just hold, like that with the palm up, a little <br />closer—I see you have a rich future. Yes, well in any case. I want you <br /> to hold half of the cards for me, would you please. And I'll hold the <br />other half. And I'm going to show you something rather remarkable. <br />Look at this. <br />When I turn the back over, watch this. One black card on the top and <br />then all of the rest of them red. Every last one. Wow! And taking a <br />look. Hold those for me, please. One black card on the top just to <br />disguise it, but in this case, each and every one of them black.Recorded April 16, 2010Interviewed by Austin Allen<br /><br />Question: Would you perform a feat of conjuring?James Randi: I'm a bit of <br />an amateur at shuffling cards. Ho, ho, ho. But when a deck is as <br />thoroughly mixed up as this one is, many people think that there'll be a <br /> red, black, red, black. I'm not talking about suits, now just the <br />color, you see. Red, black, but it doesn't happen that way. For <br />example here, we've got three reds; we don't need the joker in there.James Randi: Yes. And we've got oh, there's another three reds. <br /> No, this is pretty good, the colors -- I'm just looking at the colors <br />now. The colors are pretty well mixed in here other than here's another <br /> joker that we won't use in there. All right. Now. What I'm going to <br />do is, first of all. We suspect that the colors would be pretty well <br />sorted, or alternated all the way through the deck. But I'm going to <br />show you something rather remarkable. Here we have a well shuffled <br />deck, very well shuffled deck. And I want you to come over here and <br />just give me your hand, if you'd be so kind. Step over and join me on <br />the set. Okay? Now just hold, like that with the palm up, a little <br />closer—I see you have a rich future. Yes, well in any case. I want you <br /> to hold half of the cards for me, would you please. And I'll hold the <br />other half. And I'm going to show you something rather remarkable. <br />Look at this. <br />When I turn the back over, watch this. One black card on the top and <br />then all of the rest of them red. Every last one. Wow! And taking a <br />look. Hold those for me, please. One black card on the top just to <br />disguise it, but in this case, each and every one of them black.Recorded April 16, 2010Interviewed by Austin Allen
