Eddie Joseph’s Premonition took the magic world by storm, although many magicians tried performing the routine, it had its flaws. This version is likely the easiest, most direct, and practical version. It is practically self-working and requires no skill.

The routine begins by displaying two decks of cards, a red deck and a blue deck. The spectator selects one of the decks and places it in their pocket. The remaining deck, let’s assume it is the blue deck, is spread on the table to show 52 different cards. One of those cards is selected by the spectator and placed to one side.

The spectator then takes their red deck and starts dealing the cards face up, counting as they go along, to find out the position to their selection in the red deck. Amazingly there are only 51 cards, and their selection is the card that is missing.

But you are not done yet. The card that was originally selected from the blue deck is turned over to show that it has a red back and is the actual missing card.

This handling was first released and taught by Stan Lobenstern in 1968. That original version has since been fine tuned and improved with ideas by Dan Garrett, Duke Stern, and Charles Pecore.

The PDF teaches you how to assemble the special decks and perform the routine. You will need to supply three normal decks of cards.

A Meir Yedid Magic product. Digital edition published by Meir Yedid in 2024. Written by Dan Garrett. Originally released on CD in 2012, 14-pages, digital PDF.