Mentalex?
After disgusting your audience with a convincing discourse
on mind control, you borrow two stiff hats and place down
up on two chairs about I-1/2 yards apart. Stepping amongst the
multitude you request several to select the card you want
them to, but you have deceived them just the same because
you don't force a card! The cards are returned and you do
the shuffling so that there will be no tricky work. Placing
deck in one lid, you remove cards singly, backs towards
audience and transfer to other hat. One of the selectors is
asked to call stop at any time when a card is half way
across and on naming it is turned around and of course, as
usual, you are right. Repeat with the others if they have
not left.
Because of the bewildering and intricate sleights
necessary for the accomplishment of this problem I use a
three kind force deck to save time in practicing. As there
are at least 15 duplicates of each the spectator is sure
to call stop before very many have passed by because he
wants to see the other acts before he has to go. They
really think it is mind control and that is why they flock
around you after the show and say, "Did you take a course?"
"Were You always good at it?" "Did you get it out of
Popular Science or Science and invention magazine?"