The magician then hands the spectator a sealed envelope. The spectator opens the envelope and inside is a prediction naming the selected card.

The Whamo Deck allows any spectator to name any card and at the same time lets the magician produce a prediction that matches the selected card. The prediction can be inside a Card To Wallet wallet, an envelope or anywhere else the magician wants it to be.

How self-working a miracle this is depends very much on how adept you are at card to wallet type sleights, specifically palming a card off the top of the deck. The deck itself sets you up, but from that point on the handling is of your own choosing.

Props

The deck can be made up with either type of prediction card: blank faced with prediction written on it or indifferent card with prediction written on back.

The Whamo Deck is actually two decks of cards, although only one deck is shown to the audience depending on the color of the suit selected.

Each deck consists of 26 cards from a normal deck and 26 prediction cards. The prediction cards can be either blank faced playing cards with a prediction written on the face or regular cards with the prediction written on the back.

The decks are set up as follows. Separate the 26 black cards and 26 red cards from a normal deck into two piles. Mix each pile thoroughly so the cards are in random order.

Add a prediction card behind each card. This prediction card, be it a blank faced card or indifferent card from another pack, has a prediction written on it using a black marker. This reads something like "I think you thought of (name of card which the prediction card is behind). "

After writing out the 52 predictions, you will now have two full decks of cards. One deck will contain the 26 red cards interleaved with 26 prediction cards. The other deck is setup the same with 26 black cards and 26 matching prediction cards.

Place each Whamo Deck in a card case. Then put one deck in your left pocket and one deck in your right pocket, remember which is red and which is black.