This effect is a very strong one and bound to create a great reaction. The original idea belongs to J.K. Hartman.

EFFECT: A spectator selects twelve cards. The magician announces that this is the famous Jack of Spades Trick. The spectator eliminates eleven cards and the last one is the Jack of Spades! The other cards are seen to be the remaining face cards!

SET-UP: Start with the 12 face cards on top of the deck. The top card is the Jack of Spades.

PERFORMANCE: Keep the deck face down in the left hand. Cut the JS to the bottom. Say that you will perform the famous Jack of Spades Trick. Start to deal the cards into the right hand without reversing their order, asking a spectator to touch one card. You must control the deals that the card the spectator touches will be below the top eleven cards. Out-jog the card he selects, leaving it protruding forward a couple of inches.After the first card has been touched, the spectator must touch eleven more cards from those that are below the first one. Every time he touches one card, out-jog it so that at the end you will have twelve cards out-jogged. If among the twelve chosen cards the spectator selected the bottom one (JS), the left hand strips out these cards (Figure 1) as the right hand places the deck face down on the table.

It the spectator does not select the bottom card, Buckle the bottom card. The right hand takes the deck from above by inserting the right forefinger into the break. Draw the deck inward. The bottom card remains in the left hand until the outer ends of the out-jogged cards are almost even with the buckled card. See figure 2. Strip out the thirteen cards and leave the deck aside. This is the Vernon Strip Out Addition. Tell the spectator to imagine that he touched the twelve face cards.

Say that there are four Jacks among the twelve face cards. Obtain a break above the bottom two cards. Have the spectator touch any four cards that he thinks are the four Jacks. Every card he touches is out-jogged as before. If he touches the bottom card (really two as one) among the four, strip out the four/five cards taking them in the left hand and leave the other cards face down on the table in a separate packet. If the four cards the spectator touches do not include the JS, repeat the Vernon Strip Out Addition adding the JS at the bottom of the packet. Either way you will have five cards in your left hand.

Fan the cards showing four, keeping the last two as one. Ask a spectator to touch two cards that he thinks are the two black and out-jog them as before. If he touches one indifferent card and the bottom two as one, remove these cards and drop the others aside. If he does not select the bottom card(s), repeat the Vernon Strip Out Addition.

You now have three cards in the left hand. Ask the spectator if he thinks that the JS is the top or bottom card. If he selects the bottom card, take the top two cards as one with the right hand and deposit them onto the tabled pile. If he selects the top card, slide it (top card) inward with the right hand about one inch. Bring the right middle finger onto the second card and the forefinger on the top card. Move the right hand forward sliding the two cards forward and stop when the right thumb contacts the bottom card. The top and bottom cards will be aligned. The right hand removes the out-jogged card and places it onto the other two cards that are kept as on. Point to the top card and say, "This is the card that you didn't want." The right hand removes the top two cards as one and deposits it (them) onto the tabled pile.

Leave the single card on the table. Pick up the deck and while you are talking to the audience, Overhand Shuffle the top eleven cards in the left hand, in-jogging the eleventh, and shuffling the remainder of the cards. Take the deck in the left hand and with the right thumb, push down on the in-jogged card so that the little finger of the left hand can obtain a break above it. Ask the spectator to turn over the tabled card.

While the spectator does so, revealing (with great surprise) the JS, the right hand picks up from above the tabled packet. Bring this packet onto the deck, lift all the cards above the break (leaving in the left hand the bottom eleven cards) and place this portion on the table.

After a short pause, fan the eleven card packet and turn it face up to show the other face cards for a stunning finale!