This effect is a strong 'out of this world' type routine in which I have combined ideas from J.K.Hartman and Ron Ferris.

EFFECT: A spectator magically separates the red and the black cards!

PERFORMANCE: Remove fourteen red cards and fourteen black cards and place them in this order from the top down: One black card, 14 red cards and 13 black cards. Leave the rest of the deck aside.

Hand the pile face down to a spectator and ask him to turn the top card (black) of the packet face up. Ask him to move this card (leaving it face up) to the bottom of the packet.

Ask him to turn the next card (red) face up and place this card face up onto the table. Ask him to begin dealing the rest of the cards, face down in the following manner: He is to place the cards he thinks are black on the bottom of the packet in his hands and the cards he thinks are red onto the table, keeping them face down.

As he proceeds to deal the cards, mentally count them. After he has dealt twelve cards, stop him. Ask him to turn the card which is now on the top, face up. Have him place this card (red) face up on the bottom. Ask him to turn over the next card (black) and have this card placed face up on the table starting a new pile.

He now deals the cards that he thinks are black onto the tabled card and the cards he thinks are red he places underneath the packet, keeping them all face down. He deals and when the first face up card appears, he places it on the bottom once again.

Take the packet from the spectator and spread it reaching the first indicator (face up card). Place this card and the cards above it on the table. Place the other cards that are in your hands on the table as they are. (You have four piles.) Turn over the cards on top of each indicator to show they match the colors of their indicators.

Turn all the cards face down leaving the four packets separated and in a row. The colors must be alternated. Lets say that from left to right the packets are black (A), red (B), black (C), and red (D). Pick up the remainder of the deck and fan it with the faces toward you. Take a black card and without showing its face, ask the spectator to indicate one of the four piles on the table. Place this card onto the indicated pile. Repeat this with all the black cards, one by one. Leave the red cards face down on the table.

The right hand assembles the packets by placing A onto B then the two packets onto C and the three packets onto D. Pick up and turn over the deck. Spread the cards between the hands taking all the red cards (on the face of the deck) and place them in a spread on the table (at A). Take all the black cards and place them in a separate spread on the table (at B). Repeat with all the following red cards (placing them at C) and finally spread and leave on the table (at D) the last bunch of black cards. Square each packet and turn it face down leaving them again in the same order (A,B,C,D) on the table.

Give the remainder of the deck face down (all red cards) to a spectator. Invite him to shuffle the cards and, without looking at them, to deal them onto the four tabled packets at random. When he's finished, assemble the packets once again using the previous procedure.

Turn the deck over and spread the cards between the hands. Separate the first bunch of black cards, then the red, then the black and then the red as you did before.