Out of Sight-Out of Mind

Out of Sight-Out of Mind is a card effect by Dai Vernon published in Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1960) written by Lewis Ganson.

Effect: The performer takes a shuffled pack and without looking at the faces of the cards while one is being thought of by a spectator, successfully locates the card.

"A Mind-Reading Trick" Expert at the Card Table(1902) was Vernon's inspiration for creating "Out of Sight-Out of Mind".

Here are a few references regarding previous published sources of this trick.

References

• De quatre cartes qu'on fait prendre au hasard dans le jeu, en laisser penser une, et la deviner in Nouvelle Récréations mathématiques et physiques by Gille-Edme Guyot (1769)
• "A Mind-Reading Trick" Expert at the Card Table(1902)
• Mental Discernment manuscript by Ralph W. Hull dated (1930)
• "Shuffle, Force, Cut and Pass" Greater Magic(1938)
• "Streamlined Discernment" Amazing Isn't It?(1941)
• "Mental Discernment Improved" 52 Amazing Card Tricks(1949)