Before you start, you hand someone a laminated prediction. You now introduce your leather hip-wallet and, as you look away, someone removes and hides three of your credit cards in different pockets about their person. Next, you concentrate then 'verbally' reveal which pocket contains which card! To top this... the laminated prediction, handed out at the start, is now read out and... ALSO correctly states the contents of each pocket!
The VI$A CABARET hip-wallet is an expensive (luxury) On 5th Avenue soft, leather wallet. It is 100% self-working, and automatically re-sets!
You can also use folded bills, playing cards, business cards (for trade show work) etc. There is even a presentation for children's entertainers! (£25.00)
I invented VI$A CABARET, though you should know that there are several minor (some VERY minor) variations on the market.
Wayne Dobson sells 3 Choice. Marc Paul also has a version, which I think he sells, but also very kindly (?) published in an issue of Abracadabra magazine. Bob Swadling, I have been told, sells (or sold) an excellent electronic version. Finally, Andy Nyman published a routine, which was inspired by VI$A CABARET.
However, to my knowledge, I am the only person who sells a hip-wallet version (which I now use professionally), as it takes up far less pocket space than other larger wallets.
Anyhow, if nothing else... wouldn't it be nice (for a change) to buy something from the guy who actually originated it????
If someone were watching you perform VI$A CABARET, they would later recall it something like this...
You handed someone a laminated prediction, for safe keeping. You then invited a man up. He removed three of your credit cards, from your wallet, and pocketed them (in three different pockets) whilst you looked away.
You turned around again, and asked if you could have his permission to use your X-ray vision to look through the material of his trousers and into his pockets. Once he agreed you added, "Good, now that we have two consenting adults... we can continue."
You successfully revealed which credit card was in his first pocket then, as you struggled to reveal the contents of his next pocket you said... "In your right trouser pocket I can see......... a small pork sausage. Oh, sorry... you have a hole in your pocket." You then continued to correctly reveal the card within that pocket!
The credit card in his final pocket was revealed by someone in the audience, who must also have had X-Ray vision???
Incredible as this might sound... you finally asked the person holding the laminated prediction to read it out.
It 100% correctly predicted into which pocket the person helping you would hide each credit card!!!
Note: Once you have bought VI$A CABARET, and have decided on the three credit cards you will use, you can email or write to me and I'll laminate (and send) you a printed prediction specific to your cards!
Don't forget... you need not use credit cards... you could use folded bank notes (bills), playing cards, business cards (for trade show work) or ANY three flat objects. Use your imagination.
I have even used the routine for children... Each of three children (including the birthday child) remove a sealed envelope from your wallet and hold onto it. They open their envelopes and... the birthday child has won a BIG prize (supplied by the parents), whilst the other two have won consolation prizes (supplied by you).