Attaboy

ATTA BOY

The Attaboy is one of the finest mental magic effects on the market today. The original creation is credited to Jack Hughes, who made several different models working on the same basic principle. This Bellboy model is patterned after the first model from which the trick got its name. The apparatus resembles a cutout of a Bellboy, with two houlettes, one at his feet, and one near his hands. The houlettes will hold a deck of cards, and cutout fronts in the houlettes enable the audience to see inside. A pack of cards is displayed. This is an ordinary pack, which may be examined and shuffled by the audience or you could even use a borrowed deck if conditions permit. Spectator freely selects one or more cards (the original Jack Hughess routine specified three cards). The cards are noted, shown to the audience, and shuffled back into the pack. The pack is placed in the houlette at the bottom. The cards are now taken one at a time from the houlette at the bottom, passed slowly in front of the Bellboys eyes, and dropped in to the houlette on top. The Spectators are invited to call "Stop” whenever they like. When they call stop, the card stopped at, which is still in performers hand is turned around to show the face, and it is one of the selected cards. This is repeated for the other selected cards. The trick is absolutely amazing, because there is no force of a card, and the spectators are free to stop you at any card as you slowly transfer them one at a time from the houlette at the bottom to the houlette on top. The cards stopped at are the very same cards selected by the audience. They may even be signed if you so wish.