Diablo – Peter Duffie

Try to Keep the Truth Unseen But You’ll Never Beat the Lie Machine! A card is selected from any deck – say the QC. You introduce an Occult Board – a plastic laminated card with 16 squares printed on it. In each square is printed a word, either, ‘YES’ or ‘NO.’. A second board is laid on the table – this simply contains a list of questions that you will ask. The underside of each board is seen to be covered in question-marks – this is merely design, though an appropriate one – because you now ask the spectator a series of questions about his card. To each question, he can LIE or tell the TRUTH, while moving over the Occult Board in any direction. No matter how he answers, the Occult Board exposes the truth (YES or NO) every time. Finally, the board is turned over and in place of the question-marks seen earlier, mysterious writing has now appeared revealing the full name of the chosen card – ‘Queen of Clubs.’