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Effect: The magician tosses a sealed envelope on the table and asks the spectator to make a choice between several different options. Whatever they choose, the magician very cleanly opens the envelope and allows the spectator to pull out the one and only paper inside that perfectly predicts the choice they made.
Method: This is my own version of a very clean looking multiple outs envelope that is completely resettable. Enjoy . . .
Requirements: 5 pay envelopes, scissors, a glue stick, and a repositionable glue stick (the kind used for post-it notes).
Step 1: Cut off the flaps on BOTH sides of one of the envelopes and discard the flaps. This envelope tube will be the main body of your gimmicked envelope.
Step 2: Cut off and discard the front sides of your remaining four envelopes, leaving only the flaps with the backs of the envelopes attached to them.
Step 3: Lay down a strip of glue along the back top edge of one of the flaps with the glue stick and stick another flap to it back to back. Do this with the other two flaps as well.
Step 4: Cut about a quarter of an inch off the bottom from both of the pairs of flaps stuck together and shave off a few millimeters from the sides so that they can slide in and out of your envelope tube very easily. Now take one of the pairs of flaps stuck back to back and lay down a strip of glue along the front bottom on each side.
Step 5: Slide the pair of flaps stuck together into the envelope tube and let the glue stick to the insides of the tube.
Step 6: Do the same exact thing with the other pair of flaps stuck together and you should now have an envelope that opens up four different ways into four different compartments.
Step 7: Now just lay down some repositionable glue on each of the flaps so that they will stay down. You can easily open them up and, thanks to the repositionable glue, close them right back up just as easily. Instead of putting down a mark to orient yourself, just look for where the seam is on the envelope and you’ll know which flap opens up into which compartment.
If you’re worried about the spectators seeing through the envelope, you can easily spray paint the outside black. This is a perfect multiple outs envelope if you’re doing walk-around because of it’s ability to reset. There are so many possible uses for this envelope that it’s really up the imagination where you want to go with it. Predict a named coin, predict a named card (if you know Kenton’s Kolossal Killer), predict which one of four objects someone would choose, predict which one of four chairs someone will sit in, or which one of four chairs three people won’t sit in . . . there really are so many possible uses for this envelope. I’ll leave that up to you to think up.