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Spectator
Performs a Trick
Original Author: Unknown
Effect: The magician
asks the spectator whether he knows any card tricks. Whatever
the spectator answers, the magician says "Well, here's a great
trick, only YOU'RE going to perform it." The spectator is
handed a deck and asked to hold it with the cards facing the
magician, the backs towards himself. The magician picks a card
which the spectator removes and places on the table, never
looking at it. The spectator, after some manipulation, ends up
with two piles of cards on the table. The top cards on each
pile are turned over, and one reveals the value of the
selected card while the other reveals the suit.
Card Trick:
This trick is actually not
too difficult, but the effect is astonishing because the
magician never actually handles the deck. The only real skills
necessary are good verbal communications and misdirection.
After the spectator shuffles
the deck, have him fan them in front of his face with the
backs of the cards towards himself. To him to start fanning at
the top of the deck and continue to the bottom. Meanwhile, you
watch for the card that has the same value as the top card and
the same suit as the card second from the top. Note: If these
two cards have the same value or the same suit, the trick
won't work. In this case, ask the spectator whether he cut the
cards. When he says no, tell him to cut the deck and start
over again.
When you find that particular
card, touch it and have him pull it out and place it on the
table face down. Then tell him to think of a number and to
count off that many cards into a neat pile on the table. (This
puts the two pointer cards on the bottom of the pile.) Have
him discard the rest of the cards in his hands, pick up the
pile on the table, and deal the cards alternately into two
piles. (The two pointer cards are now on top of each of the
new piles.) Remember that the last card he deals will show the
value (ace, 2, 3, etc.) of the selected card while the
next-to-last card (the top one on the other pile) will show
the suit. Explain to the spectator that if he has been
concentrating on the card on the table, he will have
subconsciously picked two cards that will respectively reveal
the value and suit of the card that you the magician have
randomly selected. Flip the three cards to reveal that this is
so.
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