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spectator is told to make a mental note of any ONE and to remember its position. You now push off the top card with your left thumb. Your right hand takes the card and displays it. Your left thumb now pushes of the next card. The right hand takes this next card in FRONT of the last and continues this way until let's say NINE cards are dealt off. We'll use nine for our example, it can be a different number if you like. The right hand now drops its group of cards face down onto the table. Continue showing and counting the cards (silently to yourself) in the same manner with the right hand taking each card in front of the previous one. Remember when counting, after dropping the first lot (in our example Nine) to begin the next batch as Ten ... Eleven ... etc. When all of the remaining cards in the left hand have been shown with the right, place that group on top of the first (on the table). You should now have two numbers in your mind. The number of the first batch (Nine) and the total number of cards in the packet. Let's say, for example, you had 26 cards in all. You're now going to subtract the number in the first batch from the total in the packet. 26 - 9 = 17. All you have to remember now is the result (17). The entire effect hinges on this innocent subterfuge of placing one card in front of the other and dropping the first packet with a known number of cards. Both of these things go completely unnoticed. Continue with the presentation. Hand the spectator the cards and have him transfer one card from the top of the packet to the bottom to equal the position at which his card originally stood. Once he's done that, he is told to turn over each card from the top and name it outloud. All you have to do is silently count down as he does this until he reaches the 17th card (in this instance). It will be his card! With good patter, this is a suprisingly strong effect and it works with a borrowed and shuffled deck! Enjoy! Best regards,
Patrick Trickshop.com Email: patrick@trickshop.com Our copy and images are Copyright 2006 by Trickshop.com. All rights reserved. Please feel free to link to this publication online, however please do not resell or redistribute this content in any form.
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