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Here's a Good One for You
Here's How by Frank Lane
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HERE'S A GOOD ONE FOR YOU
A deck is shuffled by spectator. You have him cut the deck in half and you
take one-half and spread it face up on table. Now take the other half and
spread it face up in the same way, somewhere below the other half. While
you have your back turned, he takes a card from EITHER SPREAD OUT
HEAP, inserts it in the other heap, shuffles that heap up, and hides the other
heap. You take the heap he shuffled up and locate the card.
This is a dandy to fool a magician with. And you do it, of course, with
anyone's deck. Incidentally, there are no trick cards used in the tricks in this
book.
Lay out the heaps as detailed above, and while you are laying out the
bottom fan on table, you are mentally counting the pips on the upper heap.
But you DISCARD EVERY TEN YOU COME TO. For instance, the cards
starting at the right of the heap are, we'll say, an 8, 9, 3, Queen, ten spot, 4,
5, etc. here's the way you count. Start with the 8, and 9 are 17, but you don't
say 17, you say SEVEN, and discard the 1, then you say 4, because the next
card is a three and your total was 1, now forget any face cards and any ten
spots, so next you would say 8, because 4 and the next card which is a four,
is 8, then the next card is a five spot, so you say THREE, as they both add
to thirteen, but you always discard the ten.
Now, when you run through the pile, you will have some number left like
six or seven or whatever it is it matters not. If there is a seven left over then
there must be THREE LEFT OVER in the bottom pile. Let them take a card
from either pile, put it in the other and shuffle up, and hide the first pile.
All you do is take the pile, ask them which pile they put the card IN, upper
or lower pile, and if they say upper, you spread the cards out again,
counting them the same way as before, and you ALWAYS SUBTRACT the
number you had left in the first place, from the number that is left at the
finish.
Suppose when you go through at finish, and there is 9 left over after all the
tens are discarded, subtract 7 from 9 and you know he took a deuce. Now if
there's two deuces in the pile, work the "A red card?" and if so, toss it out, if
not, immediately pass out the black deuce, etc., etc.
If they said they put the card in the lower pile, you know three was left over
in that heap, and you work in the same manner. I've had them puzzled for a
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long time on this, and I hesitated to include this here, but here it is, and as
the tailor said, suit yourself.
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I Can't be Mean
Here's How by Frank Lane
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I CAN'T BE MEAN
so I won't argue with the guy, but some one says this is old. As far as I know, it
is MINE, and even if there is similarity with something else that produces the
same effect, I still think so much of it, that I include it. It fooled the man who
said the move was familiar to him. That was enough for me. I got the move
from an old color change that I used to do years ago.
The card is selected, and is in center of deck, we'll say. Deck is squared up and
without any pass, or any move that is perceptible to spectator, the top card is
turned over and that's the baby. This is another one that Ten Kai thought a lot
of.
Have the card selected in this way. Riffle the deck, with faces toward audience,
and have them tell you when to stop. When they say stop, you do so, let them
see the card, and your right hand hinges up the right side of the upper half,
your fingers of left hand go in between the two halves, and the tips of your
second and third left fingers, push the card out (see Illus. No. 13.) This
illustration, if you notice carefully, shows the corner of the card being clipped
between the right little finger and third finger tips.
Your right hand now comes away from the deck to the right, just enough to
bring out the card, on a perfectly straight line, (see now FIG. 14) then
immediately goes back to deck, leaves card on top, deck squared up, bottom
card shown, by turning the deck around and you're all done. This should be
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done very fast, and if you DO it fast, you have a nice quick move, with nothing
suspicious about it, to bring a card to the top of the deck from the center. Study
those illustrations again. They tell the story better than my words.
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Now One More and Then You can go to Bed
Here's How by Frank Lane
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NOW ONE MORE AND THEN YOU
CAN GO TO BED
Here's an easy one but another one of my favorites, it fools them so easily.
And you'd THINK they'd get it. But they don't.
Have the deck shuffled, and then you take it, fan it out and have any card
selected. Now square up the deck, and with right hand you cut the deck,
lifting off the top part and have the card replaced on the top of the lower
half. Now slap the top half down on top of lower, but just as you're putting
the top half down, put your little finger above the bottom half, and then
square up deck.
NOW you're all ready to make the
pass, BUT YOU DON'T MAKE
THE PASS. Your left hand hinges
over the top half, exactly as in the
pass, your right hand lifts up the
bottom half, turns it face up, and
now your hands are EXACTLY
AS IN FIGURE 11. EXACTLY,
with your left forefinger pointing
to the face card of the packet in
right hand, and you are saying, as
you do this, "Now this isn't that old
gag of putting your card next to the
seven of clubs (or whatever card is
on face) but so you'll be sure, I'll put your card down here some place." And
your left thumb pushes over the top card of left hand packet, and pushes it
in between the tips of the little finger and third fingers of right hand (the
right hand packet is held still as in illustration,).
KEEPING THE CARD FACE DOWN AND LEVEL, your left thumb
riffles the portion in left hand, and your right fingers now insert the card in
the center somewhere of the left hand portion. This is apparently their card,
but when you throw the top portion on the bottom portion, all you do is turn
over the top card and that is their card. I usually get a peek of the card as in
Illus. 12, and besides making it appear on top, I tell them the name of it also
before turning it over.
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The success of this trick depends on your nonchalance, and the manner that
you do it. You will be tickled to death, after you get it down, how easy
you'll fool fellows who really know card tricks. Don't pass it up.
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Now We're Done
Here's How by Frank Lane
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NOW WE'RE DONE
I've tried to give you some information that I trust you LIKED. Walker did
a wonderful clear job on the illustrations and Dave Brown deserves
congratulations on the make-up and cover of this, my 10th book to the
magical fraternity. And thanks muchly, John, for the preface. If I [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]