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glided card and hold it face downwards, counting 'Seven.'
'Here is your card,' you say confidently. 'Will you now for the first time name your card?'
8. The spectator names the card you hold. Here is where your ability to act convincingly will be of prime importance. Pretend to be taken aback upon hearing the card named. Repeat its name and glance covertly at the card on the table which the spectators believe to be the chosen card.
Usually at this point someone, with no little glee, will tell you that the chosen card is on the table and that you have made a mistake. Occasionally, because of courtesy, no one will fall into the trap. In either case, after a moment you brighten and say, 'That's right. Here's the card!' Turn over the card you hold and show that it is the required card.
It is at this point that the trick is most enjoyable. You will find invariably that someone will reach for the tabled card, which should be, but is not, the chosen card. The laughter and puzzlement which this action provokes will repay you a hundredfold for the slight effort you have made in mastering the trick.
The Observation Test
The glide, as we have shown, is a useful sleight with which many effects can be had. This one enables you to vanish one card and make another appear in its place.
1. Shuffle the pack, have a card drawn and noted, and when it is replaced control it to the face of the pack by means of the overhand shuffle control.
2. Turn the pack with the face towards yourself, so that no one can see the cards, and run through them, removing the four two-spots and placing them at the face of the pack in black, red, black, red order. 'This is a test of your powers of observation,' you explain. 'I shall use the four two-spots to make the test.'
3. Remove the five cards at the face of the pack without showing how many you take. Turn them face downwards and hold them in the left hand in readiness for the glide. The top card is the chosen card and under it are the four two-spots.
4. 'I shall ask you to remember the sequence of the colours,' you continue. Remove the bottom card with the right hand and deal it face upwards on the table, calling its colour, 'Red.'
5. Deal the card now at the bottom face upwards on the first card in the same way. 'Black.'
6. Glide back the card now at the bottom. Remove the two cards above it as one by grasping them at the outer end between the right thumb, above, and the fingers, below. As they are drawn from the left hand, press against their sides with the left index finger and thumb, thus keeping the two cards in perfect alignment. Deal these two cards face upwards as one upon the first two cards, saying 'Black.' The cards should be dealt neatly one on top of the other.
7. Take the last card, saying, 'And this naturally must be red.' Show it, drop it face upwards on the other cards. You have shown four cards and all are two-spots. Pick them up, square them with the face towards yourself and mix the cards without revealing how many you hold. Be sure that the chosen card is third from the top when you finish. 'A good mixing,' you say, turning them face downwards. Take them in your left hand in readiness for the glide.
8. 'I'll do that again.' Repeat the actions from step 4 to step 6 and you will hold one card face downwards in your left hand. This is the chosen card.
9. Place it face downwards to your right. Pick up the other cards, place them on the pack and hold the pack in your hands. 'This is where I test your powers of observation,' you explain. 'You see, I made you think that you should observe the colour of the cards as I dealt the two-spots. That was a trick, for now I want you to tell me the suit of the last card.' As you say this, idly cut the pack, thus burying the other cards.
10. The spectators may succeed or fail in naming the proper two-spot, but no matter what their answer, you say, 'I'm sorry, but you were observing the colours so closely that you failed to notice the values on
'Here is your card,' you say confidently. 'Will you now for the first time name your card?'
8. The spectator names the card you hold. Here is where your ability to act convincingly will be of prime importance. Pretend to be taken aback upon hearing the card named. Repeat its name and glance covertly at the card on the table which the spectators believe to be the chosen card.
Usually at this point someone, with no little glee, will tell you that the chosen card is on the table and that you have made a mistake. Occasionally, because of courtesy, no one will fall into the trap. In either case, after a moment you brighten and say, 'That's right. Here's the card!' Turn over the card you hold and show that it is the required card.
It is at this point that the trick is most enjoyable. You will find invariably that someone will reach for the tabled card, which should be, but is not, the chosen card. The laughter and puzzlement which this action provokes will repay you a hundredfold for the slight effort you have made in mastering the trick.
The Observation Test
The glide, as we have shown, is a useful sleight with which many effects can be had. This one enables you to vanish one card and make another appear in its place.
1. Shuffle the pack, have a card drawn and noted, and when it is replaced control it to the face of the pack by means of the overhand shuffle control.
2. Turn the pack with the face towards yourself, so that no one can see the cards, and run through them, removing the four two-spots and placing them at the face of the pack in black, red, black, red order. 'This is a test of your powers of observation,' you explain. 'I shall use the four two-spots to make the test.'
3. Remove the five cards at the face of the pack without showing how many you take. Turn them face downwards and hold them in the left hand in readiness for the glide. The top card is the chosen card and under it are the four two-spots.
4. 'I shall ask you to remember the sequence of the colours,' you continue. Remove the bottom card with the right hand and deal it face upwards on the table, calling its colour, 'Red.'
5. Deal the card now at the bottom face upwards on the first card in the same way. 'Black.'
6. Glide back the card now at the bottom. Remove the two cards above it as one by grasping them at the outer end between the right thumb, above, and the fingers, below. As they are drawn from the left hand, press against their sides with the left index finger and thumb, thus keeping the two cards in perfect alignment. Deal these two cards face upwards as one upon the first two cards, saying 'Black.' The cards should be dealt neatly one on top of the other.
7. Take the last card, saying, 'And this naturally must be red.' Show it, drop it face upwards on the other cards. You have shown four cards and all are two-spots. Pick them up, square them with the face towards yourself and mix the cards without revealing how many you hold. Be sure that the chosen card is third from the top when you finish. 'A good mixing,' you say, turning them face downwards. Take them in your left hand in readiness for the glide.
8. 'I'll do that again.' Repeat the actions from step 4 to step 6 and you will hold one card face downwards in your left hand. This is the chosen card.
9. Place it face downwards to your right. Pick up the other cards, place them on the pack and hold the pack in your hands. 'This is where I test your powers of observation,' you explain. 'You see, I made you think that you should observe the colour of the cards as I dealt the two-spots. That was a trick, for now I want you to tell me the suit of the last card.' As you say this, idly cut the pack, thus burying the other cards.
10. The spectators may succeed or fail in naming the proper two-spot, but no matter what their answer, you say, 'I'm sorry, but you were observing the colours so closely that you failed to notice the values on
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