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The magician turns the aces into four other cards.

Focus secret:

Focus is done in the following way. You begin by declaring that you need the assistance of some spectator who has a habit of not believing anything he is told.

Everyone takes this as a joke, but for your trick it is really better to use the help of a person who does not take anything for granted until he sees it with his own eyes. You ask him to come to your table.

Having chosen four aces from a deck, you ask him to say aloud what cards they are, holding them up at the same time so that everyone can see them. Then, putting the aces face up on the table, you hand him the rest of the cards and ask him to testify in front of everyone if there is any feature in the cards and if there are other aces in the deck.

He gives a negative answer. Then, you take the deck face down in your left hand and, taking four aces with your right hand, place them on top; while moving the cards slightly. Then, you take the aces one by one and, without showing them, place them face down on the table.

Addressing your assistant, you say: "I put these four aces on the table. You assume that these are four aces." Having not seen the face of the cards since they were put back on the deck, and noticing the slight rustling you made while moving the cards, in all probability he will say that he cannot allow such a thing to happen.

By turning them face down, you show that these four cards are indeed four aces, and put them back on the deck, move the cards, and deal four aces face down, as before.

You again ask your assistant if he is quite sure this time that these four cards are aces? It may happen that he is still not sure, but if he agrees, you ask him what bet he is ready to make that these cards are really aces and that you have not changed them with your "magical" power.

He will, of course, be afraid to bet and you will notice: "I can tell by your expression that you were not completely satisfied. I fear that you have a great lack of faith; but, since I cannot perform a trick until you are quite convinced, then, for the sake of preserving my reputation, I will show you the cards again.

You do this and put them back on the deck, but before you put the cards, put the little finger of your left hand under the top card of the deck. Remove the aces again with the index finger and thumb of the right hand, at the same time capturing this top card with them.

Then, making a careless movement of your right hand towards the spectators so as to show them the face of the bottom card, the one you have just added, you continue:

“I absolutely cannot understand what makes you so incredulous. There are aces (you put those five cards back on the deck), I take them one by one, like this, and put them on the table. There is no doubt that there is no forgery here. Does everyone fully agree that these aces are now lying here?

Since the spectators noticed, according to your intention, that the fifth or bottom card was not an ace, they naturally infer from this that the aces were somehow substituted by other cards, and when you ask the question for the last time, you hear a sharply negative answer.

You say, assuming an offended air: "Really, if you are all so incredulous, then it is better for me to leave at once. I hope that you will finally confess your unfounded suspicions."

Then, turning to the one who helps you, you continue: "Since my every action is a subject of suspicion, would you be so kind as to show the society that these are aces, and put them back on the deck?"

He does it. But while this little bickering is going on, you took advantage of it to count and hide in the palm of your right hand the top five cards of the deck.

It need hardly be said that you must not look at your hands while doing this. The way to count is to push the cards forward one by one with the thumb and stop them with the third finger of the left hand.

A very small exercise is enough to be able to count by touch any number of cards in this way with the greatest ease.

When the aces are again placed on top of the deck, you shift the deck from your left hand to your right; thus, covering them with cards hidden in the palm of your hand, placing the entire deck face down on the table, you ask:

"Do you mind telling me where the aces are now?" A confident answer is usually heard: "At the top of the deck." Without taking the decks in your hands, you take off one by one the top four cards and place them face down on the table, as before; then, taking the fifth card and showing it to the public, say:

"You see that there are no more aces left, but if you like, you can look through the deck."

As you say this, you pick up the cards and sort through them quickly, turning their faces towards the audience, being careful, however, to show any of the top five, of which four are real aces.

Then, turning to your assistant, you ask him to put his hand on these four cards and hold them as tightly as possible. Holding the deck in your left hand, you take the top card of the deck with the index finger and thumb of your right hand, which is the only one left of those five cards hidden in your palm and placed on top of the aces, and say:

"Now I will take any four cards one by one and exchange them for the four aces that are in the hands of this gentleman. See how easy it is to do.

I take the first card that comes across (here you show the front side of the card that you are holding, let's say seven of diamonds); I don’t put it back in the deck, even for a moment, but just touch it to my hand - and it will turn into an ace, let’s say, a spade (which you show).

At the word "I put it back in the deck," you move the card towards the deck, which is taken as a simple pointing movement, and at the same moment exchange it in the third way for the top card of the deck of one of the aces.

The seven of tambourines is now on the top of the deck, and the other three aces are directly behind it. You should not show this seven of diamonds a second time and therefore you need to delete it. The best way to do this is as follows. Do you notice:

"In order to show you," that I take the cards as I have to, I shuffle them. "And you shuffle according to the first method of" juggling ", which can be changed as follows.

First, throw only one top card (seven of tambourines) into your right hand, through it the next three, three aces, and the rest of the cards as it will. When all the cards are thrown in this way to the right hand, shuffle them again somehow, but try at the end of the shuffle to transfer the four bottom cards to the top.

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You will now have three aces at the top, and seven diamonds below them in fourth place. By removing the top card and quickly slipping it into your assistant's hand, you show that it is also an ace; you do the same with the next card, making a fake shuffle if you like.

After the third ace is shown, make a fake shuffle and finally leave the last ace on top covered by one card. You do this by moving the two bottom cards from below during the shuffle, instead of the bottom one (ace).

Taking the top card with the thumb and forefinger of your right hand, and casually showing it so that the public may notice that it is not an ace, you place it for a moment in the pack, saying:

"I believe we had three aces. Which one is missing?" Here you glance at the aces lying on the table. "There is not enough ace of diamonds, therefore, the card I hold should turn into an ace of diamonds." In the meantime, you have made an exchange and by turning the card you were holding, you show that it is an ace of diamonds.

You can, if you like, use the first method of "swapping" instead of the third, but the first method requires more dexterity in order not to be detected; and the movement required by the third method at this time has the advantage of appearing to be a natural accompaniment to the magician's words.

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