Four robbers. Effective trick and its solution

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Four robbers. Focus Secret

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Focus Description:

The public is shown four jacks, which are placed on top of the deck. They are declared robbers and the deck is the mansion they are about to rob. The first jack should stand upright, leaning on an object on a glass table. He portrays a sentry in the garden. The second jack is placed on the bottom of the deck - he examines the basement. The third jack is placed in the middle of the deck - it searches the dining rooms and other rooms on the ground floor, and the fourth jack is placed closer to the top of the deck - it is "responsible" for the bedrooms. At a signal from the sentinel in the garden, all the jacks rush to the roof to hide - and are again found on top of the deck.

Focus secret:

1. For this trick, you can use a pre-prepared deck, but it is not difficult to prepare it by lazily playing cards before starting the trick or starting your own reprise. You say: "For this trick I need four jacks, although they can be called robbers, because they are known rogues, especially when they come together to play a little naughty."

2. Saying this monologue, find jacks in the deck and at the same time compose it so that the sequence is formed: jack, jack, jack, three simple cards, jack on top. Fan out the deck, hiding the plain cards behind the third jack, so you can show the public four jacks in a row (see picture). Lay the rest of the deck face down on the table.

3. Say: "One dark night, four jacks decided to rob a rich mansion, they wanted to climb onto the roof through the fire escape and get into the house through the window above the door. The deck is the mansion, the four jacks on top are the four robbers." You roll up a fan of jacks and place them face down on top of the deck. The second, third and fourth cards are, of course, not jacks.

Focus Four robbers
Four jacks, folded in a fan, with three common cards between the third and fourth, are shown to the audience. Of course, the audience only sees four jacks and is unaware of the hidden cards.

4. Continue: “But they changed the plan, realizing that it would be better if one of them remained in the garden as a sentry - in case the police showed up. So one of the robbers did not climb onto the roof, he remained in the garden, on guard."

5. Take the top card from the deck, the jack, and set it to rest on any object (such as a wine glass) on the table. Say: "This is the sentry."

6. "The rest of the jacks climbed onto the roof, following the original plan. The first one went to the basement to see what was there." Put the top card closer to the bottom of the deck (this is, of course, not a jack). "The next jack went to the dining room, library and living room." Place the third card in the middle of the deck. "And the last jack was looking for jewels in the bedrooms." Place the fourth card at a distance of a quarter from the top of the deck.

7. Now tell the audience: "While each jack was busy with his work, the policeman walked along the road, stopped near the mansion and walked, walking along the alley, as if checking if everything was in order. Knave in the garden (point to the jack on the table) decided it was risky to issue a danger warning, so he whistled." If you're a good whistle, blow a loud whistle. This will spice up your little show.

8. "Hearing the whistle, all the jacks rushed to the roof, then to go down the fire escape." Showcase the deck. "And here they are, my dears, all on the roof." Turn over the top three cards to show that they are three jacks.

As I said, this is the original version of the focus, which does not require any special skills. However, if you've already mastered the "double raise" manipulation and don't like the way the deck is prepared before the trick, you can force your jacks to be on top of the deck using the Four Aces trick method. It is also used in another four-jack trick called Jumping Jacks.

On the other hand, suppose you perform the jumping jacks trick first. When collecting jacks after this trick, you can fan them out as shown on the previous page and go straight to the Four Robbers trick. Since the audience has seen you just use jacks, they will not be inclined to suspect that you have more than just four jacks in your hand. The reprise in this case should be: "Now you know what these terrible jacks can do, let me tell you a story about a recent vile crime and how they almost managed to get away with it."

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