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The cards are swapped. Focus Secret

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Focus Description:

The card is shown to the viewer and placed face down on the table, the second is placed on it. The first card is returned to the deck. The magician, flipping through the deck, makes two cards swap places.

Focus secret:

1. Ask the spectator to carefully shuffle the deck.

2. Take the deck from him, line it up and at the same time make a gap under the top two cards, allowing you to make a double rise. Tell the audience that you are going to do a little experiment in the art of making the cards swap places. Say, "For example, let's take the top card from the deck." Take, using the double lift, the top two cards, look at the card (this will be the second card from the top) and call it: "nine of clubs."

3. Show the cards to the audience and again place two cards on top of the deck.

4. Continue: "We'll put the nine of clubs on the table." Place the top card of the deck, which is certainly not the nine of clubs, face down on the table. Say, "Now let's take the second card from the deck." As you say this, prepare yourself for the second double lift you are about to do.

5. Now, as you know, the nine of clubs has become the top card of the deck. But when you take the top two cards with a double lift, you show the audience the next card after it - let it be a dozen of diamonds. Returning the two raised cards to the deck, say: "We will put the ten of diamonds on the table next to the nine of clubs." Taking the top card, that is, the nine of clubs, put it to the right of the first card at a distance of about 2,5 cm so that there is no confusion where which card is.

6. Say: "Now I will take the nine of clubs and put it back on top of the deck." Take the first card and put it on top of the deck. Tell the audience, "Now we have a nine of clubs on top of the deck and a ten of diamonds on the table. I'm going to have them switch places."

7. Holding the deck in your left hand, flip through the cards with your right. By saying something like "I think that's enough for my experiment - it's not that easy", you make a gap under the top two cards so that you can do a double lift a third time.

Demonstrating this trick, you do a double rise three times. This is a simple manipulation - you will master it easily if you practice - but for it you need to make a gap with your left little finger between the two top cards and the rest of the cards of the deck. You must do this before you say: "Let's take the top card of the deck." - because after these words, the public will watch how your hand takes the "top" card, and it will be too late to make a gap. Get into the habit of holding the deck in your left hand and aligning it with your right while talking to the audience. Then you can make a gap in advance and make a double raise almost before you tell the public that you want to show them the top card.

8. Raise the top two cards with a double raise and show them to the audience, saying: "If I did it, then it should be a ten of diamonds." When the audience sees that it is indeed a ten of diamonds, turn it around to see for yourself, and pretend to be pleased and relieved when you see that it is indeed a ten of diamonds. Put the two cards back on top of the pack, saying, "And of course, if the cards are actually reversed, the one on the table will be the nine of clubs." Pick it up and show it to the public so they can see it's true.

Author: Arnold Peter

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