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Focus Description:

The viewer puts the fingers of his left hand like a fan on the table, as if playing the piano. Two cards are placed between every two fingers. Similarly, two cards are placed between the fingers of the right hand, but only one card is placed between the index finger and thumb. Pairs of cards are separated: one is placed in one pile, the other in another. The spectator places the unpaired card in any pile of his choice. But the magician makes the unpaired card change its pile!

Focus secret:

This is a simple trick that works on its own. After it, you must quickly move on to the next, because if the public has time to think, it will reveal the secret.

1. Ask a spectator, let's call her Katya, to put her fingers on the table so that you can place cards between them. Starting with the gap between the little finger and the ring finger of her left hand, place two cards at a time, asking her to close her fingers so that the cards stand straight. Continue by placing two cards between each two fingers, ending at the gap between the index finger and thumb. Now do the same with the right hand, but when you reach the gap between the index and thumb, place only one card there, drawing the attention of the public that there will be only one card.

2. Say, "I'm going to take each pair of cards in turn and put one card in one pile, the other in another." Begin by taking a pair of cards located between the little finger and ring finger of the left hand and placing one card on the left and the other on the right. Say, "Here's one pair." Take the next two cards and arrange them in piles, saying: "Here is another pair."

3. When you reach the unpaired card between the index and thumb of your right hand, you will have two stacks of cards in front of you. Tell Katya: "There is only one unpaired card left. Which pile do you want to put it in? You can choose any."

4. Katya will put an unpaired card in one of the piles - no matter which one. Now say, pointing to the pile in which Katya put the last card: "In this pile we have an unpaired card. I am going to use my hidden magical abilities to transfer this card to another pile."

5. Pat the pile containing the unpaired card and mutter any small spell, then pick up the pile and deal the cards in two piles as you did before, saying "Here's a pair and here's a pair", etc. Strangely unpaired the card will disappear.

6. Say, "It worked. The unpaired card is gone. All that's left is to check if it really moved to another pile." Take another pile and count the pairs. Oddly enough, at the end you will find that one card is left without a pair. Say, "Oh, there she is. The world is still full of unexplained mysteries."

If you think carefully, you will understand that since there are only nineteen cards, the pile without an additional card will only have nine cards, while the pile pointed to by Katya will contain ten.

Author: Arnold Peter

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