Magic Ribbon. Effective trick and its solution

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Focus Description:

The spectator selects and memorizes a card. The deck is wrapped with elastic tape, and the spectator places his card in the deck. Another spectator pulls the tape, the tape is removed and the chosen card is found upside down.

Focus secret:

1. Unfold the cards in a fan and ask someone from the audience, let it be Peter, to pull out any card and, without showing it to you, show it to the others.

2. For this trick, you want one card at the face-up end of the deck to be turned over so that both sides of the deck look like the cards are face-down. If you are the first to demonstrate this trick, you can prepare the deck in advance. Otherwise, you need to do it in a way that does not arouse suspicion: either casually turn the card over, distracted by the conversation, or - during the trick itself, telling the audience that you will look away for a second while Peter shows them the card. It is much easier to turn over the top card of the deck than it is to turn over the entire deck. When you show Peter the deck again, it will all be face up except for the top card.

3. Now you take out an elastic band and ask Peter, or better yet someone else, like Emma, to wrap the deck with it. Ask Peter to place the chosen card face down in the middle of the deck. It should be as close to the middle as possible, as the deck will be turned over before you reveal Peter's card, so if he puts the card closer to the bottom of the deck and then it is on top, everything will be revealed. It is better to use cards with a white border on the shirt - so that Peter cannot see that he is putting his card between two cards facing up.

4. Now you have the hardest part - to send the viewer on the wrong track. Lowering your left hand with the cards, say: "And now I'm going to turn over the card of Peter." Add, emphasizing the word "you" and, if necessary, pointing your finger at the audience so that they look at your face: "Or rather, you will do it." As you say this, place your left hand, which contains the cards, palm down on your right hand, and move the cards to your right hand, absentmindedly lining up the deck. In this way, you effectively flip the deck so that all of it, with the exception of the bottom card and the Peter card, is face down.

Focus Magic Ribbon
The magician holds a deck wrapped in elastic band, and the spectator puts his card into it.

5. Now say, "Which of you has the most magical touch? Maybe you, Emma? Maybe you could pull the ribbon?" Emma twitches and you transfer the deck to your left hand, making it obvious this time that the deck is not flipping. With your right hand, you remove the elastic band and fan out the deck. Toward the middle is Peter's card, face up. Say, "Well done, Emma. I guess Peter, did you choose this card?" He agrees and you quickly move on to the next trick. Expand the deck after the Peter card so that the public can see that only one card is face up. But don't turn the deck all the way to the bottom, because that will also reveal the position of the bottom card.

Since the bottom card of the deck is also face up, it will be somewhat difficult for you to move on to the next trick. It is best to proceed as follows. When you fan the deck to the Peter card, take the cards above it into your right hand, tossing them face up. This is easy to do because with the thumb of your left hand you are pushing the Peter card onto the rest of the cards that are face up in your right hand. When you reassemble the entire deck, placing the face-down cards in your left hand on top of the face-up cards in your right hand, do this absently, looking more at the audience than at the cards. Someone in the audience will probably notice the error, then say "Oh, how stupid I am" and bring the deck to standard position. If no one notices anything, "notice" it yourself before you start the next trick, and with an unhappy look, lay the cards properly. While it may seem like you made a stupid mistake by holding half the cards face up and the other half face down, you actually turned over a card that was not in the correct deck.

Author: Arnold Peter

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