The card and number match. Effective trick and its solution

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Focus Description:

One of the spectators shuffles, then chooses and remembers one card from the deck unfolded like a fan.

The deck is then divided into two halves, and the spectator is asked to place their card on top of any of the piles. This pile is then shuffled and another spectator is asked to name any number between one and twenty-five. The cards are dealt face down from the bottom of the deck until the magician reaches that number. The spectator who has chosen the card is asked to name it and turn over the card that has just been dealt. This card is chosen by the spectator.

Focus secret:

For this trick, you need to get good at card shifting, as you will have to deal a certain number of cards from the bottom of the deck while holding the bottom card. You will also need to perform two false shuffles.

1. When the spectator, let's call her Julia, takes her card, as accurately as possible, divide the deck into two halves and place two piles face down on the table. Ask Julia to memorize her card and place it face down on any pile. Set the other pile aside and take the pile with the Julia card on top. Tell the spectators that you will completely shuffle the cards and do a fake shuffle 3 to move the card down, then do a fake shuffle 2 a couple more times to keep it there.

2. Now ask another spectator, say Boris, to choose a number between one and twenty-four. Tell him that you split the deck in two to save time and that you think there are about 24 cards in one pile. Suppose Boris calls "fifteen".

3. While you are talking to Boris, bring the cards in your left hand, palm down, into order to allow for a shift. When you have finished talking to Boris, the little finger of your left hand should push the bottom card from the deck (Julia's card) as far as possible into your palm (preferably a couple of centimeters, if you can).

4. Tell the audience that you are going to deal cards on the table from the bottom of the deck until you reach the number named by Boris. In fact, you start dealing from the second card from the bottom of the deck, counting out loud until you really get to Boris's number, and then you deal the real bottom card - that is, the card originally chosen by Julia.

When you deal cards from the bottom of the deck, it should be well aligned. If you accidentally pushed the bottom cards forward, push them back. You don't need them to come forward when it's time to actually draw the bottom card: otherwise you'll have to go too far for it, which will make your manipulation visible. When you put the last card on the table, push the real bottom card forward with your little finger so that you can deal it on the table quite naturally. Oddly enough, overconfidence in dealing the second card from the bottom can be the cause of the error, so that when you need to deal the really bottom card, you will forget and deal the second card from the bottom again.

5. Now say to the audience: "I hope this is the same card that Yulia first chose at random from the full deck. If you remember, this card was put in this half of the deck, and Boris called an arbitrary number, that is, 15. Here is the fifteenth the card I turned in. It would be an incredible coincidence if Boris found Julia's card, but that's what I'm hoping for. So, which card did you choose, Julia?"

6. Julia names a card and you ask her to turn over the one that was just dealt on the table. This is her card.

Author: Arnold Peter

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