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Focus Description:

The cards are given to a spectator who is asked to shuffle them and place them face up on the table in a capital Q shape (see below). The number of cards that form the tail of the letter can be any, at his choice.

The magician writes a prediction on a piece of paper. The spectator is asked to count aloud the cards forming the letter Q, starting at the tip of the ponytail and moving clockwise on the left side, touching each card as the finger moves.

The viewer is told that he can stop whenever he wishes. He is then asked to count the cards back, counter-clockwise, starting from the card on which he stopped, but skipping the tail of the letter Q. He must stop when he reaches the same number that he reached last time.

Then the magician shows a piece of paper where he has written a card on which the viewer has stopped.

Focus secret:

This is a simple trick that works on its own; its secret is obvious if you think about it. The number of cards in the tail of the letter Q is equal to the number of cards that the spectator (let's call him Valery) reaches by moving along the right side of the letter when he counts the cards back. Thus, all you have to do when the cards are laid out is to discreetly count the number of cards in the tail of the letter, count the same number up from the right side of the letter, and predict the card you will reach as the one on which Valery stops. It doesn't matter how many cards Valery counts before he stops: he will end up on that card when he counts back. Be sure, even if the map on which he stops, he, going back, will call it as the first one.

This trick cannot be repeated, and you should not give your viewers time to think about it, but go straight to the next trick.

Improved Options

This trick will be more effective if the cards are laid face down instead of face up. This can be done if you prepare the deck in advance and do not shuffle the cards.

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The cards laid out for the Q-trick in the shape of the letter Q. There are nine cards in the tail, so the predicted card is the king of spades

The following are two ways: one is very easy, the other is just easy.

A very easy way is to deal the cards, laying them out in the shape of the letter Q, yourself. Make a tail, say, of nine cards and prepare the deck in such a way that you know the ninth card from the bottom of the deck. Say to Valery, "I want you to count out loud, starting at the tip of the ponytail here and up the left side here, touching each card in turn, and stop wherever you like. Place your finger on the card you stop at. Before Wherever you start, I'm going to make a prediction by writing on a piece of paper a map where you will eventually end up."

What happens if, after you have carefully prepared the deck, Valery unknowingly or intentionally shuffles the deck? I hope that if you have read this book carefully, you will not be confused by this. You, of course, as an experienced magician, will immediately go to the first version of this trick and ask him to deal the cards face up.

A slightly more complicated way is to let Valery deal the cards, as in the first option, and let him put any number of cards (say, up to ten) in the tail of Q (but not let them shuffle). This means that you must prepare and memorize the ten bottom cards of the deck. Put them in some simple order that you can remember, for example: two, four, six, eight, ten, ace, three, five, seven, nine, in turn - clubs, hearts, spades, diamonds. When Valery lays out the tail of the letter Q, you will have a lot of time to calculate the card on which he will stop. If the deck is made according to the option proposed above, it will stop at the three of spades.

Author: Arnold Peter

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