One against eight. Effective trick and its solution

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Focus Description:

Nine cards are laid out in a certain way. The magician asks a volunteer from the audience to help him and then asks the assistant to leave the room. Another volunteer is asked to choose one of nine cards by pointing to it. The person who left the room is called back - and he shows the selected card.

Props:

Any nine cards (including nine), accomplice, pencil.

Focus secret:

I learned this trick when I was a kid, about 60 years ago. It's simplicity itself and one wonders how many times you can show it without the public noticing. Of course, if you have already performed several tricks and many of your spectators have already helped choose a card, etc., they will not have any reason to suspect that the assistant in this trick is actually an accomplice. But even if they suspect, which eventually will happen, they still have to puzzle over exactly how you do it.

1. Carelessly rotate the cards in your hands before you begin. All you need to do is make sure that a nine of any suit is among the top nine cards.

2. Begin by saying, "I need any nine cards for this trick, so I'll just take the top nine cards from the deck."

3. Count and place nine cards face down on the table. Your accomplice, let's call her Eugenia, is already at the ready and knows that now it's her turn to act, since this is the only one of your tricks that begins with you drawing nine cards from the deck. So she's waiting for you to say, "Well, who wants to help me with this trick?" She replies "I" very quickly before anyone else responds to your request. You say, "Thank you, Eugenia. I'm afraid you'll have to leave the room for this trick while we pick a card, but that's only for a minute or two."

4. As soon as Eugenia leaves the room, you take nine cards and deal them face up, as shown in the picture above. Note that the cards are laid out as if they were suit icons on a nine. When you're done, ask someone in the audience to point to any of the nine cards.

Focus One vs Eight
This is how nine cards should be laid out. Notice how the suit icons on the nine of spades neatly represent the whole spread.

Eugene is called back. You tell her that she must identify the card the audience has chosen. Say that you will point to the cards in turn, and when you point to the right card, it should stop you.

5. Start pointing randomly at the cards with your pencil, saying, "Is that her?" or "This one?" Once you point to the correct card, Eugenia will say, "Yes, that's it."

6. It is important that you point to the nine before pointing to the chosen card. When you point to the nine, your pencil will touch the suit icon on the nine corresponding to the chosen card. Eugenia will immediately understand which card she should recognize. Suppose that in the illustration the chosen card is the five of hearts. You must first point to the jack of diamonds, then to the three of clubs, then to the nine of spades (making sure that the tip of the pencil touches the second suit icon in the left row from the bottom). Eugenia now knows that the chosen card is the five of hearts, and as soon as you point it out, she will say so.

7. If the chosen card accidentally turns out to be the nine itself, it's okay. When you point to it, just point to the icon corresponding to the nine - in our illustration it is second from the bottom in the right row.

What happens if you lay out nine cards from the top of the deck and it turns out that there are two (or even three) nines in your layout? Great! Focus will be even more effective. All Eugenia needs to know in the case of two nines is that the desired nine is the first one you point to. When you repeat the trick, you can use another nine as the main card. In this case, it will be even more difficult to guess what exactly you are doing.

8. You can repeat this trick while the audience slowly figure out how you do it. Some will immediately understand that Evgenia is your accomplice. I like to lead them astray by making a five in a row. If someone says, "I know how to do it," send Eugenia out of the room and ask that person to try to do it. If he succeeds, you will know if it was just a fluke or not. If he did reveal the secret of the trick, congratulate him, ask him to keep it a secret and move on to the next trick. If the spectator fails, ask someone to shuffle the nine cards and lay them out again. Repeat the trick a third time and say enough is enough for today.

Author: Arnold Peter

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