Reversed card. Effective trick and its solution

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Reversed card. Focus secret

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Focus Description:

From the shuffled deck, the spectator takes a card and places it on top of the deck, which is shuffled again and removed. The magician removes the deck until he finds an inverted four of tambourines, which he throws on the table. The spectator objects that this is not his card.

The magician says that the four simply says that four cards must be counted, which he does by placing them in a row on the table. He turns over the fifth card, which turns out to be the one that the spectator guessed. He turns over four cards on the table, which turn out to be four aces.

Props:

A specially crafted deck.

Focus secret:

You need to start this trick with a deck composed as follows: there are four aces at the bottom, followed by a four of diamonds face up.

1. Make several fake shuffles, keeping the five cards at the bottom of the deck in their original position.

2. Now fan out the cards and ask someone in the audience, let's say Max, to take one. When unfolding the cards in a fan, keep the bottom cards unopened in the left hand to be sure that he does not choose any card from the bottom five and does not see the reversed four of diamonds.

3. When Max chooses a card, ask him to show it to the others and memorize it. Let's say it's the king of spades. Fold the cards and ask Max to put the card back on top of the deck so you can't see it. Remove the cards so that Max's card is under the aces, and all the cards appearing in the focus (there are six of them now) lie together, closer to the middle of the deck.

4. Now tell Max, "Now I'm going to do something really amazing: I'm going to discover your card by making it turn over and lay face up in the deck."

Focus Reversed Card
This is how the deck looks before demonstrating the trick

5. Slowly fan out the cards until you reach the four of diamonds, face up. Place on the table the part of the deck that lay above the four, then put the four of diamonds and say: "Here it is, the four of diamonds."

Look pleased until Max says: "No, it's not her. You made a mistake."

6. Smile and say, "No, you're right. I didn't say it was your card, did I? The four of diamonds just tells me to count four cards." Lay the next four cards in a row on the table face down and turn over the fifth face up. "I claim that this is your card." Max must agree.

7. Say, "I knew you made the King of Spades." And then add, as if thinking, "After all, it couldn't have been one of those cards, could it?" - and turn over the four cards lying face down - these are, as we know, four aces.

Author: Arnold Peter

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