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Focus Description:

In this trick, the magician writes a prediction on a piece of paper and puts it in an envelope. Then he puts a shuffled deck on the table and, turning his back to the audience, asks someone from the audience to take cards from one to twelve. Then the magician deals twelve cards from the top of the deck and makes them look like a dial, where the twelve cards represent the numbers on the dial.

Then the magician asks the assistant to say how many cards are written on the piece of paper lying in the envelope, and turn over the card representing this number on the dial. He then asks the assistant to open the envelope and take a look at the prediction. It matches the reversed card.

Props:

Prepared deck, pen and paper, envelope (plus marked card, scissors, and duct tape for a double effect alternative).

Focus secret:

For this trick, you will need a piece of paper, a pen, an envelope, and a prepared deck. Or, at the very least, you should know which card is thirteenth from the top in a face-down deck. You can try to look at the cards in the deck before the trick, but it will be more effective if you directly go to this from the previous trick - so that the audience does not have suspicions that you have prepared the deck (see transition from the previous trick, p. 58). Suppose the thirteenth card is the king of diamonds.

1. Tell the audience that the next trick involves a stunning prediction that you are going to write on a piece of paper and give it to a volunteer audience member for safekeeping.

2. Write on a piece of paper so the audience can't see, "I predict you'll pick the king of diamonds." Fold a piece of paper and put it in an envelope. Do not seal the envelope yet, but place it in front of you on the table. Tell the audience that you are going to quickly shuffle the deck and perform a fake shuffle 1, keeping the key thirteen cards on top of the deck.

3. Put the deck on the table and ask who wants to volunteer - let's say it will be Irina. Say that you are going to turn your back while she draws any number of cards, from one to twelve, from the top of the deck. Ask her to do this quietly, because you don't need to know how many cards she took, but she needs to memorize the number. When she does, tell her that you are going to turn her face again, so she has to be careful that you don't see how many cards she has in her hand.

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Location of maps for focus

4. Now ask her to take the envelope with the prediction, put the cards in it and seal it.

5. Now turn around and take the rest of the deck, saying, "We'll make a dial for this little operation, so I'll need twelve cards, each one representing a number on the dial." Count twelve cards from the deck and place them face down on the table, counting aloud from 1 to 12. Set the rest of the deck aside and draw twelve cards.

6. Starting at one o'clock, lay out twelve cards in the form of a clock face and say, laying down each card: "An hour, two hours, three hours ..." - and so on until twelve o'clock. The dial will look like the picture.

7. Now tell Irina: "If you remember, Irina, the cards were shuffled, you took as many as you wanted, and I didn't know how many. Now tell me, how many cards did you put in the envelope?"

8. Let's say Irina says "Five". Tell her, "Fine, would you turn over the card corresponding to the five o'clock on our "dial"?" Irina turns over - and the card turns out to be the king of diamonds.

9. Say: "Irina, you could take any number of cards, but by choosing five, you chose the king of diamonds. Now, will you open the envelope and read my prediction?"

10. Irina opens the envelope and A counts: "I predict that you will choose the king of diamonds."

Explanation

No matter how many cards Irina puts in the envelope, the king of diamonds, which was originally the thirteenth card in the deck, will be the card corresponding to that number on the clock. When Irina put the top five cards in the envelope, the king of diamonds became the eighth card in the deck. When the top twelve cards were dealt face down on the table, the king of diamonds became the fifth card from the top - and thus became the number five on the clock.

If Irina took six cards, the king of diamonds would become the seventh card in the deck and the sixth card dealt to the table, and would symbolize six hours, etc. The king will always correspond on the dial to the number of cards in the envelope.

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Cut off the front of the other envelope, write a prediction on it, and tape it into the envelope to make a fake compartment

Alternative double effect

Alternatively, you don't ask how many cards are in the envelope, but you are "led" to a number on a dial showing the number of cards in the envelope. While the audience is pondering this magical phenomenon, you open the divination that you put in the envelope beforehand, which reveals the card you arrived at. Decide for yourself what is best for you - this option or a simpler one.

1. If you want to impress the public with another revelation, you must prepare the deck in advance by marking the thirteenth card. You only need to make a tiny mark on the back of the card so you can identify it when you have all the backs in front of you. If there is a clean spot on the back of the card, just make a small pencil mark with a pencil of the same color as the back itself. No one but you will see it.

Transition from the previous focus

You can show this focus, for example, after trick with twenty one cards, at the end of which we have twenty-one cards scattered face up on the table. After you have taken the card chosen by the spectator and shown it to the public, take seven more cards, so that it is not clear that you are taking a certain number of them - this is not difficult - and transfer now eight cards to the left hand face down . Rake the thirteen remaining cards on the table face up into a random pile and pick them up with your right hand. Memorize the top card and move them face down to the pile in your left hand. Connect this pile with the rest of the deck - and now you know which card is thirteenth from the top.

In extreme cases, put a mark on the white border around the picture. Let's say you marked the two of clubs.

2. In this regard, the order of demonstrating the focus changes. You prepare your prediction in advance. Take exactly the same envelope as the one you are going to use (in our case it is better to use self-sealing envelopes with an adhesive strip on both flaps that do not need to be licked) and cut off the entire front. Write "You will choose the two of clubs" on one side. Then, with a strip of adhesive tape, attach the prediction to the inside of the envelope so that it is not visible. As a result, the envelope has a false compartment in which the prediction is placed. Keep scissors handy while showing this trick.

3. Ask someone from the audience, let it be Irina again, to take from one to twelve cards from the deck. When she does, open the envelope, keeping one flap open and the other down, so she can drop her cards into the envelope without letting you see how many there are and, most importantly, that she doesn't see that you have something. made with an envelope. Then push the bottom flap towards it and, holding the bottom of the envelope, ask it to be sealed.

4. When you hand over the cards and make a dial out of them, you will immediately notice the marked card and find out, depending on its location, how many cards were put in the envelope.

5. Now place another card face down in the center of the dial. Tell Irina: "Focus on the number of cards you put in the envelope, and I will put my fingers on this card and let your thoughts lead me to the number on the dial." Pretend to be in a semi-trance and move the card around absently until the last decisive move brings it to the marked card. Let's say it symbolizes eight hours. Throw the card you moved to the side and tell Irina: "The power of your thought has led me to eight o'clock, so I predict that there are eight cards in the envelope. Am I right?"

6. Irina will confirm that this is so. Ask her to take the cards out of the envelope and give them to you. The audience will think that this is the end of the trick. But you will say to Irina: "For the sake of interest, would you turn over the card corresponding to eight hours?" She will turn over.

Exclaim: "Oh, two of clubs!" Collect all the cards on the table, leaving only the two of clubs. Say, "This is an interesting card, two of clubs. I'll explain why." Take out the scissors.

7. Tell Irina: "Will you cut off a thin strip from the bottom of the envelope? Now if you cut the sides of the envelope, you will find an inner compartment in which the prediction lies. Would you read it aloud?"

8. Irina reads: "You will choose the deuce of clubs." Say, "I told you it wasn't just a map."

The double effect focus is done cleanly.

Author: Arnold Peter

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