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Focus Description:

The magician turns his back, and the spectator at this time shuffles the deck. Then he thinks of a number from one to ten, quietly counts the cards up to that number, looks at the corresponding card and memorizes it. He hands the deck to another spectator who thinks of a number between 11 and 20 and does the same. Then the deck is handed to the magician behind his back.

The magician turns and announces that he is going to reveal the cards of the audience, holding the deck behind his back. He pulls out a card, which turns out to be incorrect. Holding the deck in front of him, he asks the first spectator what number he guessed, counts and takes out another card. Again, this is not the same card. In desperation, he turns to the second spectator and asks for his card number.

The magician counts and draws a card for that spectator. And the third time he is wrong. He shuffles the deck and, offering it to the second spectator, asks to remove the cards. He takes off half the cards and puts them on the table.

The magician places his cards across the top of the pile. When the magician turns over the top pile and the top card of the bottom pile, the cards chosen by the spectators are revealed.

Focus secret:

Everyone likes it when a magician seems to make mistake after mistake in order to demonstrate an amazing trick at the end, thereby showing that everything was initially under control. The great magician Tommy Cooper created a whole art out of the demonstration of seeming failures.

1. Hand the cards to a spectator, let's say Max, and ask him to shuffle them properly. When he does this, ask him to think of a number from one to ten, but do not say it to you. Say, "Now I'm going to turn away. While I can't see, count the cards down to your number, look at the corresponding card, and memorize it. Don't pull it out, leave it in the deck where it lies. Tell me when you're done."

2. When Max does everything you told him, turn around and ask him to give the deck to another spectator - let's call her Olga. Say: "Now, Olga, you must think of a number from 11 to 20, and when I turn away, you must do the same as Max, that is, count to the corresponding card, look at it and remember. Please do not disturb the order I'm going to do something wonderful in its own way - if you mess up the order of the cards, it'll take a real wizard to do it."

3. When Olga is done with her back to the audience, ask her to place the cards face down in your hands. When the cards are in your hands, turn to the audience with your hands behind your back.

4. Say: "I'm going to find both of your cards with my hands behind my back. The first one should be easy to find, I think. Here's the card you chose, Max, I guess? Am I right?"

5. You pull your hands out from behind your back, holding the deck facing down in your left hand, and the "chosen" card in your right - you put it on the table. Max says, "No, that's not my card." You look confused.

6. In fact, you know that this is not Max's card. While your hands are behind your back, while talking to the audience, you take one card from the bottom of the deck and place it face down on the top of the deck. Then you take the second card from the bottom of the deck - and that is what you present to Max as the chosen card.

7. When Max says it's not his card and you look appropriately embarrassed, put the wrong card on the bottom of the deck and ask Max what number he guessed. Let's say Max says "Six".

8. Count and place five cards face down on the table and turn the sixth card face up. Say, "Then this is your card, Max?" He will say: "No, not the same again." Get completely puzzled and ask Max if he is sure that you are mistaken. He will say that he is absolutely sure and that the trick did not work out for you.

In fact, all these maneuvers end up with Max's card at the top of the stack in your left hand.

9. Say, "Well, maybe I can find Olga's card. Let's see, we have six cards here." Place these six cards on the bottom of the deck. "What number are you thinking, Olga?" Suppose Olga says: "Seventeen."

10. Begin dealing cards from the top of the deck, face down on the table, counting from seven. Turning over the seventeenth card, tell Olga: "Is this your card?" Olga will say: "No. Looks like today is not your day."

11. Put the face up card on top of the pile and hide the pile at the bottom of the deck, expressing complete dejection by your appearance. Say, "Perhaps I would have had better luck if I had completely shuffled the entire deck first." As you say this, shuffle the deck.

If you've done all this with cards in hand, you know that before the shuffle, Max's card was the bottom card of the deck and Olga's was the top card. Your shuffle should keep this position, so make a fake shuffle 6.

Your spectators will overlook the fact that although you asked your two assistants to count out an arbitrary number of cards while you stood with your back to them, you actually asked them what those numbers were before you drew the corresponding cards. So finding the two chosen cards in the final will not require much dexterity. Your little intervention in the order of the deck at the beginning, when your hands were behind your back, allowed you to draw the wrong cards first, and then draw the right ones. Everything else is hocus pocus, and its success depends on how well you can convince the audience that you are wrong time after time. No need for a bad game, just let's understand that we are confused and upset. Your triumph will be at the end. The focus itself is simple; what matters is the presentation.

12. Having offered the deck to Olga, ask her to remove it approximately in the middle and put the top half of the deck face down on the table. Place your half across the top of this stack.

13. Tell Max: "Just out of curiosity, Max, which card did you choose?" Let's say Max says: "Three of tambourines." Turn over the top stack. The top card is a three of diamonds. Say: "You won't believe it, Olga pulled the deck right on your card. It seems impossible. And what card did you choose, Olga?" Suppose she says: "Ace of clubs."

14. Take the top card, face down, and say, "I think it's too presumptuous to expect it to be the ace of clubs." Turn over the card - this is the ace of clubs.

Author: Arnold Peter

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