Forcing Double turn. Effective trick and its solution

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Sometimes, for the trick, you will need to force the viewer to select one or more cards (we will use the term "forcing a card" in what follows) so that she gets the impression that she has chosen them at random herself.

For this technique, you again need to know the top card of the deck.

Doing this manipulation for yourself, you will think: "Of course, it is obvious that the chosen card is the one that lay on top of the deck." Therefore, you must do everything in such a way that no one in the audience has time to think the same thing. You have the advantage that the public has not seen what you have done before, they are too absorbed in what you will do next to try to analyze your actions.

1. Shuffle the deck with false shuffle, making sure the card you want to force stays on top of the deck. Let's say it's a seven of hearts.

2. Hand the deck face down to one of the spectators, let it be Fedor, and say: "Take some cards from the top of the deck, Fedor, and put them back face up." Fedor will do it. "Thank you, Fedor. Now let someone else, let's say you, Julia, remove more cards from the top of the deck and put them back face up." Julia will do it. You now have a deck in your hand with the top of the cards face up and the bottom face down.

3. Fan out the cards until all the face up cards are in your right hand, now ask Julia to take the top face down card from your left hand. Say at the same time: "Here is the card that you and Fedor chose from the shuffled and twice removed deck." It seems to the public that the card is chosen at random - and only you know that this is the seven of hearts.

You can use this shuffle to force multiple cards, as in trick "Telephone number".

Author: Arnold Peter

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