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Forced card selection by discarding. Tips for a magician

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After carefully shuffling the deck of cards, the magician takes it face down in his left hand. With the thumb of his left hand, he flips through the cards, bending down the outer corners of the cards. The magician suggests to the viewer: "Say "stop" when I sort through the cards!" When he is given a sign, the magician grabs the top of the deck with his right hand. Then, tearing off this upper part of the deck, he stretches the lower part of the deck forward with his left hand so that the spectator can look at the top card of the bottom part of the deck ... in the place where the thumb was when he said: "Stop!" Everyone is sure that the choice of the card is completely random, however, the card was imposed due to the discard.

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The forced choice card is the top card of the deck, so the top card of the deck must be known in advance. To do this, recognize the bottom card with the Glimmer Downward Shuffle or Glimmer Indian Shuffle trick, then shuffle the bottom card to the top using any of the Move the bottom card to the top position trick. If you have the card on top, you are ready for the trick.In addition, in many tricks it is necessary that a certain card be forcibly selected.In this case, move the card you know to the "top" position before the viewer makes a "free" choice.

1. Take the deck in your left hand, holding it with a technical grip for dealing. The thumb of the left hand lies on one side of the deck, the index finger is on the upper end, and the remaining three rest on the top of the deck on the right, the other side.

2. With the thumb of your left hand, bend the outer left corner of the deck down. Start slowly releasing the cards with the tip of your thumb, allowing them to "jump" up. This is called flipping the cards or the deck. When performing this operation, invite the spectator to stop you at any time of the "swipe" so that he can pick up the card at the place where he stopped.

3. Start slowly flipping through the cards and when the spectator gives a sign, stop. Without hesitation, stretch your right hand to the deck and take its upper part above the card on which you stopped. It is necessary to take hold of the upper part of the deck, holding it between the thumb of the right hand and the rest of the fingers. Notice that the fingers of your left hand are still on top of the top card of the deck.

4. Now start pulling the top stack up. The fingers of the left hand at this time hold the top card.

5. With the fingers of your left hand, hold the top card (imposed card) in place while your right hand draws the top stack of cards from under it.

6. The right hand continues to draw the top pile until that part of the deck passes the edge of the "discarded" X forced choice card, which will lie on top of the left hand pile of cards.

7. Extend your left hand towards the viewer. Invite him to remove and look at the top card, which has become a forced choice card. You have successfully forced a card on a spectator using discard force. Now you can announce which card has been chosen in the style you want.

Author: Mark Wilson

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