Rapier cards. Effective trick and its solution

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Focus Description:

A magician with a deck of cards in his hands approaches the audience and suggests: let several people take one card each, remember them well and show them to their neighbors. When this is done, the magician tells the audience to put the cards back in the middle of the deck. Then he goes to the stage and, holding the cards in his hand, invites one of the spectators to his place. He gives him a deck, and he takes a rapier from the table. Standing at a distance of 2-3 m from the viewer, he invites him to throw the cards up. He throws, the cards scatter. The illusionist, at this time, having made a lunge with a rapier, catches four cards on it (Fig. 213). Then he goes to the audience and shows the cards strung on a rapier. Spectators who participated in the number confirm that these are the same cards that they noticed and put into the deck.

Focus Cards on the rapier
Fig. 213

The assistant quickly collects the rest of the cards from the floor and passes them to the spectators for inspection. It is precisely the four that were strung on a rapier that are missing.

Props:

A rapier with a secret device.

Force deck of cards.

Ordinary deck of cards.

Focus secret:

First, with a forced deck of cards, you need to have the audience draw exactly the four cards that you require. You can get away with a simple deck, but it is quite difficult and requires considerable dexterity in order to be able to put the right card in time. Modern magicians prefer another, very easy way, namely, a forced deck. There are thirty-two cards in it, but they all represent only a combination of four different cards, which are repeated eight times.

Suppose that in our case, one takes out the six of hearts, the second - the nine of diamonds, the third - the jack of clubs and the fourth - the lady of the diamonds. In the deck, eight sixes of hearts should be placed on top, below them - eight nines of tambourines, even lower - seven jacks of clubs, and, finally, at the very bottom of the deck - eight queens of tambourines. Approaching the first spectator, the conjurer unconstrainedly opens the top eight cards in a fan-like fashion and, without looking at the deck, offers to take out one of them. The spectator will inevitably take out one of the eight heart sixes. Approaching the second one, the illusionist rolls up the top cards and opens eight nines of diamonds like a fan, one of which is drawn.

They do the same with the third card, allowing you to take it out of the third set - eight jacks of clubs. After that, the fourth card is given, for which the bottom eight cards are opened in a fan. Then the magician, having folded the deck, goes to the stage, imperceptibly replaces it with an ordinary one, from which four cards have been taken out in advance, which should “appear”. This deck is without four cards and is then given to the spectator, who throws it up.

The secret of the rapier is very simple. On fig. 214, And it is shown with cards loaded in the handle, and in fig. 214, B shows the location of these maps.

Focus Cards on the rapier
Fig. 214

The rapier is made of copper or brass 5 or 10 mm thick, inside it is hollow. Its length is about 70 cm, and its width at the bottom is about 2 cm. The rapier is tetrahedral, in the section it looks like a rhombus (Fig. 214, B), tapering towards the end (its upper edges are 4 mm). The upper sharp end is attached to the rapier. The lower one must be exactly equal to the upper one and have sides of 4 mm each (see Fig. 214, A and B).

Ephesus is made of wood and copper. A through hole is drilled in the tree, a metal hemisphere is screwed into the lower end of the handle, which is visible in the figures. An elastic, very elastic rubber is tied to this circle (you can use a bicycle nipple tube). For her in the middle of the hemisphere there is a soldered strong hook. Knit the second end of the rubber to the bottom of the sharp upper tip of the rapier - for this, a fastening is made there. On the side of the wooden handle, solder a copper plate with bent edges, where, like in a case, four cards are inserted, put on rubber (see Fig. 214, A).

To prevent the cards from popping out ahead of time, a small locking device is arranged on the hilt to hold them. Taking a rapier in his hands, the magician releases the cards from under the stopper and holds them until the right moment with the palm of his right hand, pressing them against a plate with curved edges. As soon as the spectator throws the deck up, the illusionist, having made a lunge and pretending to catch the cards in the air, actually releases the cards in the rapier. The rubber will immediately pull them up to its upper edge. The upper end will fall into place - and the audience will see that the rapier has pierced the four cards you need.

Cards in which the necessary cuts are made will be located along the entire length of the blade. To do this, only a puncture is made in the six of hearts, into which the rubber must pass. In the next card, a diamond-shaped cutout of such a size that it stops fifteen centimeters from the first. In the following cards, the cutouts should be one larger than the other so that they are located on the rapier, as shown in fig. 214.

The length of the rubber should be such that it draws the tip close to the end of the rapier. The rapier should be well nickel plated. It is clear that, taking the rapier from the table, the magician must carefully close the four cards with the tip of the rapier with his palm from the audience. The tension of the rubber can be adjusted by removing the lower hemisphere of the handle. The inside edges of the top of the rapier should be carefully rounded and buffed to avoid cutting the elastic.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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