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The card chosen by the spectator is drawn from his pocket. Focus Secret

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The magician shows the audience a deck and says: "Here I have an ordinary deck of 32 cards, consisting of four suits - spades, clubs, diamonds and hearts. Name any two suits."

Spectators call, say, spades and clubs.

"Excellent," the performer continues, "that means there are diamonds and hearts left. Name one of these two suits."

Let's say that the audience calls the hearts.

"So there are diamonds left, I have eight of them, starting with an ace and ending with a seven. Name four of any of these eight cards."

Suppose the audience calls a seven, an eight, a nine, and a ten.

"Well," says the magician, "there are four cards left unnamed, name two of them."

Spectators call, for example, a lady and a jack.

"So," concludes the performer. "Now name one of them."

They call, say, a lady.

“Very well, please remember: you chose the queen of diamonds. As you can see, I shuffle the cards very carefully and put the whole deck in my pocket. Tell me, what card do you want me to take out the queen of diamonds from my pocket? "

Suppose the audience says: fourth.

The magician takes one card from his pocket and, counting them, puts them on the table. Fourth, he takes out the queen of diamonds.

Props:

A simple deck of 32 cards.

Focus secret:

The performer decides in advance which card should appear from his pocket. He puts this card (in our case, the lady of the tambourine) in his pocket, and in his hands remains a deck of 31 cards, which can be shuffled as you like or given to any spectator. Then the so-called "forced choice" is applied. If, for example, the spectator named two suits at once and one of them was diamonds, then the magician should say: "Tell me one of these suits." If the viewer calls, say, another suit, then the illusionist says: "Well, there are diamonds left, name four cards out of eight diamonds." If the spectator names four cards, then the illusionist says that there are four cards left (including the queen of tambourines), and asks to name two. If two are named, which include the lady of the tambourine, then the magician asks to name one. Now, if the viewer calls the lady, then the performer, putting the deck in his pocket (where the lady of the tambourine lies in advance), takes it out according to the score indicated by the viewer. If the other is called from the two cards, then the magician says: "Excellent, but which card do we have left?" - And the viewer involuntarily calls the lady a tambourine.

When showing a trick, you need to ask questions very quickly and be very careful about what the audience chooses. Carefully read the description of the external effect, and you will understand that the performer deliberately conducts the conversation in such a way that the audience first chooses diamonds, and then from this suit - a lady. If the audience calls the wrong suit, then the magician "forces" them to unwittingly name the remaining suit or the card that is predetermined and lies in the performer's pocket.

You can not put a card in your pocket beforehand, but keep it constantly on top or bottom of the deck during shuffling. When shuffling the deck, the card should be held with a damp finger soaked imperceptibly on a sponge with water standing on the table under cover.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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