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Focus Description:

The performer allows the audience to examine the deck of cards, then returns to the stage where there is a table. He takes a small frame from him and, showing that it is empty on both sides, puts it on the table. As if remembering something, he takes the frame again and, covering it with a scarf, puts it on the table. He approaches one of the spectators, holding a deck of cards, and offers to take out one of them and show it to the spectators. Then he asks to tear the removed card in half, and he tears both halves into small pieces, while a small piece of the card falls out of his hands. The illusionist picks up this piece and gives it to the viewer to hold, puts the remaining pieces of the card in the envelope given to him and seals it. He goes to the stage, where he places this envelope in front of everyone.

Taking the “magic” wand in his hands, he makes several “magic” movements near the envelope, then hands it to the viewer and asks him to open it. He opens it and finds a card in it with no points on it. We draw your attention to the fact that the card is missing one corner. He waves the hand in which he holds the card - it disappears. Approaching the frame, the magician removes the scarf from it, and all spectators see that there is the same card there that the spectator took out of the deck, but it is missing a corner (Fig. 75).

Focus Map Traveler
Fig. 75

The artist takes out the card, approaches the viewer with it, who still has a corner in his hands, and applies it: the corner exactly matches the card.

Props:

A simple deck of playing cards.

A forced deck of cards consisting of one card repeated 32 times.

One clean card without points.

Two envelopes.

Frame (see "Frame for a portrait").

Focus secret:

The secret of the trick is in a forced deck consisting of 32 identical cards (for example, 32 queens of spades). The spectator is allowed to take out one “any” card, but it will always be the queen of spades. Remember that you must change cards every time you perform a trick.

The illusionist goes into the auditorium and lets you examine a real deck. When, returning to the stage, he shows the frame, he quietly exchanges the real deck for a forced one. Approaching the viewer, he unfolds it like a fan (only when he reaches out his hand to the deck). You cannot allow a spectator to take out two cards. Of course, both decks must be the same speck.

Before the performance, the magician tears off a corner from one queen of spades and saves it until the right moment. The card with the corner torn off is placed in a frame and covered with sand. The frame appears empty to viewers. It is placed on the table, covered and turned over. The sand, poured into a special compartment, reveals the map, but the audience does not see this: after all, the frame is covered on top.

As soon as the spectator takes out a card (the queen of spades), the performer asks to tear it in half, then he himself tears the halves into small pieces; at the same time, he seems to “accidentally” drop from his hand the corner that was torn from the queen of spades before loading the card into the frame, and asks the spectator to keep it. The torn pieces of cards are placed in an envelope, which, on the way to the stage, is quietly exchanged for another, with a blank card, without a corner. The envelope is placed in full view of everyone on stage, then he gives it to the spectator and takes out a blank card without a corner. The magician takes the card, palms it, hides it and shows the audience both hands empty. Then, going to the frame, he opens it, and the audience sees that there is a queen of spades, but without a corner. The performer takes the card out of the frame and, approaching the spectator, asks him to attach a corner to the card. They match exactly.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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