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With deft, habitual movements, the performer shuffles the cards. Then, folded in a pile, he holds them from below with his left hand and, slowly, with his right hand, opens them with a fan. Spectators see that the fan consists of cards, different in suit and value.

With the same unhurried movement of the right hand, the performer, having closed this card fan, opens it again. But now the fan consists of only aces. One more movement - and the fan is closed. In the hands of the performer is the same deck of cards. And he opens it like a fan again. Spectators again see that he was full of the entire composition of the deck. And again the same unhurried movement of the performer's hand, closing the fan. This time it consists of only kings.

Focus secret:

For this trick, 25-30 different cards are enough. But to make them, you need several decks. Anyone who can draw well can make secret cards from thick white paper.

The deck we need consists of double-sided cards. They do not have "shirts" - they have "pictures" on both sides. You should purchase cards from thin paper, take the required number of identical cards from two decks and glue them in pairs with "shirts" to each other. Then, from the available decks, select all the aces and all the kings and cut them in half diagonally in length, slightly retreating from the corner. There should be as many of these halves as there are secret cards. First, stick the halves of aces on the right half of each card. Then halves of kings are glued on the reverse sides in the same way. Now all cards in the secret deck will be double-faced, as shown in fig. 87.

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Fig. 87

When the cards are ready, they are stacked in a deck so that the "pictures" are in the same position: on the one hand, all halves of aces occupy the right side of each card, on the other, the halves of kings will occupy the right side of each card. And the first and last cards in the secret deck will be ordinary. They serve to mask secret cards. This secret deck, as usual, is placed in advance on the illusion table.

When demonstrating a trick, taking this deck from the table, you can shuffle the cards so that the audience sees the shuffle. But at the same time, it is necessary that the first and last cards remain in their places. Then, holding the deck by the bottom with his left, hand, right, the performer carefully, slowly, unfolds the fan, moving the cards one after the other from left to right and opening each to half. So in the magician's hand a fan is formed from the entire composition of cards, which includes halves of different suits and "pictures". Closing the card fan with the right hand, the performer simultaneously rotates the folded deck by 180°, holding it with the index and thumb of the left hand. Then he reveals it again with a fan, moving one card from left to right and revealing each to half.

Now the fan will consist of halves of aces. Having shown it to the audience, you need to put the cards in a deck and turn it at the same time with the reverse side. Thus, the performer again opens this deck of cards with a fan from the back, again showing different cards. Then he closes the fan again and again turns the deck 180 °. Now the cards in the performer's hand have taken the right position to demonstrate the last fan, which he opens in the same way as all three previous ones. This fan will already consist of some halves of kings.

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