The cards follow orders. Effective trick and its solution

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The magician takes a deck of cards from his pocket. After shuffling it, he invites one of the spectators to take one card from the deck and name it. The spectator calls: "This is the ace of spades." Then the artist asks to put this card in the middle of the deck and arranges the cards in a neatly folded pile on the left palm.

Having made several passes over the deck in the air with his right hand, the performer orders the ace of spades to come out of the deck. Obeying the order, the deck of cards in the palm of your hand begins to move. Part of the deck is separated from the main pile, slides forward, backward and pushes one card out of the middle (Fig. 62, B). This is the ace of spades. Having fulfilled the order of the performer, the deck of cards in the palm of your hand takes its original position.

Focus Cards follow orders
Fig. 62

Focus secret:

For this trick, you need one deck of cards, a 50 cm piece of thin fishing line and a safety pin.

The deck must be divided in half. Set aside one half, and make a hole in the second with an ordinary sewing needle in the center of each card. Then tie one end of the fishing line to a pin, and pull the other through all the cards with holes. Thus, this stack of cards will be strung on a fishing line. A knot is tied at the end of the fishing line so that it does not slip out and the cards do not crumble (Fig. 62, B). For greater strength, this knot can be sealed with a piece of adhesive tape (Fig. 62, D). For all the secret devices associated with card tricks, I advise you to use only this film. It is quite sticky, holds well and is completely invisible due to its transparency.

Before demonstrating the trick, the end of the fishing line with a pin is pinned to the belt of the trousers on the left side under the jacket. Both halves of the cards are folded into a single deck so that the secret ones are at the bottom and the free ones, without fishing line, are at the top. Then the entire deck is placed in the left pocket of the trousers. The jacket covers a simple adaptation to the trick, and the performer can feel free and at ease on stage (Fig. 62, E).

Starting to demonstrate the trick, the performer takes this deck out of his pocket and puts it in his palm so that the fishing line is between the middle and ring fingers, and on the back of the hand goes along the sleeve (Fig. 62, E). Having descended from the stage into the auditorium, the performer opens the free part of the deck of cards in front of the audience with a fan in the palm of his hand and offers to take one of them. The spectator takes a card, calls it, and meanwhile the performer closes the fan of free cards in the palm of his hand and again opens the fan with a fan, but this time already secret cards strung on a fishing line, which at this moment should not be stretched. The performer asks to put the announced card into the open deck and closes the fan. Fishing line obediently lets in a free card between two secret ones. All cards are in the same deck again. Now the performer makes several passes with his right hand and stretches forward his left palm on which the deck lies. The fishing line is pulled from this, the upper part of the deck is separated, slides forward, then back, and the card inserted into the deck crawls out of it: when pulled, the fishing line pushes out a free card inserted between two secret ones (Fig. 62 G).

The second variant of the focus is quite simple. It is built on the same principle. Only the performer offers to get one card from the deck, not one, but two or three from the audience. They take out one, another, third cards in turn and put them into a deck opened like a fan. Then the performer does all the same manipulations as described above, and three cards are alternately pushed out of the deck.

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