Decreasing card fan. Effective trick and its solution

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Decreasing card fan. Focus Secret

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Focus Description:

The magician holds a deck of cards in his left hand. The lower corner of the side facing the performer is pinched with the thumb of the left hand. The back of the deck is held with the remaining four fingers. With his right hand, the performer takes apart the top of the deck and opens it into a large round fan. He puts it back in the deck and again opens it like a fan, but the fan has become smaller in diameter. The performer puts the fan back into the deck, then opens it again. He became even smaller. The performer closes this fan again and opens it again. And the audience sees a very small fan, although the performer did not change cards at that time and his hands were visible all the time.

Focus secret:

This trick is performed with the same deck of cards that the performer used during warm-up. The first fan opens as described at the beginning and shown in Fig. 60, A.

Focus Decreasing Card Fan
Fig. 60

The side of the open fan with the thumb on it faces the audience. The remaining four fingers hold the fan at its base on the reverse side. Having closed this first fan of the largest diameter, the performer moves his fingers on both sides of the deck. The thumb is moved to the center of the starting card in the deck, and the other four fingers on the back of the ending card in the deck are also moved to the center.

Thus, the performer holds the deck of cards in the middle between the thumb and the other four fingers of the left hand. The second fan opens to the audience with the side supported by four fingers. They cover almost half of the open fan at its base. And it gives the impression that the fan is shrinking (Fig. 60, B).

The performer closes the second fan and quickly takes the deck of cards deeper into the palm so that the fingers on both sides of the deck are already above the center of the starting and ending cards. Then the performer opens the third fan. The four fingers on the side of the fan facing the audience cover three quarters of the height of the cards and give the impression that the fan has become even smaller in diameter (Fig. 60, B).

And when the last, fourth fan, which seems very small to the audience, is revealed, the fingers hide more than three-quarters of the cards, leaving only their upper edges visible (Fig. 60, D).

Since all this is done quickly and very clearly, the audience does not have time to realize what exactly is happening. This little trick can go unnoticed only if the trick is performed flawlessly.

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