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effective focus with long card.

Focus secret:

You "force" the long card and put it back into the deck, which can be well shuffled. Then you turn to the audience: “I hope you are now sure that, even if I noticed the card you chose earlier, now I don’t know it for sure. To be more sure, you can shuffle the deck again,” and give the deck to the spectator for shuffles. Again you turn to the audience: “You can see that I don’t have a duplicate of this card hidden in my hand,” and show your hands. “Now I will take any card from the deck and try to turn it into a card chosen by the spectator.” The spectators may want to choose a card, and you show that card to the person who chose the first card. Of course, this turns out to be a completely different card. While discussing a card, you place the little finger of your left hand on a long card and, making a volt, move it to the top of the deck. Then you hide this card in your hand.

You then ask the spectator holding the second card to place it on top of the deck, pick up the deck with your right hand, and then cover it with the card hidden in your hand. All you have to say is that this trick does not involve sleight of hand. Place the deck of cards on the table and ask the spectator who chose the first card to name it, and then reveal the first card in the deck. It is advisable to shuffle the deck after opening the card so that the audience does not see that the second card is in the deck - after all, it is this card that you “turned” into the intended card.

If you use a conical deck in this trick, then you need to force it at the beginning of the trick.

You can very effectively open the intended card in another way. When a card is selected, place it back under the long card. The deck can also be shuffled in this case, because the probability of these cards being separated is quite small. If after shuffling the long card is not on top, then all you have to do is remove the deck so as to make it first.

You take the cards horizontally and hold them above the table. The thumb is on one side of the deck and the rest are on the other. Then you turn to the audience: “I’m going to lay out the cards in small piles on the table and you yourself must stop me. In any case, the top card in the pile will be the card you have in mind.” You begin to lay out several cards on the table. When the audience stops you, throw all the cards under the long card onto the table. The chosen card will be the top one in the last pile, because it was immediately below the long card.

You ask the spectator to name the noticed card and reveal the first card from the last group. Everyone can see that this is the same card.

With good training you can make this trick even better. You do everything as described above, but when you say “stop,” you throw, as before, all the cards lying under the long card. After that, you place the rest of the deck on the table and take with your left hand the stack of cards that you threw last. Cover these cards with your right hand and, moving it away, hide the top card in your palm. Immediately grab the next card from one corner, holding it facing the spectators until the card is called. After that you say: “Here is your card” and put it back on the deck. By simultaneously covering it with your right hand, you cover it with the hidden card.

Spectators will say that this is not the card that was called to you at all, because they saw it when you held the card face down. You look embarrassed and ask to be allowed to try again. You say: “Of course, I didn’t touch her with a magic wand!” You then touch the top card with your wand and reveal it.

Author: Louis Hoffmann

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