This trick combines different tools to reach the climax. It
requires a few props but you should not have any problem finding
the. Try it!
EFFECT:
A miniature card finds a selected card from a regular deck!
REQUIREMENTS:
A miniature deck of cards with a duplicate (say the 4H); a
poker size deck of cards; a double-backed card (poker size, same
color as the deck); you also need a small piece of double sided
adhesive tape (or a small dab of magician’s wax).
SET-UP:
Place one 4H on top of the small deck and set the deck aside.
Hold the other small 4H face up below the face-down regular size
deck in the left-hand dealing position. The double-backed card is
then placed on top with the tape or wax.
PERFORMANCE:
Spread the regular deck between the hands and invite a
spectator to take a card. As he removes the card, separate the
deck in two, having the top portion in the right hand. As the
spectator shows the card, the right fingers slide the small card
(4H) below the right-hand cards.
Have the card replaced onto the left-hand cards and place the
right-hand cards on top assembling the deck. This action places
the face-up small 4H directly on top of the spectator’s card.
Leave the deck on the table.
Show the small deck and shuffle it leaving the 4H on top. Keep the
deck face down in the left-hand dealing position. Have a spectator
cut the deck more or less in half and turn this portion face up
onto the face-down remaining cards. Immediately turn the left hand
palm down (turning the deck as well) and spread the cards across
the table. Take the first face-down card (which will be the 4H,
apparently cut at random by the spectator) and place it face up
onto the regular size deck so it adheres to the tape (or wax).
Pick up the regular size deck and hold it in the left-hand dealing
position. Perform the J.K. Hartman blow away change. When you
lower the deck the small card has disappeared (really, having
flipped over the top card, it is now underneath the top,
double-backed card.) Dribble the cards from the right hand into
the left until you see the face up 4D in the middle of the deck.
Cut the deck at this point and have the card that is beneath the
small card taken. Ask for the name of the selected card and, sure
enough, it is the one found by the small card. At the same time
you have plenty of time to palm out the top card and get rid of
it.
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