Classic Card Tricks by Edward Victor

Author:Edward Victor
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486154244
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

METHOD.

The card is changed during the brief moment that the fanned cards are turned face downwards immediately before the removal of the “wrong” card from the pack by the chooser.

In the performance of this effect it is necessary to know the value of the card ABOVE the one selected after it has been returned to the pack.

The reader may probably have his favourite method of accomplishing this. (I usually divide the pack, have the card replaced at the cut and then “spring” the top half on to the lower portion. It is an easy matter to quickly obtain a glimpse of the lower index of the bottom card of the top half as it is bent inwards for the “spring.”)

Whichever method is used, you now know the name of the card above the one selected. We will assume it to be the Ace of Clubs.

Now hold the pack in the left hand in the same position as for dealing.

Stand facing the audience and slide the cards (held upright and with their faces outwards) with the left thumb one at a time into the right hand, the right fingers assisting in this movement.

The pack must be kept squared up, the left thumb sliding only one card at a time into the right hand.

As the pack is being thus fanned from left to right, it should be held fairly near the body, and about six inches below the chin, so that it is possible for the performer to see the faces of the cards as they are passed from one hand to the other.

When he comes to the ace of clubs this card is pushed to the right with the left thumb as far as possible, care being taken, however, not to expose any part of the face of the card next to it, which is the one chosen.

The fanned portion in the right hand is now closed by drawing the cards downwards with the right fingers, the ace of clubs being held at its two bottom corners by the tips of the left thumb and the right second and third fingers in the position illustrated in Fig. 49. (Performer’s view.)

Enquiring if this is the card taken, the chooser replies “No.”

The pack is now turned downwards in the position you would hold it if you were asking someone to “take a card.”

During this movement the ace of clubs, marked “B” in Fig. 49, is changed to the card selected.

Here is the move in detail:

Whilst holding the cards as shown in Fig. 49 and displaying the “wrong” card “B” to the audience, the tip of the left thumb is moved from the bottom corner of “B” to the position “X” on “A,” the chosen card. (See Fig. 49.)

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