To P r e p a r e. You need an ordinary deck of playing cards

You need an ordinary deck of playing cards. Remove the following cards: the eight of spades, the eight of clubs, the seven of hearts, and the seven of diamonds.

	Place the seven of diamonds on
	the bottom of the deck. Arrange
	the other three cards on top of the
deck in this order, from top down:
	eight of spades, seven of hearts,
	eight of clubs. The eight of spades
	should be on top of the deck.
	To P e r f o r m
	The first thing you must do is
	to “force” someone to take the top
	two cards of the deck: the eight of
spades and seven of hearts. Be cool

and it’ll be easy to do. Hand the
deck to a person and say, “Please
cut off a small group of cards from
the top of the deck and flip them
faceup back onto the deck.” (Photo
1 shows what happens.) Once the
spectator has followed your in-
structions, continue, “Now please
cut deeper, so you are taking off a
larger group of cards, and flip all
of them over, back onto the deck.”
(Photo 2 shows the result and how
the deck is arranged at this point:
there is a small group of faceup
cards on top, followed by the rest
of the deck, facedown. The cards

that were originally on top of the

deck are now on top of the facedown portion. Note: The deck is not actually spread at this point—the photo is posed this way only to show you the condition of the cards.)

Take the deck back and spread the cards between your hands until you come to the first facedown card (photo 3). Remove all the faceup cards from the top. Square them into a neat pile, turn them facedown, and place them on the table. Say, “Let’s use the first two facedown cards.” Your right hand removes the first two facedown cards from thedeck in your left hand and shows them to the person (photo 4) as you say, “A red seven and a black eight.” Do not mention the suits!

Place the red seven (hearts) and the black eight (spades) on top of the facedown packet of cards on the table. Ask the person to cut the packet, burying his two cards in its center.

Your right hand lifts about half of the cards in your left hand. Ask the person to pick up the packet from the table and place it on top of the cards, which remain in your left hand. Now, you drop the cards held by your right hand on top. To the spectator, it seems as if the two cards he randomly chose have been completely lost in the center of the deck.

Take the squared deck with your right hand, holding it with your thumb on top and fingers beneath (photo 5). You’ll have to practice what happens next a few times so you know exactly how loosely to hold the cards. Swing your right hand to the left, pressing your right thumb and fingers lightly together. The deck should fly into your left hand, slipping out from between the top and bottom cards (photo 6 shows this just starting), which re-main in your right hand.

Your left hand catches the deck (photo 7). Turn your right hand over to reveal what seem to be the same two cards you placed in the deck a moment ago—a red seven

and a black eight (photo 8). Wait a few moments for the trick to regis-ter, then insert the two cards in different places in the deck and shuffle the cards. Keeping them in sight for too long at the end of the trick may provide someone in the audience with the opportunity to remember that the suits are different.

6.

Together Torn

Five cards are randomly chosen from a deck of playing cards and torn in half by Criss. No matter how often the spectator wishes the performer to mix the halves, the matching halves of each card always find each other.

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