Tri-Emphasis
This
seemed so obvious to me that I imagine it
may have already been done somewhere at sometime.
Well, maybe so, but here it is anyway, my
way. It was published in Harry
Lorayne's APOCALYPSE (Vol. 17, no.
4 April 1994) in my ONE MAN ISSUE. The basic
handling is a Triumph type effect, but I do
hope that the initial phase looks a little
bit different. The basic modus operandi is
a variation of the Cut Deeper
Force. It is entirely impromptu.
Effect
A card
is freely selected and lost in the deck. The
cards are randomly shuffled into a face-down/face-up
kind of 'mess.' Magically, all the cards arrange
themselves to face one direction except the
selected one!
Performance
Have
a spectator shuffle the deck. Say that you
will turn away so you will not be able to
see the cards. While you are turned aside,
instruct him to keep the deck face up in dealing
position. He is to remember the card that
is now at the face of the deck. If the spectator
doesn't like that card he can change it until
he is satisfied by cutting the deck so that
he will have another card at the face of the
deck. Tell him to be sure to remember the
card.
Next
tell the spectator to cut a small packet (10
to 15 cards) from the face and to turn it
face down onto the remaining cards in his
hand. Ask the spectator to repeat the cut,
but to cut DEEPER this time. The spectator
cuts deeper, turns over that portion and places
it back onto the deck proper. Then ask him
to cut one more time, cutting even deeper.
Turn
back to face the front and take the deck from
the spectator. To the audience, the deck is
now in a face down and face up condition.
The situation is really this: An upper face
down portion is on a lower face up portion.
The bottom card of the face down portion is
the thought-of card.
With
the right hand, cut off all the upper face
down cards EXCEPT the lowermost one. You can
cut at the natural face-to-face break and
release one card. The face down card covers
the fact that the rest of the cards are face
up. The right hand cards are all face down.
Flip the right hand cards face up and Riffle
Shuffle it into the left hand portion.
Do the shuffle either in the hands or on the
table taking care not to expose the fact that
the lower portion is face up. Leave the face
down card on top and square the cards after
the shuffle.
Cut
the deck in order to center the face down
selected card. Do a ribbon spread on the table
to show that all the cards are facing one
way (face up), except the selected one which
is face down. Ask the spectator for the name
of the card he is thinking of, then slowly
turn over the one face down card to show that..."that's
it"!
Notes
The
Cut Deeper Force belongs
to Ed Balducci even though
some prefer to credit the move to others.
You
can have the spectator cut two more times,
five times total. Any ODD number of cuts will
do. Three times seems right to me. Do not
mention how many times, of course, just ask
them to do it!
If
you would like to, at the end after the cut,
turn over the deck and spread it so that you
immediately show all the cards face down except
the selected one face up in the middle.
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