Twist
& Shout
Card Apparitions are always
welcome and seem to have a great appeal among
magicians. I have something similar in my
routine Nobody At Home (written elsewhere
in this book) which is done on the table.
The following variation is done entirely in
your hands. It can be used as an Ace production
or as a selected card production. Either way
I hope this small item will find a place in
your act or in one of your routines. Do not
forget to take a look at the short but effective
trick at the end of the basic move. You'll
like it!
Effect
A card is stuck into the
middle of the deck and left side-jogged. The
fingers of the left hand bend this card sharply
which causes a portion of the deck to spring
up. This portion makes a revolution and lands
face up revealing an Ace (or perhaps a selected
card)!
Performance
Let us imagine that you want
to produce an Ace. Have the Ace on the bottom
of the face down deck. You may want to give
the deck a brief shuffle and perhaps a couple
of False Cuts, leaving
the Ace on the bottom. Grip the deck from
above in the right hand (Biddle
Grip) and with the right forefinger
Swing Cut (also called
Swivel Cut) the top two thirds of the deck into the left hand (leaving
in the right hand the bottom third). See figure
1 of the previous trick (By Mistake)
for the action of the Swing Cut.
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The
left thumb is brought onto the top card
of the left hand portion and it swivels
this card to the left so that this card
ends up crosswise on the deck. The right
hand then drops its cards on top as
in figure 1. The
card just moved remains protruding to
the left. Directly above this card you
have the Ace or the card you want to
produce. The left thumb rests along
the left short side of the protruding
card and the left fingers are steady
at the long eight side of the deck and
in contact with the right short side
of the protruding card (and the whole
deck). Study figure 1
again and note the position of the thumb
and fingers of the left hand.
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push the left thumb down on the edge
of the protruding card, so that the
side-jogged card bends and causes
the top third of the deck to spring
up in the air. (When the left thumb
pushes down on this card, the motion
is to the right toward the left fingers.)
The top third will make a half revolution
and will land face up onto the left
hand cards (directly onto the side-jogged
card) revealing the Ace (the final
position is similar to figure
2). The right hand never takes
action during the above moves but
it approaches the deck now, which
is in the left hand, to remove the
top third or the selected card. Easy
and effective.
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Notes
I think
that you'll get the hang of it in just a few
minutes and you'll see how easy it is.
A brief
effect with the move: Have two cards selected
and control one on top and the other on the
bottom. Perform a Double Turnover
(i.e., the right hand takes the top two cards
of the deck as one and it turns them over
face up on top of the deck) revealing an indifferent
card. Turn the double card face down and perform
the entire move as explained. The first card
is revealed by the top third that flips face
up. The second selected card is revealed by
turning over the side- jogged card that has
now changed into the selected one.
