Ray Kosby - Impossible Card Magic
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00:00 [Piano music]
00:06 [Applause]
00:09 Can I take you guys home with me, really?
00:11 Feels so good.
00:13 This is not an ordinary 3.
00:15 It's actually a card with a smudge right in the middle of it.
00:18 Fortunately for us, we have a tiny Eureka vacuum cleaner
00:21 hidden inside this card case.
00:24 All you have to do is turn it on.
00:26 [Vacuum cleaner noise]
00:29 Now just keep your eyes on the smudge.
00:31 [Vacuum cleaner noise]
00:41 Thank you.
00:42 The only other thing you've got to remember,
00:44 always clean the vacuum cleaner when you're through.
00:47 [Applause]
00:49 Thank you.
00:51 This is actually a pick-off pip,
00:54 and I used the card case to do the color change.
00:57 You need three of a kind.
00:59 Well, you need an Ace, 2, and 3 of any suit.
01:02 So we're going to use diamonds.
01:04 Take the Ace, put it into the case,
01:07 face up, face down, doesn't really matter.
01:09 Fold the flap in on top of that Ace.
01:12 It holds it in place.
01:14 Put a 3 at the face of the deck.
01:18 Put a 2 second from the back of the deck.
01:21 It's best to put a picture card below it,
01:23 at the very back of the deck.
01:24 This was an idea of my friend Bill Goodwin's out in California,
01:27 and you'll see why this is a good idea a little later.
01:32 Put everything in the card case.
01:34 Don't worry about the flap not closing everything up.
01:36 And when you're ready to perform,
01:38 you just bring out the card case and go for it.
01:42 Slide out the deck,
01:43 but you'll be sliding out with the face of the cards toward the audience.
01:47 Behind the scenes,
01:49 you're going to use your right thumb to slide two cards down.
01:53 Actually, it doesn't matter if you slide more,
01:55 just get a bunch of steps.
01:57 Feel for the second card down with your left first finger.
02:02 Pull down until those cards go into the card case.
02:05 That's going to be the 2 of diamonds and the face card that was behind it.
02:10 Slide out the remainder of the cards,
02:14 faces towards the audience.
02:16 Turn your left hand palm up,
02:18 so the deck ends up in dealing position.
02:20 Set the deck on top.
02:23 This hides the mouth of the card case,
02:25 which has the two cards in it, from your audience.
02:30 You don't want them to see those cards prematurely.
02:34 Talk about the middle pip on the 3 being a smudge.
02:37 Hold the card case so the mouth is pointing slightly toward you,
02:40 again to shade the two cards within it.
02:45 And then get the deck ready by holding your little finger on the lower pip,
02:49 I mean the lower index,
02:50 and your thumb on the upper index to cover them both.
02:53 Lay the deck right down the middle on the card case.
02:57 You're covering the middle pip of the 3.
03:02 You're going to be talking about this being a tiny vacuum cleaner.
03:06 While you're talking, snap with your second finger the back of the card case.
03:11 Put your left first finger at the front of the deck
03:14 and keep your thumb just off the surface of the card.
03:19 The reason why is when you snap,
03:21 that will propel the two cards from within the case
03:25 out of the case over that 3.
03:30 Your thumb's going to cover the index,
03:32 so they cannot tell it's the 2.
03:33 So really you have a 2 and the queen covering the 3.
03:41 Bend the case upright.
03:44 Now the cards are bent,
03:47 but it's not such a severe bend that you're going to leave a permanent crimp.
03:53 Hold the deck so they can see the middle pip.
03:56 If you have to, turn your hand over, whatever the circumstances dictate.
04:00 Pretend to turn on a vacuum cleaner and make a noise with your mouth.
04:04 This will cover the sliding sound of the cards sliding out of the case.
04:08 So while you're making the noise with your mouth,
04:10 lift the case up just a tiny bit and slide it inward.
04:15 The two cards will be sliding out of the case and right onto the 3.
04:21 Now don't stop at this point.
04:23 If you were to stop at this point and reveal it, it would be kind of a boring trick.
04:26 Slide forward again and back and forth a few times,
04:29 and then slide the case off sideways.
04:32 This little time misdirection will hopefully make the audience forget
04:36 how far back you pulled the case.
04:38 So they should just remember you slid the case back and forth over the face of the cards
04:42 and then slid it off to the right.
04:44 Set the case down on the table,
04:46 and now you can push off the face card of the deck
04:49 and show that you removed the middle pip.
04:52 The reason why is the face card that was behind it is covering the 3.
04:56 Thank you, Bill.
04:59 For a closing statement, you do not have to do this, though.
05:03 Open up the card case, remove the ace, and say, "That was the spot I removed."
05:10 Thanks.
05:12 So, you guys seen enough card tricks yet?
05:14 No.
05:15 Good.
05:16 Oh, thank you.
05:17 Now, if you are tired of card tricks, I understand.
05:19 You can tell me.
05:20 It won't hurt my feelings much.
05:22 So, do you want to see one more?
05:24 Yes.
05:25 Okay, good.
05:26 We'll do one more.
05:29 Could you hold on to this, Rebecca, please?
05:31 I do things over and over again at home, and I don't know why.
05:35 Chiyo, I need you to hold on to two special cards.
05:38 The Jack of Hearts and Jack of Diamonds.
05:40 We'll be back to why in a moment.
05:42 Tina, take a card.
05:44 We're going to play a card game.
05:45 It's like a card trick, but it's fun.
05:48 Show it to everybody.
05:49 Thanks.
05:50 Okay, I'll have that back.
05:51 We're going to lose it among all its friends.
05:54 So, it looks a lot like a card trick still, but this is where it's different.
05:59 Can I have those back?
06:00 These are not ordinary jacks.
06:01 These are called pack jacks.
06:03 Remember Pac-Man?
06:04 One hand operates the simple controls.
06:06 The other hand operates the pack jacks.
06:07 It kicks out a card into the air.
06:10 It catches it inches before it hits the person.
06:15 Would you hold on to this, Tina?
06:16 No, the game's over, but it doesn't mean I won.
06:18 What was the name of the card you chose, Tina?
06:21 King of Hearts.
06:23 Now, wait, wait.
06:24 I can do this with more than one card.
06:27 We can make this better.
06:28 Would you hold these again, please?
06:30 Okay.
06:31 Tina, touch one, but don't take it away.
06:33 Okay, we've eliminated one card.
06:35 Take the rest.
06:36 Okay, look through them and remember them, all of them.
06:40 Now, this will help.
06:42 If you remember the card you didn't choose, you know the cards you did choose.
06:46 Put your cards on top of the deck.
06:48 Now, I'll have to shuffle the deck into your cards.
06:51 And now, we're going to find your cards with the jacks.
06:54 Do you remember a moment ago?
06:55 I'm sure you do.
06:56 I held the jacks on the left and the deck on the right,
06:58 and we found a card flying out.
07:00 We're going to do that again.
07:01 Here we go.
07:02 There's the card you didn't choose.
07:03 There's the cards you did choose.
07:05 Game over.
07:07 Thanks.
07:12 Ray, there have been a lot of tricks where a deck of cards reappear in the case,
07:16 and frequently they involve some kind of a fake card case
07:19 or some kind of construction or a gimmick.
07:22 Yours is really nice because you don't have to do that.
07:25 It's an ordinary box.
07:26 There's no preparation.
07:28 I like it.
07:29 Re-case me, Ray.
07:31 You need to dress up for this one.
07:33 You need a jacket because you're going to actually sleeve the entire deck of cards.
07:37 It's a very simple thing to do because the case will be on it.
07:40 To the audience, it looks like you remove the cards from the case,
07:43 put the case in your pocket, and then the case is back on the cards.
07:46 What's really happening is you're removing one card from the case.
07:50 As you slide out the entire deck,
07:52 you only slide it out about an inch before your right first finger touches the back of the top card.
07:59 It holds that card still while your left fingers underneath slide the remaining cards into the case.
08:09 Your first finger of your left hand does most of the work shoving the cards home.
08:13 After the cards are in the case, close the case with your left first finger.
08:17 The audience can't see this. It's very brief. And the back of that one card is hiding everything.
08:23 Slide that single card out as if it was the entire deck.
08:26 This means have fingers on as many sides of the card as possible.
08:30 First finger on the front, thumb on the top, the other fingers on the lower long side.
08:35 Lower your hand to your side, keeping the back of the card toward the audience as much as possible.
08:39 When your hand's low enough, bring the deck up into view to catch their attention.
08:44 You slip the case deck, which they don't know the deck's in, into your pocket.
08:49 But you reach all the way into your coat sleeve from the inside, slip the case into it, and let it drop.
08:59 The case will slide right behind the card you kept.
09:04 Once the deck has arrived behind the card you held out, bring up the card case back toward the audience,
09:11 remove the deck from the case, keeping the card hidden behind it,
09:15 and then put the case away with the card behind it and continue on.
09:19 Who needs 52 cards anyways?
09:21 Ray, I really like the way you handle your follow-up to Darryl's snowshoe sandwich,
09:25 the trick you call pack jacks.
09:27 Now, David Williamson had a trick, the 51 cards to pocket in his book, "Williamson Wonders,"
09:31 written and illustrated by Bois, that used a similar type of premise where the bulk of the deck went one way
09:37 and the selected card went the other way, and it was the opposite of expectation.
09:41 Ray utilizes the same type of idea in this follow-up to snowshoe sandwich.
09:45 Take it, Ray.
09:46 Thank you, Richard.
09:48 You need two jacks.
09:49 These are the sandwich cards.
09:51 Have the audience touch one card.
09:53 Don't take it away.
09:54 You take the card they touched.
09:56 You hand them the deck and tell them to memorize all the cards.
10:00 Then show them that the card they didn't choose and explain that if they remember the card they didn't choose,
10:05 they know the cards they did choose.
10:08 They put their cards on top of the deck.
10:10 You get a break between the card they didn't choose and the remainder of the deck.
10:14 Double cut the non-chosen card to the top.
10:20 Get a break underneath it.
10:21 Take the jacks.
10:22 Add them on top.
10:24 Now, when your right hand comes over to take the deck in biddle grip,
10:29 your left little finger pushes the third card down, the card they didn't choose, to the right.
10:37 Hold the deck so it's perpendicular to the table.
10:39 This will hide the next move.
10:41 Now, I'm going to expose it for you so you can see it.
10:44 The left hand peels off the first jack.
10:50 The jack is held between the fork of the first and second finger,
10:54 and the left third and fourth finger hold the card.
10:58 Notice that your first and second finger are along the top edge of the jack, the front edge.
11:03 When they come back to take the next jack, let go of the entire deck
11:11 so it slides beneath the second jack.
11:15 Now you're holding one card in your right hand as if it was the entire deck.
11:18 The left hand is holding the entire deck but blocking the left side with the back of the left hand
11:23 and the front edge with your first and second finger.
11:27 The back edge is tipped slightly towards you to hide it.
11:29 The right hand pauses for a moment, makes a throwing action, snapping its card face up.
11:34 The left hand just opens and closes quickly.
11:37 The deck will slide out and be caught between the jacks.
11:41 This is the card they didn't choose. These are the cards they did choose. That's the end.
11:47 Thank you. Aw, come on, a group hug! Aw!
11:51 Anyways, let's go back to our regularly scheduled card tricks.
11:55 Tio, help me with this please. I'm going to show you cards one at a time.
12:01 Think of one of the cards that you see.
12:05 Good. Now I'm not a mind reader so I don't know what card you saw,
12:09 but I am a good guesser and I can probably hit it right on.
12:14 Okay, that's my guess. If it's right, I'll show it to you.
12:17 Tell everybody else here what card you thought of.
12:20 Two of hearts. Okay, I'm not going to touch the card that I left sticking out
12:24 and show you that it is indeed the two of hearts. And great minds do think alike.
12:28 Thank you.
12:33 Ray, can you do us a favor and tell us a little bit about the item you did called deep thought?
12:38 I mean, it seemed to me almost like real mind reading.
12:41 That's the impression I'm trying to give the audience.
12:43 Wait a minute. Are you saying that you're really reading their minds?
12:47 No, Mr. Andrus. I'm telling them that I'm pretending to read their mind.
12:50 It's not real, although it looks good.
12:55 Bye, Jerry. Bye, Jerry.
13:00 Ray, maybe you'll show us how deep thought is done.
13:04 Thanks, Richard.
13:06 This is a trick based on Paul Harris' "Think of a Card" from his first book,
13:10 "The Magic of Paul Harris."
13:12 And it's almost identical to his trick with the exception of a card switch,
13:17 which we'll go into shortly.
13:19 First, you have to have someone think of a card.
13:22 But you want them to think of only one of a few cards.
13:26 So you very slowly show the cards to your audience.
13:30 Now, on the first card, you tip it back toward you just enough so you can read the index of the card and remember it.
13:39 Then you slowly go card by card.
13:42 That way it gives them plenty of time to think of one of the first few cards.
13:47 Normally, you only have to go through six cards or so before somebody says, "I got one."
13:53 At that point, your left thumb jogs back the top card of its deck.
14:00 That way you can put the cards that are potential selections on top and control them.
14:06 Shuffle those cards to the bottom by pushing in on the end jog,
14:10 cutting everything below it, and doing an overhand shuffle.
14:16 You need a few cards below the selections.
14:19 So shuffle five single cards and throw.
14:23 Now, the selections are in here.
14:28 The card that you memorized, your key card, is the nine of clubs.
14:34 Their selections could be any one of these, and I can see all the indices.
14:40 All I have to do is know which card they selected.
14:43 So I make an excuse for them to tell everyone in the audience the name of the card,
14:48 supposedly so everybody knows what the card is when you turn the fan around.
14:52 You hold the fan back towards the audience.
14:55 Let's say they call out the two of diamonds.
14:57 I'll give you a better view of how this works.
15:02 They're going to call out the two of diamonds as you close the fan.
15:06 The way you close the fan is your right thumb contacts the corner of the fan from underneath.
15:11 The right middle finger contacts the card that they called out, in this case the two of diamonds,
15:15 and presses gently against it.
15:17 Just close the fan counterclockwise, and your middle finger holds the two still,
15:23 so it will be angle jogged.
15:27 Now I'm gripping the deck just momentarily between my right thumb and middle fingers on the outer right corners,
15:34 so I can re-grip the deck in my left hand in a dealing grip.
15:37 What this accomplishes is my left thumb is going to push these cards square,
15:42 the nine of clubs and the two of diamonds.
15:44 That will push, if you look at the lower right corner of the deck,
15:48 that will push the two of diamonds through the deck, so it's now angle jogged at the lower right corner.
15:54 This is important for the next maneuver.
15:57 The next maneuver is called the ambitious riser.
16:00 It was devised by Fred Robinson of England.
16:03 It's a card rise that we use as a switch for this effect.
16:08 You're going to reveal the card by rotating your left hand palm up,
16:12 so the audience can see the faces of the cards.
16:15 As you are rotating your right hand palm up, your left little finger will rise up the two of diamonds.
16:22 The grip on the deck is important.
16:24 It's resting on the base of the first finger.
16:29 It's held only between two fingers, the thumb along the side, parallel to the side,
16:34 and your middle finger at the upper corner.
16:37 Your little finger stretches down, touches the corner of the two, and just pushes straight up.
16:44 The two rises up in front of the nine, as your right hand lowers to show the face of the card to the audience.
16:52 Underneath the two, your left first finger is going to hide the nine by pushing down on it
17:00 until it ends up flush in the deck.
17:03 To the audience, it looks like you just lowered your hand to show the two, and you are clean.
17:10 You can remove the two and accept your applause.
17:15 [Applause]
17:16 Thank you.
17:19 Chia, do you have a pen?
17:21 Yes, sure.
17:22 Do me a favor. Cut the cards.
17:24 Yeah, we'll be needing that.
17:25 Okay, you could cut anywhere. Let's see what you cut to.
17:29 The five of diamonds. Great.
17:31 Would you do me a favor and put your initials on that five of diamonds?
17:36 Okay, so there may be more than one five of diamonds in this deck, but there's only one with RW, which stands for Chio.
17:43 Okay. Every time I put that five of diamonds in the deck, you'd expect it to stay there in the middle, right?
17:48 Well, this is a special deck of cards.
17:50 If I push the button right in the top, it comes back up to the top with your initials on it.
17:54 Now, some people accuse me of not really placing that five of diamonds in the middle of the deck, and I don't blame them.
17:58 I'm not exactly an innocent-looking person.
18:01 But it's not near the top. It's not near the bottom.
18:03 I'm not really placing it in there until I push that button, and it comes back up to the top with your initials on it.
18:07 Now, I can't see it go to the top. Can you see it go to the top?
18:10 The reason why is I'm pushing it square in with the other cards.
18:13 If I were to leave it sticking out, you'd be able to see it, right?
18:16 So I'm going to put it in the middle of the deck.
18:19 Actually, instead of putting it in the middle, I'm going to put it just a little lower this time.
18:23 Now, sticking out near the bottom. And I'm going to do this really slowly so you can see it.
18:27 Keep your eyes on the card sticking out.
18:28 If I give the cards a gentle shake, it jumps up to about the middle from near the bottom.
18:32 Give the cards another shake, it jumps up to near the top.
18:34 Give the cards one last shake, it jumps up so it is the top with your initials on it.
18:39 Thank you.
18:40 Wait, wait, wait. There's more.
18:42 It doesn't stop there.
18:44 If you let it rest on top and you ruffle the cards gently, it goes down through all the other cards to the bottom with your initials on it.
18:49 Thank you.
18:51 Ray, I think one of the things for which everybody knows you best is Ray's Rise, which is not R-A-Y apostrophe S.
19:00 It's not Ray's Rise. It's Ray's Rise. R-A-I-S-E. Rise.
19:06 It's appeared in the Magical Arts Journal, but I don't think any printed description would enable anybody to learn an amazing effect like Ray's Rise.
19:15 Please explain it to us in detail. Take your time. Make it clear.
19:20 No problem.
19:22 You need to prepare the deck just a little bit with two in-jocks about the middle of the deck.
19:28 Say you have a card selected and you're displaying it.
19:31 You pull down with your left little finger about two-thirds of the deck.
19:38 Reach up with your left little finger and push out the card above it to the right.
19:45 Then square it up and it will be in-jocked.
19:48 Do the same thing again about ten cards below the first one.
19:51 Now, you don't have to get the two in-jocks this way.
19:54 You could just as easily spread the deck and in-jock the cards as a card is being selected.
19:59 This is just how I do it.
20:01 You need to insert the selection between the in-jocks.
20:04 The easiest way is to riffle down with your left thumb until you feel a click caused by the first in-jock card.
20:11 Continue riffling about five or six cards.
20:14 Insert the selection in between.
20:16 So now the selection is in between the block of cards between the jocks.
20:22 Show the audience the face of the selection in preparation for the ambitious riser move.
20:28 You're going to use that move to switch out the selection and the top in-jock card.
20:36 So as your hand lowers, your left little finger does the rise, and your left first finger pushes in on the selection.
20:48 Now, when the selection is almost square with the deck, pull down on it so you are able to cut the deck with the selection being on top of the lower half.
20:58 As you're about to slap the lower half on top of the deck, glide the top card of the left half so you will have an in-jock when the cut is complete.
21:11 Now you have two in-jocks, one in the middle, one near the top, and an indifferent card sticking out that the audience thinks is the selection.
21:20 The selection is on top of the deck.
21:23 This is where the action starts.
21:25 You're going to shake the deck downward and upward.
21:28 I try to make it as small a shake as possible, but when learning, I suggest you bend at the wrist until the entire face of the deck is pointing towards the audience, and then swing up.
21:38 That gives you lots of time and lots of swing.
21:42 You don't have to swing from the arm, just from the wrist.
21:45 Now, while you're doing that move, that shaking move, you're going to do the ambitious riser from the lower most in-jocked card.
21:52 Just reach back with your little finger, rise it out.
21:55 At the same time, your first finger, your left first finger, pushes in on the indifferent card that was sticking out.
22:02 To the audience, it looks like the card just magically jumped up about ten cards into the deck.
22:07 Now, to help the audience see that, it's helpful to make sure the deck is beveled.
22:11 That way, they can see the card make its way up to the top.
22:16 Do the next card the same way.
22:19 Rise out the in-jocked card that's near the top of the deck.
22:22 Push in on the in-jocked card from the middle while you're shaking the deck.
22:27 Pause again so the audience can see that the card is very close to the top.
22:31 Now, for the last card, you have two ways of doing it.
22:33 You can either glide back the top card of the deck so you have an in-jocked and do the same move with the top card of the deck,
22:41 or you can do something just a little easier.
22:45 You can just use your left thumb to do the same thing.
22:49 Reach back with your left thumb while you're shaking the deck, touch the middle of the top card, push it forward.
22:54 At the same time, your left first finger pushes in on the indifferent card that was sticking out.
23:01 Pause a moment, then you're going to reveal that the selected card is on top of the deck
23:06 by pushing with your left thumb down and out.
23:11 And with your left first finger, you're going to push to the left.
23:16 So the left thumb is pushing to the right, the left first finger is pushing to the left.
23:20 That causes the card to spin out and face the audience in front of the front edge of the deck.
23:27 Now, when the audience is applauding and they think the trick is over, that's your moment of misdirection for a one-handed bottom change.
23:35 The way you accomplish this is you put your first two fingers on the front of the deck, on the front of the selected card,
23:42 your first finger and second finger, and you let go with your thumb on the back.
23:48 Now slowly pull the selection down toward the outer right corner of the deck until you can let go with all your fingers
23:55 and the deck will be balanced on the card.
24:00 Now your thumb, your left thumb, can push the new top card to the right and outward.
24:08 Continue pulling the selection underneath the deck. It's just balanced. The deck is just balanced on the selection.
24:13 Once the selection is all the way underneath the deck, your left thumb pushes outward so the new top card lifts up.
24:20 You can re-grab the deck with your left fingers and then your left first finger reaches underneath
24:26 and pushes the new top card up against your thumb.
24:30 So to the audience, it looks like nothing happened. You were just holding the card, displaying it,
24:36 and now you're still holding the card with the same hand.
24:38 Actually, the card did change positions. It did change grips, but I've never been called on it.
24:43 I don't think the audience is paying attention to this detail.
24:46 When the audience settled down, say you're going to do one more thing, what goes up must come down, whatever you please.
24:51 Let the card settle on top of the deck, riffle the cards for the magic moment,
24:56 then slowly turn over the deck to show that the selection went downward through all the cards onto the face of the deck.
25:02 Now Ray, I think it would be really nice if you were to do the rise again, the whole sequence,
25:08 but don't verbalize the explanation this time.
25:12 We're going to show a very detailed close-up as you go through the entire sequence of both out-jogs,
25:17 put the card on the top, do the cut, and then choof, choof, choof.
25:21 And of course, as you raise and lower your hand and you're doing the ambitious riser,
25:25 the larger movement of the hand dipping covers the smaller action of the card,
25:29 of the little finger pushing the card outward.
25:32 [ Silence ]
25:41 [ Silence ]
26:09 [ Applause ]
26:12 Okay, you guys still around? All right, let's do another card trick.
26:15 We're going to use these two queens. They're going to be a Venus flytrap in just a moment.
26:20 Chiyo, I need you to choose a card. Please touch the back of one card.
26:25 Good choice, the Queen of Diamonds.
26:28 Okay, that Queen of Diamonds is perilously exposed, sticking out like that, right above those vicious queens.
26:33 All we have to do is give the cards a little shake.
26:35 That causes the black queens to trap the Queen of Diamonds above and below.
26:40 Oh, wow.
26:42 Thank you.
26:45 I really don't care for most sandwich effects. How many sandwich effects can you see?
26:49 But Venus flytrap is really terrific. It's quick, looks exciting,
26:54 and it uses one of your favorites, Fred Robinson's ambitious riser move,
26:58 which originally appeared in "Pabula." Would you please explain Venus flytrap for us?
27:02 If I must.
27:04 We'll use the queens for the sandwich cards because it fits in with the storyline.
27:09 Insert the queens about ten cards from the bottom and spread them so the uppermost queen goes to the left.
27:18 And also it should be sticking out a little further than the lowermost queen.
27:21 This will help you with the next move.
27:23 Underneath these queens, your left first finger is going to in-jog the block of ten cards or so that's right below it.
27:29 Just about a quarter of an inch, that's all you need.
27:32 Your right first finger and fourth finger.
27:36 Square those two queens.
27:39 Now underneath the deck, the lowermost queen is in-jogged below the outermost queen.
27:45 While you're squaring, your left first finger can pull down and in on the lowermost queen.
27:50 You're going to push that lowermost queen square with the upper block.
27:56 It shouldn't be on top of this lower block.
28:00 It should be even with the upper block.
28:04 Pull down with your left little finger on the step so you can push up against the back of the red queen.
28:11 Ask the audience to select a card.
28:14 Spread the cards for the selection.
28:16 As that's happening, your left little finger is going to push the red queen out to the side at an angle, much like a side steal.
28:23 It's pivoting on my left second finger at the upper right corner.
28:28 When you've got it out far enough, pull it underneath the spread with your right fingers.
28:34 When the audience touches the card, take it completely away underneath the spread.
28:38 Flip the selection over, face up.
28:41 Flip it face down.
28:42 Out-jog it.
28:44 Now you will load the red queen from the right spread on top of the selection as you square the cards.
28:50 I'm pivoting the red queen on its upper right corner on my right first finger.
28:55 The important thing is to make sure that that queen is in-jogged because you will do the ambitious riser move with it shortly.
29:05 Devil the top cards of the deck back towards you so it covers the in-jog from the audience's view.
29:12 Now you're going to do that same shaking motion from raise/rise to cover the move.
29:19 As your hand shakes the deck, reach back with your little finger.
29:26 Touch the queen, pull it out to the right, do the rise move, but don't rise it so far that you cover the selection.
29:35 Now you have this situation where it looks like they're sandwiched, but there's this gap between the selection and the lower-most queen.
29:41 The way you fix that is by breaking your wrist so it tips down and underneath the deck, pushing up with your first finger
29:50 until the lower-most queen touches the face of the selection.
29:53 But when you break your wrist and tip down, it covers the fact that there's this gap and the card's being pushed up.
29:59 Don't sit in this position too long.
30:01 The people will start to notice.
30:02 Grab the three cards at the right side with your right hand, strip out the deck, and you have a sandwich that you can display.
30:13 No, no more. I can't do more. No.
30:16 Oh, please.
30:17 Oh, well, if you say please.
30:19 Rebecca, you're going to help me with this.
30:21 I'm going to riffle the cards towards your eyes, and you're going to see all the faces of all the cards,
30:25 and you're going to think of one of the cards that you see.
30:27 Okay.
30:28 Now don't think of the face one. That's too easy.
30:30 Oh.
30:31 Okay.
30:32 Now I'm going to riffle the cards again.
30:33 The card that you were thinking of jumps out of the deck.
30:36 What was the card that you were thinking of?
30:37 Ten of clubs.
30:39 Oh.
30:40 What was it?
30:41 Five of clubs.
30:42 Oh.
30:43 That's half right.
30:44 See, it's five clubs on a ten of clubs.
30:47 Okay. Well, let's do something else.
30:49 Let's take this ten of clubs and insert it back in the deck.
30:50 I think that was about the spot it was at.
30:52 Would you please hold on to the corner of the card?
30:54 Go ahead and gently pull.
30:56 And that re-heals the ten of clubs back to this whole state.
30:58 Go ahead. Show everybody.
31:00 Back to the way it was before.
31:01 [laughter]
31:04 You are healed.
31:05 [laughter]
31:08 Oh, my God.
31:10 Sometimes you're half right. Sometimes you're half wrong.
31:12 In this trick, he's only half right.
31:14 But it's a good half.
31:17 There aren't many decent Torn and Restored card routines that are quick, visual,
31:20 not a lot of monkeying around.
31:23 Please teach us how to do half right.
31:25 With pleasure.
31:27 The purpose of this Torn and Restored card was to have motivation for tearing the card.
31:31 And this is what I came up with.
31:33 You need to have a set-up.
31:35 In the middle of the deck, you need a ten of clubs, a five of clubs,
31:39 and half of a ten of clubs from another deck.
31:41 And it doesn't matter what deck that's from.
31:43 If you notice, I've got a different back from this deck.
31:45 They never see the back of the half card.
31:48 So that's your set-up.
31:49 Five at the bottom, half card, and then the matching ten.
31:55 You need to hold the deck so the half card is toward the lower end.
31:59 Devil the deck to the left to make it easier for you to riffle the corners.
32:03 This is a very old force.
32:05 I don't know where it came from, and it's not 100%.
32:08 But if you have a large repertoire, you should be able to go into other things if this fails.
32:14 Hold the deck at the lower left corner.
32:16 And then riffle the cards slowly so the audience can see all the faces of the cards.
32:22 And ask them, while you're riffling, to think of one.
32:25 Due to the half card being at the bottom, there'll be a slight break in the rhythm,
32:29 and they'll be able to see more of that five of clubs right behind the half card.
32:33 That's your force card.
32:35 Ask them if they have one, and when you do,
32:37 that's your misdirection for grabbing the deck in your right hand and rotating it end for end.
32:42 Now bevel the deck again to the left, and then slide a few cards to the right.
32:47 This is to hide the next move. It's not 100%, and you need to cover possible accidents.
32:53 You're going to say that there are cards going to jump out of the deck, the card they're thinking of.
32:57 Grab the deck at the bottom. Now the half card is along the top edge.
33:01 Riffle the cards, and the half card will jump up.
33:07 Now the reason why the bevel's there is because if the half card jumped too far to the right,
33:13 the bevel to the right will cover that.
33:15 If it jumped too far to the left, the bevel at the left will cover it from the audience's view.
33:20 Square the deck, and now you're going to pretend to rip the card.
33:24 The reason for ripping the card is you're going to ask them, "Did they think of this card?"
33:30 They said, "No." And you look at it for a second, and you think, "The 10. Oh, you thought of the 5."
33:35 And they go, "Yes." And you go, "Oh, well, I was half right."
33:38 While you do that, you grab the upper right corner of the 10, the half card.
33:43 Pull it in towards you so you can get a little finger break with your left little finger.
33:47 You're going to pretend to rip the card by pulling the deck toward the audience and the half card toward you.
33:56 Try to rub the edges of the half card against the deck as you tear to get a nice ripping sound.
34:01 Now you say you were half right. It was the half of the 10, the 5 clubs.
34:06 That's the best motivation I can come up with.
34:08 I'm sure if you put your mind to it, you might be able to come up with something else.
34:12 While you're displaying the half card, you get an in jog with your left little finger.
34:17 The way that's done is you had a break.
34:19 Your left little finger pulls down and presses on the card below it.
34:24 Pull to the right and then square.
34:30 This results in the real 10 of clubs being in jogged.
34:35 Insert the half card in the deck just below the in jog 10.
34:39 The way you do that is riffling down until you feel a click caused by the in jog 10.
34:45 Riffle a few more cards. Insert the half card.
34:50 Now you will turn your hand palm up to display the back of the card.
34:57 As you're doing that, you will do the ambitious riser to switch out the cards.
35:02 Reach down with your little finger until you feel the corner of the in jog card.
35:07 Pull it out to the right. Push up.
35:10 As that's happening, your first finger underneath the deck pulls the half card in square with the deck.
35:20 Have the audience grab the corner of the half card.
35:23 Pull the deck away and let them see that they have a completely restored card.
35:29 Now while they're doing that, rotate the deck end for end.
35:35 Now the half card is at the back. Riffle the cards towards you, causing the half card to jump out of the deck.
35:41 This enables you to cop the card as you remove the deck.
35:48 [audience applause]
35:51 Thank you. Rebecca, touch any four cards you want.
35:55 Okay, choose another one.
35:58 Okay, you could have chosen any one you want. You just can't change your mind.
36:02 That one's a good choice. And touch one more.
36:06 Okay. Now let's see how you did.
36:10 [audience gasps]
36:12 Oh good, the aces. That's just what I needed.
36:14 [audience applause]
36:17 Ray, I really enjoy Freedom of Choice.
36:20 This is one of the best versions of the spectator locates the aces kind of thing that I've seen,
36:25 just because it's just so clean.
36:27 You know, people are waiting for a slight or a move.
36:30 You just out jog the cards, you just raise your hands and there they are.
36:33 You couldn't ask for anything more.
36:35 It's not easy.
36:36 No, it's not.
36:37 Not easy. Will you please teach us Freedom of Choice?
36:40 It's not easy, but it is simple, because you don't have to do very many moves.
36:44 You learn one move and you do it over and over again.
36:46 The setup is simple. Have four aces at the face of the deck.
36:50 You can cop them or palm them, have the deck shuffled, return to you and add them on, whatever your preference is.
36:56 After the deck's been set up, you're going to have the spectator choose four cards by touching the backs of the cards, not removing it.
37:05 Spread the cards so the spectator can choose one.
37:08 As soon as they touch one, out jog it most of the way.
37:11 After the first selection is made, the work starts to happen underneath the deck.
37:17 While the first selection's being made, slide the bottom card over to your right fingers.
37:22 This is done by loosening the card first with your left middle finger, and then pushing the card over with your left third and fourth fingers.
37:33 When the second card is touched, slip the ace that you slid over to your right hand directly underneath the second selection.
37:42 Up jog them both and start to slide over the next ace into your right fingers.
37:48 So you're really up jogging three cards, but the audience thinks you're up jogging one.
37:54 Now you're going to do the same move again, but this is easier. You've already got one ready.
37:58 The third card is chosen. Get an ace ready.
38:02 You're sliding this third selection up right above the ace that's hidden underneath the first two.
38:09 Now from the top, the audience can't tell what's going on.
38:12 The reason why is the cards being spread like they are hides the aces.
38:18 We'll continue shooting from underneath so you can see exactly what goes on.
38:23 The third ace is now ready for the fourth selection.
38:29 Slide the fourth selection above the third ace. Load the last ace underneath the spread cards.
38:34 Hold them with your right fingers at the lower right corner.
38:36 Now you need to reload that last ace into the remaining cards.
38:41 So spread about five or six cards and then insert the left lower corner of the last ace into the remaining cards
38:48 and square those bottom few cards in your left hand.
38:53 The whole time, the backs of the cards are towards the audience.
38:57 At this point, you've got to switch two cards.
38:59 You need to switch the first card they chose,
39:03 and you need to switch in the last ace you loaded that's hidden underneath on the left side.
39:07 You cannot see it now.
39:09 The way I do this is as my hands raise up to show the faces of the cards,
39:14 my right thumb, which is on the block of cards above the first selection and touching the first selection,
39:20 slides them to the left.
39:23 Now, from underneath, while the hands are going up,
39:27 my left thumb is on the left side of the block of cards containing the last ace,
39:35 and it's going to slide all the cards above that last ace to the right.
39:43 The spread is a little messed up due to the difficulty of showing you the exposed view,
39:48 but when the hands arrive at their destination, the audience should see four aces.
39:56 The nice part about this is you do not have to strip the aces out to show them or mess with them.
40:00 The audience touches four, and then you show four right away, and that was the whole goal of this trick.
40:05 Ray, could you please put the aces on the bottom of the deck and do this again at full speed without talking
40:10 and just show us what it would look like when done normally?
40:13 Okay.
40:15 [pause]
40:40 Now, there is a cleanup for this, Richard.
40:42 Once you're stuck at this point, you don't want to--you may want to use the aces for another trick.
40:47 The way to clean up can be seen from the back.
40:51 You have four exposed corners.
40:54 Your right hand comes over to close--to hit those corners.
40:59 The right index finger hits one, two, three, four, kicking them off to the side.
41:05 Now, all you have to do is square the cards that are not kicked off to the side with the deck,
41:12 strip out the aces, and you're ready to go on with the next effect.
41:19 [applause]
41:23 Thank you.
41:24 Keo, help me mix these together, please.
41:26 Sure.
41:27 Take the red ones, turn them over.
41:29 Hand me a red one, please.
41:32 Black, red, black, red, black, red, black, okay?
41:38 That's a dress rehearsal.
41:40 Take the red ones, please.
41:41 We're going to mix them together.
41:43 Okay.
41:44 Red, black, red, black, red, black, red, black, red, black.
41:50 Okay, that puts them in a mixed position.
41:53 Until you push on the back, that button there separates the black ones from the red ones.
41:59 Oh.
42:01 Because the black ones are an oil-based ink and the red ones are a water-based ink.
42:06 [applause]
42:10 I can remix them.
42:11 It takes a little work, but if you squeeze hard enough, that causes the blacks and the reds to instantly remix.
42:16 [applause]
42:20 I've seen a lot of versions of oil and water before, and most of them are pretty boring,
42:25 but this one is particularly amazing.
42:27 And we know it's a good version because Larry Jennings uses it a lot, and he certainly has good taste.
42:33 So why don't you show us all how to do this version of oil and water?
42:38 I'll need your help for this, though.
42:39 I can stay.
42:40 Take the red ones, and I'll take the black ones.
42:42 We're going to apparently mix them together so they alternate in color.
42:45 Right.
42:46 But we're really doing sort of a modified Elmslie count.
42:49 Right.
42:50 Okay, turn your cards face down.
42:51 Right.
42:52 Put one in dealing grip in my hand.
42:53 Right.
42:54 Now, I'm going to pretend to place one card on top of that, but what I'm really doing is a triple push-off,
42:59 just like in an Elmslie count.
43:01 Right.
43:02 And as I'm pretending to add those three cards as one, I steal the card you gave me back underneath,
43:09 just like in the last phase of an Elmslie count.
43:12 Now, to add a little extra convincing, you slide the top card forward of the block so it looks like there's two cards.
43:18 You actually have three.
43:19 You really have three.
43:20 Right.
43:21 Okay, place one more card down on top.
43:24 Now, I get a break underneath this one.
43:26 Which one?
43:27 The one you just gave me.
43:28 Okay.
43:29 A big break.
43:30 As I go to take the next card, I steal the card you just put down with my right face.
43:36 So you're leaving the top card and pulling out two.
43:39 Yep.
43:40 Okay.
43:42 Now, you're clean.
43:43 Put one card down.
43:45 I take one cleanly.
43:46 You put one card down.
43:47 I take one cleanly.
43:49 And you can turn them over, and their reds and blacks are separated.
43:54 So two moves and then two clean mixes.
43:57 It's really devious.
43:58 I think there's a second phase to this, right?
44:00 Yes, there is.
44:01 And the funny thing is, the second phase was invented before the first phase.
44:04 Okay.
44:05 Ha ha ha.
44:06 Ha ha ha.
44:08 Okay.
44:09 The cards start off mixed.
44:11 You turn them face down, and you push real hard in the middle of the packet to give it a concave bow.
44:16 This will help with the moves they're going to follow.
44:18 You're going to do a bunch of double lifts in a row.
44:20 Push the first card off, getting a break underneath the second card down.
44:25 Flip the first card over.
44:26 Pick up the double back to back.
44:28 That's the first and second cards.
44:29 First and second cards.
44:31 Do the same thing with the third and fourth cards.
44:32 Push the third card over.
44:33 Get a break underneath the fourth card.
44:35 Flip the third card on top.
44:37 Pick up the back to back double.
44:38 Which is the third and fourth cards.
44:40 Correct.
44:41 Do the same thing with the fifth and sixth cards.
44:44 Push the fifth card over.
44:45 Get a break underneath the sixth card.
44:47 Flip the fifth card face up.
44:49 Pick up the back to back double.
44:50 That's the fifth and sixth cards.
44:52 Notice that they're being spread to the left as you go.
44:54 Push the seventh card over.
44:56 Flip it face up.
44:58 Pick up the seventh card by itself, leaving the eighth card in your left hand back outwards.
45:03 Which of this is a red card?
45:04 This is a red card.
45:05 The audience believes this is four red cards.
45:08 Well, they're going to be convinced of that in a moment.
45:11 The right hand places its cards face up on top of the left hand's card.
45:17 But the left hand card is way down there.
45:19 Lined up with the far right edge of the packet.
45:22 Now you're going to pretend to spread those red cards to the right.
45:26 Your left thumb touches the left edge of the red cards.
45:31 And the left first finger touches the middle.
45:34 Slide your left hand to the right.
45:38 And it looks like the cards are spreading.
45:41 You're just sliding this to--
45:43 But you do this while the packet is black side up, correct?
45:46 No. You turn the packet over in this condition, say, and that leaves red cards on the bottom.
45:50 Ah, okay. That's a good illusion.
45:52 Now you can show both sides of the packet.
45:56 And then square up.
45:57 Now as you're squaring up, you're going to side steal the bottom two.
46:04 Nothing fancy, just a straight side steal.
46:06 Into the right hand.
46:07 Into the right palm.
46:08 This was a suggestion from Louis Simonoff to close the trick.
46:12 Your right hand's going to do a color change by laying on top of the packet and pressing downward.
46:17 Then you spread your fingers.
46:19 And now you can spread the cards to show they remixed back into the red-black condition they started in.
46:26 Instantaneously.
46:28 It's amazing.
46:30 I love it.
46:32 Yeah, forever.
46:33 Gio, touch three cards, please.
46:40 The king, the six, and the six.
46:42 I forgot to warm up before I got here, so I need a chance to warm up.
46:45 You usually start with three cards instead of the whole deck in case I lift something heavy, I strain something.
46:50 This is how I warm up.
46:53 That's the six.
46:55 That's the six.
46:56 That's the king.
46:57 And that's it.
47:02 The first time I saw Ray do this trick, the other cheek, I was really flabbergasted.
47:06 I just couldn't believe that he'd whirl around three cards in the air and they'd turn face up one at a time.
47:11 And now that I know how he does it, and you're about to find out how he does it,
47:14 you'll be even more amazed that any human could accomplish this through fingers alone.
47:21 It's unbelievable.
47:22 Do it, Ray.
47:24 Yes, sir.
47:26 You need to get a break above three cards from the face of the deck.
47:30 It doesn't matter what they are.
47:34 I usually do it when I'm spreading the cards to find three cards from the middle.
47:37 Just out-jog any three cards from the middle at different spots.
47:43 Keep them spread.
47:44 Now you're going to do Vernon's strip-out addition.
47:48 The way you do that is as you strip out the three cards that you out-jogged,
47:52 you add the three cards below your break.
47:56 The three cards you strip out hide the cards you added.
48:01 Much better than that.
48:05 Keep the break between the three added cards and the three cards you stripped out.
48:10 And now you're going to have to do a half-pass as you turn the cards face down.
48:14 I prefer a half-pass I found in Ernie Eric's book.
48:18 Bring your right hand underneath the outer right corner of the packet
48:21 so the lower packet rests on the fork of your fourth and third fingers.
48:26 With your left little finger, pull in toward your body.
48:29 That causes the lower packet to pivot down.
48:32 While it's resting on your right hand,
48:34 shift your left fourth finger to the outside of the packet.
48:39 You're holding the packet between your right hand and your left hand.
48:43 This gives your left thumb and first finger freedom
48:46 to move the upper packet over and on top of the face-up lower packet,
48:51 completing the half-pass.
48:53 Now you're going to spread the top two cards of the packet.
48:56 You really have six cards, three face down on top of three face up.
48:59 Spread the top two cards of the face-down packet,
49:02 and underneath you need to spread the face-up cards to the right also.
49:06 I use a double buckle to do this.
49:08 From underneath, the left second finger buckles in the bottom two cards,
49:14 and then when you can feel all three surfaces, spreads to the right.
49:19 So what you have is a spread on top of a spread.
49:22 Three face down cards spread above three face up cards.
49:29 To make them seem to turn face up, you wave your hand around in a circle.
49:34 Your left first finger reaches out to the middle of the left long side of the packet,
49:39 and pulls up on the outer card and inward until you feel it touch the second card from the top.
49:48 That's the first card turning face up.
49:50 Stop moving your hand. Give the audience a chance to relax and enjoy it.
49:53 Do the same thing. Pull up on two cards this time.
49:56 The reason why you're pulling up is so the tip of your first finger clears the face-up card right below it.
50:01 Push in until all the face-down cards are square.
50:04 Now the audience sees two face-up cards.
50:07 For the last card, you need to do a Vernon One-Hand Top Palm from Further Inner Secrets of Magic.
50:12 To prepare for this move, position your right fourth finger at the outer right corner of the spread.
50:18 Then do the same move with your left first finger.
50:20 This time pull up and in.
50:23 The face-down cards will pivot on the outer right corner against your right fourth finger
50:28 until the cards end up in palm.
50:30 Readjust to grip the cards comfortably in palm,
50:34 and you now have three face-up cards showing towards your audience.
50:39 Now you can just drop them into your left hand because the trick is over
50:43 and relax your right hand and unload when you can.
50:47 [applause]
50:50 What are you going to say now?
50:51 The first trick I ever learned, my uncle gave it to me.
50:53 He gave me a jack. He gave me an empty box.
50:56 A jack in the box.
50:57 Yes, a jack in the box. He was a very cheap man. I was a stupid kid.
51:01 And he said, "You supply your own music, kid." So here we go.
51:04 [humming]
51:09 Pop!
51:10 [humming]
51:12 Wow!
51:14 [applause]
51:17 In the early '80s I published a trick by Larry Jennings called Astro Card and Richard's Almanac.
51:22 It was the vanish of a single card from the top of a card case and it reappeared inside the card case.
51:27 It used a rather large slit.
51:30 Ray's trick, on the other hand, is absolutely impromptu, can be done at any time with any card case.
51:36 Ray, please show us how it's done.
51:37 Sure. This is the result of some collaboration between me and my friend Bill Goodwin.
51:43 You need an empty card case and a jack.
51:46 Hold the card case thumb-notched down in your left hand, dealing grip.
51:50 First finger's on the front, the other three fingers are on the side.
51:53 Your thumb is parallel with the left long side.
51:55 Set the jack on top of the case face up, but notice the jack's a little off to the right.
51:59 That's going to give you some leverage for the Cardini color change.
52:02 The way you do the Cardini color change is your right hand comes over to snap the card,
52:06 supposedly to snap the card into the case.
52:08 But what really happens is your left fingers pull up at the last second,
52:12 moving the card out of the way of your striking left finger.
52:16 Now the right hand is blocking the audience's view of this card from the front.
52:20 You're going to apparently turn the case over to show the other side.
52:23 Just grab the outer corners of the case with your right second finger and thumb,
52:27 pivot it right on top of the card so the audience gets to see the other side.
52:32 Put the case in dealing grip back into your left hand.
52:35 To produce the card, you need to use a move devised by Matt Shulian to produce a card from a card case.
52:40 It was later improved by Ed Marlow to make it look a little more realistic.
52:44 Open the flap with your right hand and keep the back of your right hand in front.
52:50 This blocks the audience's view so they cannot see that the case is empty.
52:53 Insert your left thumb into the case, have your right fingers underneath the case,
52:59 gripping the selected card.
53:02 Slide the card out from, apparently from within the case, but you're really sliding it out from underneath.
53:07 Now from the top, it looks like this.
53:12 The case flap moves a little bit, giving the impression that it came right from within the case.
53:17 Turn the card over, show the audience that the card is the same one you snapped,
53:21 and the trick is over. It's very quick and it's also very effective.
53:25 But it needs to be done more or less one-on-one.
53:29 [applause]
53:32 Thank you very much.
53:34 Let's use these four cards.
53:36 Oh, what a coincidence. They happen to be kings.
53:39 Just what I need to prove a scientific fact.
53:41 It's scientifically proven that if you have four kings, you have three spaces in between them.
53:46 We can prove this just by counting the cards out.
53:48 There's three empty spaces between the kings.
53:51 If you wave the kings over the deck, that causes three cards to jump out from the deck.
53:54 Now I happen to need the four aces.
53:56 Unfortunately, there's only three spaces, so I only get three aces.
54:00 It's just the way life is.
54:02 Now if I want to get the fourth ace, there's only three spaces,
54:05 so I need to squeeze the kings and make them into the last ace.
54:10 [applause]
54:12 Thank you.
54:14 Ray, your version of the collectors is one of the better ones because it's very visual, it's very quick,
54:20 and as usual, you've managed to take something that seems over-familiar and really give it that Cosby touch.
54:27 So show us how you do out of space.
54:29 Okay. The Cosby touch.
54:32 You need a setup of eight cards, four aces and four kings.
54:38 The aces have to have one face up, three face down.
54:43 The kings go on top of that.
54:45 You have to have like colors on the outside, so I'm going to use blacks on the outside for this example.
54:51 You need to steal the aces below those four kings.
54:55 Obtain a break below the face up ace, show the kings off in a spread,
55:01 take everything above the break away with your right hand.
55:04 You're going to square the cards on the table with both hands.
55:08 As you do, insert your left fourth finger between the bottom most king and the one above it.
55:16 Close the spread. This is like a wedge break.
55:21 Tap the cards and then hold them in a tent position with your left thumb.
55:27 Your right hand's going to come over and take away all four cards,
55:32 and as it does, the little finger pulls down, taking away three of the kings that were below it onto the deck.
55:38 Set those aside.
55:40 Now you have five cards.
55:43 Three aces face up, an ace face down on top, and a king on the face.
55:48 Flash the king on the face, and you're going to count the cards face down into your left hand, showing each one.
55:56 The first thing you need to do is a four card push off with your right thumb.
56:03 You're pushing off every card but the last card. Take it in your left hand.
56:07 Next you're going to switch the right hand card for all the cards above the bottom ace.
56:13 I buckle the bottom ace and switch.
56:17 The next one, you switch all the cards in your right hand for the two cards in your left hand.
56:24 You can finally set your right hand double on top of your left hand cards.
56:28 No break needs to be kept.
56:30 The order of the cards at this point is you have a face down king and the rest are aces.
56:36 The third card in being another face down ace.
56:40 Now you're going to do a count that was devised between me and Bill Goodwin to make the aces appear between the face down kings.
56:46 Buckle the bottom card of the deck deeply so your right hand can pinch all the other cards.
56:53 You're taking away the top and bottom card by pressing down with your left thumb.
56:57 That's a double.
56:59 Take away a single ace.
57:01 Push off the top card of your right hand half.
57:04 As you take it square with the face down card, steal both cards with your right fingers.
57:14 Below the remaining face up ace.
57:17 So now you have three cards in your right hand.
57:19 Take one face up ace.
57:21 Take a face down card, stealing the end jogged face down card below the right hand cards.
57:26 Take a face up ace and set the real face down card there.
57:29 You've just counted seven cards.
57:31 Three face up cards between supposedly four face down kings.
57:35 Strip them out and lay them out on the table in a row.
57:38 As you do, flash the face of the left hand packet.
57:41 This king reinforces the fact that you have four face up kings.
57:45 In reality you have just one king and one ace.
57:48 Now you're going to do a count devised by Brother John Hammond.
57:52 Peel off the top card into your left hand.
57:55 Then switch the cards as you peel off the second card.
57:59 The third you switch and the fourth you really take into your left hand.
58:03 You've just counted two cards as if they were four.
58:05 Make a magic motion like you're squeezing the cards together.
58:09 Now you're going to do a double lift and snap it.
58:12 The way I do it is I grab the inner left and outer right corners between my right thumb and second finger.
58:17 My left little finger pivots the cards around on the inner right corner.
58:22 So it faces them.
58:24 Keep pivoting it so now the back is toward the audience.
58:26 Your right first finger bends the card, snapping it off your right second finger, revealing the last ace.
58:34 Use that ace to scoop up the other three.
58:37 And you've managed to change the four kings into four aces.
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