SELF WORKING CARD MAGIC SERIES # 1

Miracle Card Trick

Spectator shuffles his own deck and hands it to you. Place a small piece of note paper on the deck,
using the latter for a backing, and write the following prediction: "You will think of a card which
will be as far down in the deck as any number of cards you may put in your pocket."
While writing, make a pencil dot on the top card of the pack at one corner. Fold the slip of paper
and lay it aside or give it to someone to hold. Ask the spectator to THINK of anyone card and
remember it while you show the cards to him.
Run cards one at a time from one hand to the other or simply deal them face down on the table,
showing each to him as you do so.
You can turn your head away so there is no chance of your seeing any of the cards.
In running the cards from hand to hand, each successive card goes behind the preceding one. Count
silently. After counting 22 ask if he has thought of one. He surely has by now. Put these
22 back on the deck. This
brings the dotted card 22nd from the top. Hand him the deck.
Turn your back to him. Ask him to remove his card and place it on the table face down. This done,
the dotted card will now be 21st from the top.
With your back still turned and the pack face down on the table in front of the spectator, ask him to
cut off some cards from the top, preferably not more than a dozen or so, and put them in his pocket.
Neither of you know how many at this stage.
He then cuts a few cards from the bottom of the deck and places them aside. Now that cards have
been removed from both top and bottom, there can be no such thing as "key" card, something some
laymen are familiar with.
He now puts his card on top of the deck, then cuts the deck to lose it.
You turn around and take the deck. Fan the cards back uppermost, quickly locating the pencil dot.
Cut the deck so the dotted card becomes the face card of the pack.
Tell him you will show him the cards again and he is to watch for his card but to give you no sign of
any kind when he sees it.
Hold the deck with faces toward him and pass the bottom cards one at a time into the other hand,
beginning with the face card of the deck.
The second card is placed behind that card so that the order of the cards remains unchanged, and so
on,
Until you have silently counted off 21 cards.
Place these 21 on top of the deck. Now ask him to read your prediction.
Now for a most remarkable coincidence and climax.
He removes the cards he has in his pockets and counts them.
For the first time their number is known.
He then counts down that number in the deck, as mentioned in the prediction, and turns up the very
card he thought of!
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Enjoy ! From The Magic Man

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