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VOL. 16, NO. 1
JAN., 1993
pocalypse ISSUE NO. 181
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[H"| ere' s Jerry' s "revamp" of Ed Mario's Logical Prediction; it's based on a mathematical principle that's credited to Prof. Sydney Lawrence. Jerry's eliminated the pre-lapping & secret loading of force cards. I'll teach the effect, method, performance at same time. You need one joker because this works with a 53card deck. Have pencil & paper handy. Jerry "prepares" as follows. I'll teach his way, but I like to do it (much) faster (& much easier, for m e ) . Learn his way to understand where you have to be. Check my Afterthoughts for the quicker way, then decide which is better for you. Let a spectator shuffle. Take back deck and hand to hand spread, faces toward you. In appearance, you look for 2 specific cards & you can say just that. Upjog the 13th card from face - "Maybe this one - then upjog the 18th card - but upjog it less than the 1st card. Continue to spread/count & upjog the 26th card, but don't release it with your right hand. (Fig. 1; situation facing you at this moment.) "No, I think I'll go with the first two." Lower the 26th card, actually downjogging it a half inch or so. (Fig. 2.) Close spread. One card (26th) is secretly downjogged, two cards (13th, 18th) are openly upjogged (card closer to you a bit higher than the other). Upjogged cards (remember their names) are pushed flush one at a time. Jerry does it this way: Face of deck still toward you. Your right 2nd fingertip contacts outer end of closer-toyou upjogged card as your right thumb contacts the deck s inner end; right 1st finger curled at face. (Fig. 3.) Repeat card's name to yourself so that you'll remember it, then push it down & flush with your 2nd finger. (Fig. 4.) The 2161
bers are different.) Spec. 2 gives his cards back to Spec. 1 who puts the 2 packets together and places them aside. (These 27 cards are out of play, no longer used.)
right thumb makes sure that no other cards are pushed out of the deck's inner end. Extend your right 2nd finger again, memorize the remaining upjogged card, and push it down & flush. Square all but the injogged card.
Turn back to face them as you pick up your half deck (26-card batch). Hold it face down in left-hand dealing position. You're going to instruct the 2 spectators how each is to count to his number & how to reverse the card at that position. In so doing, you secretly reverse the two force or "prediction" cards. Like this: Tell Spec. #1 that you'll give him the cards in a moment. He's to count to his number and turn face up the card that's at that position. "For example, if your number is eight count down - one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight..." Demonstrate as you talk, taking a card at a time, and one under the other, with your right hand. Take them at fingertip position. The 8th card is stepped to the left. (Look at Fig. 6.) And, as your right hand takes that eighth card, your left thumb pushes off and pulls back the next (9th) card so that you can get a left little fingertip break under it. Do not break the rhythm of the patter. "Turn over the eighth card..." Right hand turns palm down (inward) & left thumb clips the 8th (stepped) card flush onto the left-hand cards. (Fig. 7.)
Table the deck face down, maintaining the injog. Bevel a few top cards toward you to conceal that injog. (Fig. 5.) As you do this, say that you want to jot down the names of the two cards so that you won't forget them. Do so (do not say that these are prediction cards). Fold the paper and put it under the cardcase or an ashtray or let a spectator keep it in a pocket. Pick up the deck. The right hand apparently cuts off about half the deck, haphazardly. You really cut off exactly 27 cards. It's easy. The right thumb pushes down on the injogged card so that your right hand can cut off all the cards above it. Hand this batch to Spec. #1. Table the remaining half deck (26 cards) & turn your back to your audience.
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Instruct Spec. 1 to give a group of his cards (more than half, less than half, up to him) to another spectator. (Spec. #2.) Stress the fact that there is no way you could have known ahead of time how many cards each spectator would be holding now. "As a matter of fact, you don't know how many cards you have. Would you each count your cards - silently." Each is to remember the number of cards he holds; it's a number arrived at by pure chance. "I don't want any information about your numbers, I just want to be sure they're different." Have Spec. 2 whisper his # to Spec. 1 who is to confirm that the numbers are, indeed, different. (You realize that they couldn't possibly be the same because you've handed them an odd number of cards. But you want them to be specifically aware of the fact that those num-
10 "...Leave it face up in place, and put everything back together again." As you say this, release the 8th card with your right hand, that hand moves away with the rest of the packet. It turns palm down and rests the face-down packet momentarily on the face-up card, stepped to the right. (Fig. 8 - you are demonstrating the instructions . ) "Do you understand? I want you to count to the card at your number and turn it face up in place. The other counted cards are turned face down onto that face-up card." As you complete the patter you apparently straighten everything '2162'
out, but really do Roy Walton's Royverse: Roll right-hand inward, palm down and insert righthand packet's outer-left corner into the break, under the back-to-back double card. (Fig. 9 stop action.) No pause of course. Slide packet forward and leftward to flush it with double card. (Fig. 10.)
packet and tell him to do as instructed, behind his back. (He works with face-down packet.) He is to say when he's done. When he does, say "Just for good measure, give the packet a complete cut." You realize what's happened here; Spec. 2 has just straightened out the card that Spec. 1 reversed! It's automatic.
Immediately turn your right hand palm down, its cards face down. As you do, get a left little fingertip break under the top card of the left-hand packet. Right-hand cards go on top. Square all. (Position check: You have a break under 9 cards; the 8th card is face up.) Do not forget to "break" that extra card; if you do, the effect won't work.
Tell Spec. 2 to place the half deck onto the table, then to return to his seat. Buildup now. Point out that there's no way in the world that you could have known their #s, & certainly no way you could know which cards were turned face up. "As a matter of fact, you don't know what they are, either - so, spread the cards and we'll all find out." When this is done only the 2 force cards will be exposed face up.
Double cut to break as you turn to Spec. 2. Say, "Then you count to your number and do the same thing. If your number is three, count down one, two, three..." Demonstrate exactly as before. (Get break under 4th card as right hand takes 3rd, etc.) "Turn that third card face up (demonstrate, as in Fig. 7 ) , leave it in place, and put everything together again. All clear? Just count to the card at your number and turn it face up in place." (Demonstrate, doing Royverse, as in Figs. 8 to 10.) This time no break is held as you re-assemble; just slide righthand packet onto left-hand cards, and square. (You've turned the 2nd "prediction" card face up at 3rd position.)
Say their names out loud. Then - "Remember that before the trick began, I jotted down the names of two cards. Please read what I wrote." Let someone unfold the paper & read the names of the 2 cards that are face up in the spread. You've predicted the correct cards! Afterthoughts: It's doubtful that the remembered #s could be as disproportionate as 24 and 3. But it wouldn't matter. The force card you secretly reversed third from top would be turned over by one spectator, then the other spectator would turn it back again! The memory work is easy - the two sets of #s you have to remember - 13 & 18 (the cards you upjog) and 8 and 3 (the #s used to demonstrate) - are reminders of each other.
"It's easy, but I want you each to do it behind your back. Can you handle that?" (Tongue in cheek.) If all are seated, have this done under the table. If not, have Spec. #1 stand next to you, facing audience. (You don't want anyone to see behind his back.) Hand the half deck to him behind his back and the moment it's out of sight, dig your thumb under it and lever it face up. Let him do as instructed; he's to keep the cards behind his back & tell you when he's done. (He's working with face-up cards, unknowingly.)
This is not a "quickie," but as long as my explanation would it is. I, personally, "gedinta" cards & the cutting key) faster.
it isn't quite make you think (set the force Like this:
During a preceding effect I memorize the top, 4th & 9th cards. I can do that in a quick face-up spread of a shuffled deck. (1st & 4th are the prediction cards; 9th is the cutting key.) I double cut 4 cards from bottom to top. Then I do one out faro. It's all part of "really mixing the cards." I casually cut the deck at one card past (deeper than) the original 9th card as I spread faces toward me -- to give me 26 cards. The 27-card portion goes to Spec. 1.
When he does, reach behind him & take the packet with your palm-up right hand, thumb on top. Tell him to sit as, at the same time, you flip the packet face down by closing your fingers. Keep the hand frozen at position so that when he moves away it appears as if the cards have been held motionless and face down.
Jerry's book, Card Craft, is simply excellent.
Have Spec. 2 join you. Openly hand him the
DEAN DILL
SWIRL ASSEMBLY & BACKFIRE You need four half dollars and one shell, just as used in Coin Favorite. You also need to do the sliding "heel clip" as taught in Coin Favorite. I'll re-describe it briefly at the proper time. The shell is nested on one of the coins. Slide the nested coin to outer-left position. Push the other three coins to outerright, inner left and inner right, to form the matrix square. It would be good if you were familiar with Coin Favorite; that would make it easier for you to learn this.
Dean, most often, does this immediately after - as a follow-up to - his Coin Favorite, which ran in the January, 1992 issue of Apocalypse. It's an extremely magical matrix routine using only coins and hands - no cards. The matrix itself is magical, then it moves into an instant "backfire -- that is, all the coins magically and instantly travel back to their original positions. It's so pretty when Dean does it. Describing the action of his hands is the problem for me. That will be pretty much impossible. The hands make smooth circular movements, seemingly hovering just above the tabletop, and the coins move magically from position to position. It's done standing up.
Turn or tilt both hands palm up to show them empty. Turn them down and flex them; i.e., close and open them once or twice as if "getting ready to go." Then turn your hands palm down; cover the outer-left (nested) coin with 2163