Programa Científico SIUP
Sábado 30 de Octubre/Saturday, October 30 - ZONA HORARIA: UTC/GTM-5
HERBERT MILTON
This exceptional club effect was one of Nate Leipzig's favorites, and should receive careful consideration by all those who want practical and well conceived material.
Two packs of cards are at hand, and a spectator selects one. You remove your pack from its case, hold it with the faces of the cards towards the audience, and openly remove all thirteen of the Club suit. The remainder of the deck is tossed aside, and the thirteen cards are deliberately arranged — with faces still towards the audience — from Ace to King, and with the Ace on the face of the packet. Two wide elastic bands are now used to secure the packet at top and bottom. These are made from three-quarter inch garter elastic and of a size to just fit the packet snugly without binding. The packet, thus secured, is set on your table, or in a glass, with the Ace of Clubs in view and facing the audience. You now take the spectator's pack and give it several genuine shuffles. The spectator runs through the cards himself and removes the Club suit as each card is reached. You take these, show that they are well mixed, and then fan them face down for the spectator to select one. He shows it around for all to see, and then replaces it in the fan of thirteen — but face up. The fan is closed up, and two elastic bands are slipped around it exactly as was done with the first packet. This packet is given to the spectator to hold.
Now you explain the sympathy which exists between the two Club packets and how, because of this, your packet, which was arranged from Ace to King, will invisibly shuffle itself into the same arrangement as the group being held by the spectator. He removes the bands from his packet, and holds the latter squared and with the bottom face card, the Five of Clubs, towards the audience. You pick up the first packet, hold it face towards the spectators, remove the two elastic bands, and the Ace of Clubs, which has been in view throughout, is seen to have become a Five of Clubs. Thus it matches the spectator's first card!
The spectator removes his face card to reveal the next one, you follow suit, and your second card is seen to match his. As the action continues, of a sudden the spectator reveals a card back outwards on the face of his packet — the chosen and reversed card. You show that your next card is also reversed, and both cards are shown to be the same. And the remainder of the cards in both packets match up, card for card, to a successful conclusion.
The preparation consists of making 12 double face cards in the following combinations. All suits are Clubs. (An excellent description of how to make these double face cards will be found on page 409 of Hugard's "Expert Card Technique.")
The combinations:
Ace-Ten Two-Six Three-Four
Four-Three Five-King Six-Two Eight-Jack Nine-Queen Ten-Ace Jack-Eight Queen-Nine King-Five
The 7 of Clubs is left unprepared, but is included with the packet. To set the deck you will use, arrange the double faced cards, including the unprepared 7 of Clubs, before you from Ace to King. Hold the remainder of the deck (minus the Club suit) before you face up, and distribute the thirteen Clubs haphazardly throughout the deck so as to mix them up in value order. Replace this deck in its case.
Now take the deck the spectator will use and from it remove the thirteen Clubs. Set them, from back to face: 5-9-8-A-Q-J-7-2-K-3-4-6-10. In order to save memorizing this arrangement, I mark the backs of these cards so that the entire suit can be set from 1 to 13 quickly. Mark the back of the 5 of Clubs as 1; the 9 of Clubs as 2, etc. Use any simple system of little dots for this. Put these thirteen cards on top of the deck and replace the pack in its case, face down. Have your four elastic bands at hand.
Show the decks and ask a spectator to point to either one. If he selects the double faced faked pack, thank him, lay the other deck aside, and proceed. If he takes the other, say that is his and ask him to hold it for the time being. Remove the cards from your case and hold them with the face of the bottom card towards the audience. Run through them and remove the Club suit. Then openly arrange them from Ace to King, with the Ace on the face of the packet. Now slip two of the elastic bands around the packet, as illustrated. The rear card of this packet facing you is the Five of Clubs, and the wide elastics are used to cover the upper and lower Club spots leaving only the center one showing. Thus the rear card appears to be an Ace of Clubs and matches the face card of the packet.
In putting this packet on the table, just turn it over so that the five spot side is up. That's all! The Ace, which the audience has seen, is apparently still at the face of the packet. (If you use a glass to exhibit your packet, be sure that when the spectator comes up to assist you he cannot get a view of the rear card of the packet. Just keep him well in front of the glass.)
Now ask the spectator for his pack, remove it from its case, and give it two or three genuine riffle shuffles. The 13 arranged Clubs on top of this pack are thus distributed through the pack without disturbing their order. Hand the deck face up to the spectator. He deals through the deck, one at a time, and lays aside each Club as he comes to it. (He can deposit them on your outstretched palm, or onto a small tray or plate.) This packet of 13 Clubs is still in the same order in which you previously stacked it, but simply reversed.
Now ask the spectator to step up beside you, as you show the 13 Clubs well mixed, and then fan them face down for him to select one. Actually you force the 7 of Clubs, which is the center card of the fan. He shows it around, while you hold a break at the point in the fan from where he withdrew it. Have him return the 7 of Clubs to the same spot in the fan — but face up. Now square up the fan, the face card of which is the Five of Clubs, and encircle it with the two remaining elastic bands in the same manner as you secured the first packet. Be open about this, allowing the Five of Clubs on the face of the packet to be seen by the audience, although not making an obvious point of it.
For the finish, the spectator removes the elastic bands from his packet, and holds it with the Five of Clubs full face to the audience. You pick up your packet, remove the elastic bands, and what was originally the Ace of Clubs on the face of your packet is now seen to be the Five of Clubs. The effect continues, are described, until the chosen 7 of Clubs is found reversed in the spectator's packet. As you remove the previous card from the face of your packet—you always let him remove his face card first—a back out card is seen on your packet. This, too, is the 7 of Clubs, and it shows automatically in your packet because it was the only regular card in your set up, and is, of course, the middle card of the original stack. Continue on to the finish with its climax!