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TED ANNEMANN

This trick is a fast favorite of mine, and I have fooled well versed card men with it because of its subtle working points.

The exact effect is as follows: A pack of cards is held face up in the left hand as though for dealing. Taking the two face cards openly with the right hand, you show both faces and backs of them calling particular attention to the fact that one card has a red back, the other a blue. Replacing these face up on the deck again, you slowly turn over the first card showing its blue back, and then drop it face up on the floor. The next card is shown to have a red back, and this likewise is dropped face up on the floor a few feet from the first card. Stressing once again which has a blue back and which has a red back, any spectator is allowed to turn the two cards face down. When he does so, the color of the backs of the two cards has changed. The one that was blue backed is now red; the one that was red backed is now blue!

No faked cards are needed for this unique effect, just your own deck and two extra cards from another deck with opposite colored backs. These may be any cards. The subtle part of the effect is that in turning the top card each time to show its back, the face of the card underneath it is seen. After the top card has been dropped onto the floor, the card remaining on the face up deck is the one noticed but a moment before, thus giving the lie to any possibility of you having turned more than one card . . . which is exactly what you do!

Arrange your face up pack as follows, the numbers indicating the position of the cards from the face of the pack.

1. Any red backed card 2. Any blue backed card 3. Any blue backed card

4. A duplicate of No. 2, but with a red back 5. A duplicate of No. 3, but with red back The remainder of the deck is red backed.

At the start, you hold the deck face upwards in your left hand and remove the two face cards with the light hand. Holding these fanned in your right hand you show them stating that you will use these two cards which are (name them.) Now carelessly show the backs of the two cards calling attention to the fact that one is blue backed, the other red. As you display the cards turn them back to front a couple of times so that no one has a chance of

seeing just which card is red, and which is blue backed. Now replace the two cards face up on the face up deck, being careful to close the two card fan so that the cards go back in the same order they originally had.

Now explain that you will show the two cards slowly so there will be no mistake as to which is which. The right thumb, which is at the rear of the pack, lifts up the rear right corner of the top three cards so that the left little finger may hold a break. Calling attention to the face up card showing, the right thumb and fingers lift off the three top cards as one and turn them face down on the face up pack. The three cards are grasped by the lower right corner to turn them over, and they are not placed square with the rest of the pack, but are pulled back about half the length of the deck and left protruding over the rear end. Attention is called to the back of the card, which is blue, whereupon the right hand takes the three cards as one, exactly as before, and turns them face up on the deck once more. This time, however, they are squared even with the deck. Thus you have apparently shown both the face and back of the top card. The left thumb now slides the top (face) card about half way over the right side of the deck where it is taken by the edge with the right fingers and dropped perfectly flatwise onto the floor. You will find that it will not turn over as it descends, but will drop straight to the floor from any height. The card now face up on the deck will be seen to be the one formerly occupying that position, although you do not call attention to it specifically. Unknown to the spectators, however, it is actually the duplicate of the one originally seen.

As matters now stand, you have placed a blue backed card on the floor in a face up position. Now call attention to the new card on the face of the deck, show its back to be red by using the triple lift, then turn it face up again on the deck, exactly as you did with the first card, and finally drop this one on the floor in a face up position a few feet to the side of the first card. The card remaining face up on the face of the deck will be noted by everyone to be the card that should be there, thanks to your original set up. And don't think they won't notice it, for they most assuredly will.

It only remains now to have one of the spectators name the back colors of the two face cards on the floor, and then have him turn them over. To everyone's surprise the backs of the cards have changed color!

A point that makes the presentation easy to follow is to use a black spot card for the blue backed one; and a red spot card for the red backed one. This helps the spectators remember the colors, and makes the change really surprising.

(If presenting the effect for an audience which is seated, hold the face up deck in the left hand in approximately the first position of the Charlier Pass, but tilt the hand so that the face of the cards may be seen by everyone. The routine may just as easily be performed with the cards in this position, and the effect can be followed quite readily by the audience.)