Capítulo 3. Modelo Desarrollado
3.1 Perfil Aerodinámico (Airfoil)
HERB. RUNGIE
This trick is one of the most baffling effects with a borrowed pack you will ever do, and when used in combination with the trick described at the end you'll find it a very acceptable addition to your repertoire.
You remove a card, say the Five of Diamonds, from a borrowed deck and place it face up on the table. The deck is now shuffled and cut, as you ask one spectator to mention any number. Suppose he calls out the number "16." You deal sixteen cards, one at a time, into a packet on the table and ask him to look at and remember the top card of the packet dealt. He replaces it on the packet, and you drop the remainder of the deck on top of it. You pick up the deck once more, ask a second spectator to mention another number (we'll suppose he calls out 14,) and you proceed to deal a second packet of fourteen cards. The second spectator looks at the top card of the packet, remembers it, replaces it on top of the packet, and finally the remainder of the deck is dropped on top of the selected card.
The deck is now given a cut, after which you pick it up with one hand and place it behind your back. You also pick up the Five of Diamonds, which has been laying face up on the table, and place it behind your back with your other hand. You say that you will place the Five of Diamonds into the deck so that it will be next to one of the chosen cards. This you do, for when you bring the deck forward and ribbon spread it across the table top, the Five of Diamonds shows face up in the spread. The card to the left of it, when turned face up, proves to be the first card chosen. The Five of Diamonds is removed and the deck is cut again, once or twice. The same procedure is gone through a second time, and you succeed in locating the second card in the same manner. And, as the ads say, everything may now be examined!
This trick is a variation of an Annemann effect wherein the spectator locates a chosen card behind his back by inserting an indicator card into the deck.
However in the trick just described, a subterfuge is employed which makes its working incomprehensible. You actually introduce into the borrowed deck two stranger cards. In this case, two Five of Diamonds. As their backs are never seen, they can be from any odd decks.
During the course of some other tricks you add your two extra Five of Diamonds to the borrowed deck, one going face up on the bottom, the other face down in the middle of the deck. The top card of the deck is now slipped to the bottom and effectively hides the face up Five. Now the regular Five of Diamonds belonging to the deck is brought to the top of the pack, and you're set to perform the double location.
Turn the deck face upwards, fan it, remove the "stranger" Five of Diamonds from the center, and place it, face up, on the table. Dovetail shuffle the deck, keeping the top and bottom cards in place, and finally slip the bottom card to the center during a cut or an overhand shuffle. This leaves the deck with your other Five of Diamonds face up on the bottom, and the deck's regular Five of Diamonds on top.
Ask for the first number. Deal the cards one at a time from the top of the deck into a pile on the table, and have the last one dealt noted and replaced. Drop the rest of the deck on top of the pile which puts your face up Five of Diamonds on top of the first noted card. The above maneuver also brings the deck's Five of Diamonds to the bottom. Have a second number called out and again deal a pile of cards to that number. Have the top card of the pile noted and returned, and then drop the remainder of the deck on top of it. This action brings the deck's Five of Diamonds on top of the second selected card. Now you are all set.
Cut the deck once or twice, being careful not to let the reversed card show during this action. Pick up the face up Five of Diamonds from the table, and place it and the deck behind your back. Explain that you will attempt to place the face up Five of Diamonds next to one of the chosen cards. Actually, however, you slip the Five of Diamonds you are holding into your hip pocket, and then bring the deck forward and ribbon spread it across the top of the table. A face up Five of Diamonds is seen (your duplicate "stranger" card.) Pull out the card to the left of it, and it's the first person's card.
Now take out the face up Five of Diamonds, and ask someone to cut the deck once or twice, completing the cut each time. While this is being done be sure to hold your Five of Diamonds face up and not let it's back be seen, for it's your duplicate card. Pick up the deck with the other hand, place both hands behind your back and say you'll try and locate the second selected card in the same way. As before, slip the duplicate Five of Diamonds you're holding into your hip pocket, and bring the deck forward once again. Ribbon spread it across the table top face down, but this time no revealed card shows up. Apologize, saying that you must have made a mistake and put the Five of Diamonds in upside down. Catch hold of the end card of the spread, and using it as a lever, cause the ribbon of cards to turn themselves over face up. Locate the Five of Diamonds, and next to it will be found the second person's card. The deck may be examined, if anyone is so minded, but you are in the clear for you have gotten away with the two duplicate "Stranger" cards, and no clues are left.
Note by Annemann: This is an excellent trick to do before showing my "one-hand cutting" trick mentioned earlier. Follow up the trick just described by saying that perhaps one of the spectators would like to try it. Have him stand at your left or right, depending
upon which hand you use for making a Charlier pass. He takes a card, notes it and puts it back in the deck. You control it and shuffle it to the top, adding one more card on top of it. Now turn up the top card of the deck saying you'll use it as a "locator" card. Leave it face up on top of the deck, and put your hand with the deck behind the spectator's back. (You are both facing front.) As your hand goes out of sight behind his back, make the Charlier pass which brings the reversed top card, and the selected card under it, to the center of the deck. Have him take the deck in one hand and with his other hand remove the top card, but keep it "face up," and stab it into the center of the deck. This he does, and then brings the deck forward and spreads it face down on the table. The face up "locator" card, which was used apparently, is staring upwards in the middle of the spread, and directly under it to its left is found the selected card. Thus he has supposedly done the trick himself, although actually he only pushed an odd, face down card somewhere into the deck thinking he was pushing in the face up "locator."
Thus by using Mr. Rungie's trick first and following with mine, you have brought an interesting routine to a successful finish with definite audience participation. And best of all, you end up with a wholly unprepared deck!