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00:00 The International Magician Society's Magic Academy
00:03 Course of Magic Volume 2, Basic Card Tricks.
00:07 And now, please welcome your instructor, Harry Lorraine.
00:11 It's just a little show-off thing I used to do when I was very young.
00:20 I don't do it anymore. I can't do it anymore.
00:22 But it's nice to see you again,
00:24 and I'm assuming that you practiced some of the sleights
00:26 that I taught you the first time we met.
00:29 If you have, what I'd like to do now is do some tricks,
00:32 some routines utilizing just those sleights.
00:35 For example, if you really want to impress your friends,
00:38 you're shuffling your deck, you can say,
00:40 "You know, after years of practice,
00:42 I've learned to be able to cut to an ace anytime I want."
00:45 And it's very important for you to see that,
00:47 look how messy I'm shuffling these cards.
00:49 I mean, they are really being shuffled. Look at this.
00:52 And anytime I want to, after years of practice,
00:55 I've learned to cut to an ace.
00:57 Now, you know, it gets progressively more difficult
01:00 because there are only two aces left now,
01:02 so it's a little harder.
01:03 I have to shuffle just a little more before I can get it.
01:06 But let's see. Again, after years of practice,
01:08 I should be able to cut to an ace. There's three of them.
01:11 Now, I know what you're thinking.
01:12 You're thinking that somehow I know where the aces are.
01:15 I really don't.
01:16 At this moment, I don't know where they are.
01:17 There are none on top. There are none on bottom.
01:20 But I have a gentleman sitting here.
01:21 Joe, if you'd help me out, I'd like you to--
01:23 Don't do it yet. Here's what I'd like you to do.
01:25 I'd like you to reach in, pull out any card,
01:28 turn it face up, and lay it right here,
01:30 and any card you pull out and turn face up
01:33 will immediately find the last ace.
01:35 So anytime you're ready, reach in, pull out any card,
01:37 turn it face up, lay it on the table so everybody can see it.
01:40 That's a king. Look. K-I-N-G. King.
01:44 I don't know how you did that. You fooled the heck out of me.
01:47 I think that's a heck of a trick.
01:49 I shouldn't have fooled you.
01:50 I was using moves that I taught you, the jog shuffle.
01:53 That's all. I threw in one thing at the end,
01:55 which I'm a little sorry I've committed myself to give away,
01:58 but I have, so I'll teach it to you.
02:00 But let me show you the entire trick.
02:02 I'll teach you how to do that entire trick right now.
02:04 Okay. First secret, of course,
02:07 is that you have to have the aces on top of the deck.
02:09 Now, all it is is a control.
02:11 I'm showing you one of the simplest ways,
02:13 the easiest way to do a cutting to the aces demonstration
02:16 to make your friends think--
02:18 You want your friends to say,
02:19 "Wow, I'd hate to play cards with you."
02:21 That's the reaction you want, okay?
02:23 Look, you get the four aces on top of the deck.
02:26 I'll give you a little hint.
02:27 The best way to do that is do any trick preceding this trick,
02:30 and as you're finding a selected card,
02:32 get the four aces to the top then,
02:34 so you're all ready to do this trick.
02:36 Now, here we go.
02:37 You say, "After years of practice,
02:39 "now all I'm doing is that in-jog shuffle
02:41 "that I already taught you,
02:43 "keeping the top block of cards intact."
02:46 So let's start from the beginning.
02:48 Jog shuffle.
02:49 Now, look, there's the jog.
02:51 When I put them down, I put them down sloppily
02:53 so that even if people look from the side,
02:56 these cards beveled back are covering my jog.
02:58 If I made that very neat, it would look like that.
03:01 You don't want that to be obvious.
03:03 So let me go back to the beginning
03:05 and show you exactly how I do it.
03:06 Remember, the four aces are on top.
03:08 I do the jog shuffle, and I do it sloppily,
03:11 so when I lay it down, there's no--
03:12 the deck down, there's nothing to see.
03:14 Now, here's the way I cut.
03:16 I reach in to that in-jog card.
03:18 Can you see that?
03:19 I'm gonna tilt it a little more toward you
03:21 so you can see it,
03:22 and I lift at the jog very carefully,
03:26 put that over there, and show the ace I cut to.
03:29 Now, this half, this is where the aces are,
03:31 always goes back on top.
03:33 Obviously, you don't want to lose the aces.
03:35 Now I repeat exactly the same thing.
03:38 I just did a jog.
03:39 I'm not finishing the jog.
03:40 It's called an incomplete jog shuffle.
03:42 I lay them down a little sloppily.
03:45 My thumb lifts at the in-jog card,
03:48 moves them over, and show dramatically
03:50 that you've cut to another ace.
03:52 This is where the aces are, goes back on top.
03:56 This time, to make it look a little different,
03:58 I do the same thing, except I do it twice.
04:00 Look, I talk while I'm doing it.
04:02 You don't want to just shuffle.
04:04 You want to talk while you're shuffling,
04:05 and I say, you know, it gets progressively more difficult
04:08 because there are only two aces left.
04:10 Meanwhile, I've done one jog complete.
04:12 Now I do an incomplete, leaving the jog,
04:14 drop the cards, and again, cut exactly the same move
04:18 each time I've cut to another ace.
04:20 Now, there's one ace left.
04:22 In this case, the ace of spades.
04:24 Doesn't matter, whichever is left is on top.
04:26 The next time I'm still talking,
04:28 I look at my spectators and I say,
04:30 you don't know where the aces are.
04:32 The last ace is.
04:33 I don't know where it is.
04:34 As I talk, I do the other thing I taught you,
04:37 which is to place the ace to a certain position
04:40 from the top of the deck.
04:41 In this case, I place it fourth,
04:43 which means I run one, two, three cards,
04:46 in jog the next, shuffle off,
04:48 form a break at the in jog, shuffle to the break,
04:51 just the way I taught you the first time we met.
04:53 All I've done here is I've placed the last ace
04:57 fourth from top.
04:59 Now, my pattern to my spectator is,
05:02 I don't know where the aces are.
05:03 I don't think you know where they are.
05:04 Look, there are none on top.
05:06 I can show three cards here.
05:08 Don't show the fourth.
05:09 You'll be showing an ace.
05:10 So you do that very nonchalantly.
05:12 I don't know where the aces are.
05:13 There are none on top.
05:14 There are none on bottom.
05:15 You can spread a few cards on bottom
05:17 to show there are no aces.
05:18 Now, I turn to my spectator.
05:21 Now, this is the build up,
05:22 and build this up as much as you like.
05:25 Usually, when I'm working for laymen,
05:26 I'm pounding the table at this point.
05:28 I say, "I want you to reach into the deck,
05:30 pull out any card, and turn it face up,
05:33 and whatever card you pull out
05:35 will immediately find the last ace."
05:38 Do you understand what I'm saying?
05:39 Any card you pull out will find the last,
05:41 and I really build that up.
05:43 Now, Joe, help me out.
05:44 Reach in, turn over any card right there,
05:46 and let me show you what I do.
05:48 Turn it face up. That's a seven.
05:49 Look, S-E-V--I'm sorry.
05:51 Put it here. S-E-V-E-N.
05:54 Seven, and you found the last ace.
05:56 I don't know how you did that.
05:57 Now, let me show you what's happening here.
05:59 Let me put the ace back to fourth position.
06:02 It's fourth.
06:03 I've done the whole thing about
06:04 I don't know where the aces are.
06:06 Now, I have the spectator turn over any card.
06:08 I want to get a different card.
06:10 All right, there's a nine.
06:11 Look, nine--N-I-N-E. Nine.
06:15 Let me do it again. We've used the nine.
06:17 Let's assume they pull out a two.
06:21 All right, they pull out a two.
06:22 I say, "That's a two."
06:23 T-W-O, two.
06:25 How you find that ace, I don't know.
06:27 How you found it, I don't know.
06:29 The whole point of this is
06:30 no matter which card they pull out,
06:32 I'm going to make it fall or find that last ace.
06:36 That's the secret,
06:37 and another secret is never to hesitate.
06:40 Now, let me explain this to you.
06:41 We're going for the fourth card from the top.
06:44 Any card that's pulled out--
06:45 I'm going to go right from the beginning.
06:46 They can't pull an ace.
06:48 If they pull a two, I've shown you that.
06:49 T-W-O, and you turn over the next card.
06:53 If they take a six, S-I-X,
06:56 and you show the next card.
06:57 If they take a ten, T-E-N,
07:00 and you show the next card.
07:01 Those are the three cards in the deck.
07:03 Ace, six, ten.
07:04 That's spelled with three letters.
07:05 So if any one of those, spell it, three letters,
07:08 show the next card without hesitation.
07:10 Then there are the cards that spell with four letters,
07:12 but it's even better than that.
07:14 If the man, your spectator,
07:16 happens to select a four, that's right on.
07:19 You're in this position.
07:20 He turns over a four.
07:21 You say, "That's a four.
07:22 One, two, three, four.
07:24 You did it. I don't know how you did it.
07:25 You fooled the heck out of me."
07:26 That's the way I usually end it, okay?
07:28 But let's assume that he selects a five.
07:32 What do you do?
07:33 Well, it's very simple.
07:34 Look, I spread. He pulls out a five.
07:37 I put the five on the deck.
07:39 One, two, three, four, five.
07:42 You did it. I don't know how you did it.
07:43 You fooled the heck out of me.
07:44 In other words, no matter what's selected,
07:46 you can make it come out to the fourth from the top card.
07:49 I've explained six already.
07:51 Seven spells with five letters.
07:53 You do the same thing.
07:54 So if a seven, if I could find one, is selected,
07:57 there it is.
07:58 He pulls out a seven.
07:59 I say, "Whoops, I went out of frame.
08:01 Forgive me."
08:02 Here's the seven. S-E-V-E-N.
08:05 Seven. I don't know how you did it, but you did.
08:07 If he pulls a queen, same thing.
08:09 It spells with five letters.
08:11 If he pulls an eight, same thing.
08:13 It spells with five letters.
08:14 So in each of those cases,
08:15 you put that particular card on the deck
08:18 and use it as part of your count.
08:19 If it was an eight, E-I-G-H-T.
08:23 If that were a queen on the deck, Q-U-E-E-N.
08:27 In each case saying, "You found it.
08:29 I don't know how you did. You fooled the heck out of me."
08:31 So now we've done, now jacks, kings, nines,
08:34 all spelled with four letters.
08:36 So that if a king is selected, king, K-I-N-G.
08:40 Jack, same thing.
08:41 A nine, N-I-N-E, four letters.
08:44 In other words, there is no card in the deck
08:47 that you can't use to get to the ace.
08:49 And the secret is not to hesitate.
08:52 Let me lock that in for you,
08:54 and then we can get to the next trick.
08:55 Look, I'll imitate the wrong way to do it.
08:59 If somebody, you do this build up,
09:01 about any card you pull out, you turn it face up,
09:03 will instantly, instantly find another ace.
09:06 And then you say, "Would you please pull out a card?"
09:08 If you do this, this is the wrong way, watch.
09:14 That's wrong.
09:15 You don't want any hesitation.
09:17 You don't want to count on your fingers.
09:18 The whole secret here is to immediately go into it
09:22 as if that's exactly what you planned
09:24 and exactly that you knew he would select that card.
09:27 So the way it looks, after the build up,
09:29 he pulls out any card, I say, "That's a six, S-I-X, six."
09:34 You fool the heck out of me.
09:36 For this next trick, I must stand up.
09:38 It's a heck of a trick, I think, and I want you to see it.
09:41 Okay, remember, I always work with shuffled, borrowed decks.
09:45 And this is a shuffled, assumed, borrowed deck,
09:47 'cause it's a regular deck of cards.
09:48 Joe, help me out.
09:49 I want you to take any card, really, any card you like,
09:51 look at it.
09:53 If you want to, you can show it to camera, I assume.
09:55 I don't know how we're doing this, but I won't look, obviously.
09:58 Now, if we've got a shot at a card,
09:59 would you put it into the center of the deck?
10:01 Now, most magicians put their fingers into cards.
10:03 I don't want to do that.
10:04 I really don't want to know where or what your card is.
10:07 I really want to lose your card.
10:08 But sometimes, Joe, I get very lucky.
10:10 I really do.
10:11 For example, I sometimes get your card to the top of the deck.
10:14 Is that yours, the six of clubs?
10:16 No.
10:17 It isn't?
10:18 No.
10:19 Are you telling me the--
10:20 Absolutely.
10:21 Am I close at all?
10:22 No.
10:23 You mean I'm not even close?
10:24 No, the six of clubs.
10:25 Well, here I wanted to really impress you and the people watching.
10:29 All right, if it's not the six of clubs, I'm in trouble.
10:31 Seriously, what was your card?
10:32 The queen of diamonds.
10:33 Queen of diamonds.
10:34 I was way off.
10:35 Take a look at the six of clubs, would you?
10:37 Would you show that to camera?
10:38 Now, you know what's interesting to me, that that is your card now.
10:41 What's interesting to me is that you thought you saw the six of clubs, was it?
10:45 You thought you saw, because look, that's impossible.
10:48 There's no way you could have seen the six of clubs
10:50 because that was in my pocket all the time.
10:54 I think that's a heck of a trick, and I don't know how it looked on television.
10:57 I really don't.
10:58 I know the kind of reaction I get when I'm doing it for a live audience.
11:02 That's not to say you're not live, Joe,
11:04 but the way I'm doing it for an audience not on television.
11:07 I'll tell you why it's a terrific trick.
11:09 Incidentally, in a book I wrote 100 years ago, I called it Strange Voyage.
11:13 That was the name of the trick,
11:15 and it's probably one of the first sleight-of-hand card tricks I ever learned.
11:19 I've been doing it for over 40 years,
11:21 because I know the kind of reaction it gets from laymen.
11:24 They scream when their card changes,
11:26 and there's a second scream when you pull it out of their pocket.
11:29 And the reason it's important for me to show it to you during this session
11:33 is that it uses only the three basics that I taught you the last time we spoke.
11:39 Only those three basics.
11:41 So I'm going to teach you how to do the trick, how to utilize those basics, right now.
11:45 What we used was the control, the double lift, and a palm.
11:50 In that order. That's all.
11:52 That's all this trick amounts to, and that's all that it entails.
11:55 All the rest is showmanship and presentation.
11:58 I don't really have the time to go into showmanship and presentation on these tapes,
12:01 but you know, you do have to present the trick.
12:03 You do have to know what you're talking about.
12:05 That's maybe for a future tape.
12:08 Right now I'm showing you the mechanics, okay?
12:10 The first thing you do is you have a card selected.
12:13 Now I've got to pause here and tell you that ordinarily I would force a card.
12:17 We have not gotten into forces here.
12:19 So that means to make the person take the card you want them to take,
12:22 and you know it before you start.
12:24 I have not taught you that.
12:25 Let's go to the control, which is more important.
12:27 So I have the spectator select a card.
12:29 In this case it's the five of diamonds.
12:31 I have him remember the card, make sure he remembers it.
12:34 Another tip.
12:35 Whenever you're doing a trick for more than one person,
12:37 whoever selects the card, make sure he or she shows it to at least one other person.
12:42 Because after all your work, if you say, "What's your card?" and he forgets it,
12:45 you've worked for nothing.
12:46 I don't like to work for nothing, okay?
12:48 The selected card is put into the deck.
12:50 Do the control I taught you during our first session.
12:54 I've just got it to the rear of the deck.
12:56 I'm doing the slip shuffle, keeping it there, that five of diamonds.
12:59 Now I'm doing a regular jog shuffle.
13:01 The spectator sees the card is lost.
13:04 What I left out before is I say to the spectator,
13:07 "I don't know where your card is.
13:08 You can see it's lost in the deck."
13:10 But sometimes I get lucky.
13:12 I can cut your card right to the top.
13:14 I left out the false cut.
13:15 Stick it in if you want to.
13:17 It's not important.
13:18 I taught that to you during the first tape.
13:20 Remember, the cut to the table is a false cut.
13:22 I now have the five of diamonds on top.
13:24 The rest of the trick should be obvious.
13:26 It's self-working.
13:27 I say, "Sometimes I get lucky.
13:29 I can cut your card right to the top.
13:31 Tell me honestly, is this your card?
13:33 Just say yes or no."
13:35 The reason I use that pattern is I don't want him to blurt out the name of his card.
13:38 It would take away from the ending.
13:40 So I say, "Just tell me yes or no.
13:42 Is this your card?"
13:43 Now I've done a double lift here.
13:45 Of course he's going to say, "No, it can't be his card
13:47 because his card is the rear card of the double."
13:49 So he says, "No."
13:50 Now the rest is all acting.
13:52 I say, "No, the three of clubs isn't yours."
13:54 And I very openly and casually put it down on the table.
13:58 Now that is already his card.
14:00 The three of clubs that he thinks is there is here.
14:03 That's automatic.
14:04 Now I shuffle.
14:06 This is just subliminal.
14:09 It shows them there's no way I can know where any card is,
14:11 but I'm jog shuffling.
14:13 I'm keeping that three of clubs that the spectators think is here.
14:16 I'm keeping it on top.
14:18 My pattern is, "Are you sure? I'm not even close."
14:20 Well, sometimes people say, "Yes, you're close or you're not close.
14:23 It doesn't matter."
14:24 I say, "Oh, gosh."
14:25 And here I wanted to impress you.
14:27 "Well, look, if it's not the three of clubs--
14:29 Notice I keep mentioning that.
14:30 I want him to know the card that's there.
14:32 I keep mentioning it.
14:33 If it's not the three of clubs, I'm in trouble.
14:35 What was your card?"
14:37 In this case, he or she is going to say the five of diamonds.
14:40 While he's talking, and as I say, "Well, take a look at the three of clubs,"
14:44 this is when I palm the card.
14:47 Natural misdirection.
14:49 It's called misdirection.
14:50 The spectator must look down for that split second to turn this card over.
14:55 As he does that, look at my hands.
14:57 I've palmed the top card.
14:59 I say, "Look at that card.
15:01 Reach over, Joe, and turn that card face up right here."
15:03 There's a gasp.
15:04 While the gasp is going on--
15:06 Do you see what I just did?
15:07 I purposely exposed it.
15:08 I went into the pocket with the palmed card.
15:11 Now I can end up with empty hands.
15:14 There's a gasp here.
15:15 I let this register.
15:17 And now I say, "You know what's interesting?
15:19 What's interesting is that you thought you saw the three of clubs.
15:22 Now that I don't understand.
15:23 There's no way you could have seen the three of clubs
15:25 because I never keep the three of clubs in a deck.
15:29 Look, before I came here, I put that three of clubs here in my pocket."
15:36 I showed you what I think is a marvelous trick before.
15:38 But people who know me and all the books I've written on magic,
15:42 I always have four ace revelations or four ace locations.
15:46 I like four ace tricks.
15:48 I want to do a routine with four aces for you right now.
15:53 I'll do the routine.
15:54 It entails actually two different effects, and then I will teach it to you.
15:58 I want to show you a trick with only the four aces.
16:00 Actually, it's not a trick.
16:01 Excuse me.
16:02 I'm going to stand up now.
16:03 I think you can see it better.
16:04 It's not a trick.
16:05 It's a test.
16:06 The way I usually lead into this, I say, "Well, I've done a few tricks."
16:08 And I say, "I've been testing your eyesight, and you didn't do too well.
16:12 Let me test your observation now.
16:14 Look, every deck of cards has only four aces.
16:16 There are two reds and two blacks.
16:18 No matter how I shuffle these, they're going to have two reds and two blacks, right?
16:21 And there will always be four cards.
16:22 Now this is an observation test.
16:24 On top, I happen to have a black ace right there.
16:27 And what would happen, on bottom, I have another black ace.
16:29 Joe, this is an observation test, and I did it quickly for a reason.
16:32 I want to test your observation.
16:34 Which black ace would you say is on top, spades or clubs?
16:36 Spades.
16:37 Well, I'm sorry.
16:38 You see, you're wrong.
16:39 These are the red aces.
16:40 The black aces are here.
16:41 So I've got to tell you, your observation is not too good.
16:44 Let me go into a different area.
16:46 I'm going to test your memory now.
16:48 Memory is my business, so I think I--you know, I know what I'm talking about.
16:51 Look, I want to use the entire deck for this.
16:53 Here are the four aces.
16:54 The ace of spades will end up the leader ace.
16:56 Now look, I'm using only four aces, and I've just, again, done this quickly.
17:00 I've got 1, 2, 3, 4 aces.
17:03 I doubt if you remember the order of the aces,
17:05 but you should remember that the ace of spades is now on top.
17:08 So there's 1 ace, 2 aces, 3 aces, 4 aces.
17:11 What I want to do now is put a few in different cards, different cards on each ace.
17:15 There's a few there.
17:16 Look, there's a few here, there's a few here, and there's a few here.
17:20 Now, I don't want to fool you here.
17:22 I want you to see exactly what I'm doing.
17:24 I have an ace and a few different cards in each pile, the same here and here and here.
17:28 What I want to do is make these three aces fly into that packet one at a time.
17:33 That gives you three chances to catch me.
17:35 Of course, I'm going to do it by magic, so you have to follow me.
17:37 Follow this.
17:38 Here's the first ace.
17:39 Watch it.
17:40 Here's ace number 1.
17:41 Watch.
17:42 Believe it or not, if I did this correctly, I think that ace number 1 is gone
17:47 because where we had 1 ace at the beginning, we now have 2 aces.
17:51 Well, now we have 2 aces here, an ace here and an ace here.
17:54 Here comes the third ace.
17:55 Watch.
17:56 All you have to do is snap your fingers like that, and believe it or not,
17:59 ace number 3 is gone because where we had 2 aces a moment ago, now we have 3 aces.
18:05 Well, we've got 1 ace left to go.
18:07 This is your last chance to catch me.
18:09 Watch.
18:10 Last ace.
18:11 Little magic gesture here, see?
18:13 And I think if I did this right--no, got to do this the hard way.
18:16 Got to do it again.
18:17 And you'll see that that ace is gone
18:19 because where we had 3 aces or 1 ace at the very beginning,
18:23 we now have 1, 2, 3, 4 aces.
18:27 I think you're watching, but you're not seeing anything.
18:32 Okay, I've shown you what I think is a pretty good routine,
18:35 and I will teach it to you in probably longer than it took to do it.
18:40 It'll take longer to teach, but let's try it.
18:43 The first part, the thing I call the observation test,
18:46 I must know 90 different methods for it,
18:49 but I'm showing you the most direct and probably the simplest or next to the simplest.
18:53 What you have to remember is that you want to alternate the aces as far as color is concerned.
18:58 In other words, red, black, red, black.
19:00 I don't care where the diamonds, hearts, or spades or clubs are.
19:02 Just alternate it.
19:03 When they're alternated, when you're talking, you can cut any way you like.
19:08 As long as they're complete cuts, they will always remain alternating.
19:11 That's automatic.
19:12 They won't change.
19:14 So you want it to look like you're shuffling, that you don't know where any of the aces are, which is true.
19:18 You don't, but they will always stay alternating.
19:20 Now, your pattern is it's an observation test.
19:23 I'm going to use only four cards.
19:25 Now, here's the first thing you have to know.
19:27 I'm going to stand up.
19:28 I think you can see the backs of the cards better.
19:30 As I spread, I've spread for a reason.
19:32 First of all, to show there are only four cards, which there are,
19:35 but to allow me to close and get a break below the top two aces.
19:39 In other words, I'm going to do a double lift,
19:41 but to do a double lift from four cards is a little strange and a little difficult, a little awkward.
19:46 So what I do is I spread and square, and that's it.
19:49 I've got my break, so that when I show the top ace,
19:52 I do exactly the double lift I taught you before, and I say, "There's a black ace."
19:56 Never mention suits.
19:58 Whatever ace shows, say the color.
20:00 If it was red, I'd say there's a red ace, but I say, "There's a black ace."
20:03 I turn it down and deal that to the table.
20:06 Now, I say, "As luck would have it, the ace on the bottom."
20:09 Now, here I'm going to do something different.
20:11 I do a double lift from the bottom of this three-card packet.
20:15 Now, that sounds difficult, but it isn't.
20:17 Watch my hands.
20:18 All I do is pull back the top card.
20:20 Do you see that?
20:22 I'm pulling back with my left thumb.
20:24 The top card goes back, which clears the two cards on the bottom,
20:28 so I can just grab it, see, and flip it over,
20:31 so it looks exactly the same as the first one looked,
20:34 but always turn it so that it's a little this way so you can pick it up easily.
20:38 So the way it looks, look, as luck would have it, there's a black ace on bottom also.
20:44 Now my question is, which black ace?
20:46 I keep saying black.
20:47 These are already the red aces.
20:49 I say, "Which black ace do you think is on top, spades or clubs?"
20:52 And you know your spectator is going to say one or the other, and you say, "No, no, no.
20:55 You're really not observing.
20:57 Those are the reds.
20:58 The black ones are here."
20:59 So that's that effect.
21:01 I'm going to go over it once very quickly now,
21:03 and then we'll go into the rest of the routine.
21:05 The cards are alternated.
21:06 You can cut while you're pattering as long as they're complete cuts.
21:09 I don't care if you cut 3-1-1-3-2-2.
21:11 It doesn't matter.
21:13 And I'm going to use only four cards.
21:15 I square and get that break I told you about, and I say, "Look, on top we happen to have a red ace.
21:21 As luck would have it, on bottom"--there comes the doubler from the bottom--
21:25 "I have the other red ace."
21:28 I've done this quickly for a reason.
21:30 I want to test your observation.
21:31 Which red ace would you say is on top, hearts or diamonds?
21:35 The spectator says either one.
21:36 You say, "No, no, no.
21:37 Your observation is not too good.
21:39 Those are the blacks.
21:40 The red ones are here."
21:42 That's the first step.
21:43 Now you say, "I've tested your eyesight before.
21:46 You didn't do too well.
21:47 I tested your observation just now.
21:49 You did worse.
21:50 Let me test your memory."
21:52 Now, that's my line because memory is my business.
21:54 You don't have to say that.
21:56 Here's the next step, and I'm going to teach you another move here.
21:59 It's called an add-on, and I've simplified it.
22:03 While you're talking about the aces or while your spectators are saying what a great trick that was,
22:08 I want you to separate three cards, three on the top,
22:11 and as you square the deck, get a break under them.
22:14 In other words, I have a break under three cards.
22:16 Make sure that the ace of spades is on the face of the four aces.
22:20 It's at the face, meaning on top.
22:23 You say, "Let me show you something else with the four aces, or let me test your memory."
22:27 Drop the four aces onto the deck face down.
22:30 You're still holding the break,
22:31 which means you now have a break under seven cards.
22:34 You now simply count the aces again.
22:37 Look, I pick up all seven, all the cards up to the break.
22:40 There are seven cards in this hand, and I say, "Look, here's ace number one.
22:44 Simply peel off the top ace.
22:46 Here's ace number two.
22:47 Here's ace number three."
22:49 That leaves a block of four cards in this hand,
22:52 but you tilt it toward the spectator.
22:53 They can't see the extra thickness, and in any case, during performance, you don't pause here,
22:58 and you say, "There's ace number four."
23:00 That's it, and what makes it logical is you say, "And remember that the--
23:04 I know you don't remember the other cards, but you know that that should be the ace of spades,"
23:07 which it really should.
23:09 You put the ace of spades here.
23:11 What you've accomplished here is you've loaded three extra cards under the first ace.
23:16 Now, I think that's important, so I'm going to do it once more,
23:19 but you can always stop tape, rewind, and then really learn it,
23:23 but let me do it once more anyway.
23:24 Here are the aces.
23:25 You've just finished the observation test.
23:27 As you're toying with the deck, get a break on the three cards.
23:30 Make sure the ace of spades is on the face.
23:32 That will be the "leader" ace.
23:35 Drop the four aces on top of the deck square.
23:38 Immediately pick up and say, "I'm using the one, two, three, four aces,
23:43 and the ace of spades is the leader ace."
23:45 I know you don't remember the others, but it doesn't matter.
23:48 So now what you've got here, that is really the ace of spades.
23:51 These are no longer aces.
23:53 Your other aces are on top.
23:55 Now, I don't say I'm going to put three cards on each ace.
23:58 I just say I'm going to put some cards on each ace,
24:01 but I want it to look like three cards.
24:03 Now, the first one, when I'm talking, I say I'm going to put some cards.
24:07 I show three.
24:08 There's really no hesitation.
24:09 As I show this, I push off another card, get a momentary break,
24:13 so that when I square them, I've just stolen an extra card.
24:17 In other words, I really put four cards on the leader ace, on the ace of spades.
24:20 So look, here's the way it looks.
24:22 I'm going to put a few cards on each ace.
24:24 Did you get that?
24:25 Don't make a move out of it.
24:26 Just do it casually and nonchalantly.
24:29 Here's the way it looks.
24:30 I want to put a few cards on each ace and flash an indifferent card.
24:35 That's important.
24:36 A few cards on this ace.
24:37 Now do it legitimately.
24:39 Three cards.
24:40 A few on this ace, a few on this ace, a few on this ace.
24:44 Now, here's the pattern.
24:46 I'm going to stand up.
24:47 I find it easier to work that way.
24:49 You'll want to lock in the fact with a question mark, because it's not a fact,
24:53 that there's an ace and all different cards here.
24:55 So I say, "Remember, I've got an ace and a few indifferent cards in each of these piles."
25:00 Did you see that?
25:01 You can only spread one card here.
25:03 If you spread another card, you're going to show an ace.
25:05 So, again, a casual action.
25:07 I have an ace and a few different cards in each pile.
25:09 The same here, here, and here.
25:11 What I'm going to try to do is make these aces fly into that packet one at a time.
25:16 By magic, of course, but it gives you three chances to catch me.
25:19 Now, a little showmanship and buildup here.
25:22 Pick up the packet up here, or actually any packet you like.
25:26 I usually put one card from top to bottom as if I'm hiding the ace,
25:30 which is all baloney because there's no ace there to begin with.
25:33 Then I do any kind of gesture.
25:34 Snap your fingers, do whatever you want, and then slowly pull out the bottom card,
25:38 because this is supposed to be the ace.
25:40 If I did it right, that ace is gone.
25:42 Let that register.
25:43 Now you pick this up and you say, "Because where I had one ace before, I now have two aces."
25:49 You push off only two cards and stop.
25:53 If you pushed off one more card, they'd see the other aces.
25:56 So you say, "Where I had one ace before, I have two aces now."
26:00 At this point, put this left-hand block of cards that looks like a single card
26:05 between these two cards, not back here, but between.
26:09 Have you got that? Put it between, square, put the packet down face up this time.
26:14 This is all presentation.
26:16 Pick up another packet.
26:17 Let's try it with the third ace.
26:19 I skip the second ace.
26:20 That makes it work out at the end.
26:21 I've just done it with the first ace.
26:23 Now I say, "Let's try it with the third ace."
26:26 And if I did that properly--again, I take the bottom card here--
26:29 if I did it properly or correctly, that ace is gone because where I just had two aces,
26:35 I now have one, two, three aces.
26:38 That's automatic.
26:39 Just push off two cards.
26:40 That's all.
26:41 Don't push off another one because you'll show the next ace.
26:43 So where I had two aces, I now have one, two, three aces.
26:47 Square them exactly the way they are, drop them face down.
26:50 Your patter, last chance, one more ace to go, the last ace.
26:54 Do your gesture and start to put down the aces, again, the one underneath.
26:59 Now you can just show them all.
27:01 What I usually do is I pretend I'm peeking at it, and I say, "Nope, the ace is still there.
27:05 Got to do it the hard way."
27:07 Now it's gone because where I had one ace at the very beginning,
27:12 we now have one, two, three.
27:16 That leaves me with a block here.
27:18 Look, there's the extra card, two cards.
27:20 One, two, three, four aces.
27:22 I drop it onto these cards so it blends, it coalesces,
27:26 and my ending line usually is, "I know you're watching, but you're not seeing anything."
27:32 Well, I hope I taught that to you properly.
27:35 As I said a few times, we live in a great era now, don't we?
27:38 Television and the VCRs.
27:40 You push that button, you can make me say it over and over and over again
27:44 and show it to you over and over and over again so that you can learn it.
27:47 The add-on that I taught you for that last four-ace trick, which is called an ace assembly,
27:52 is based on a Fred Browie secret addition move.
27:56 That's what it's called.
27:57 I simplified it for you.
27:58 I simplified the whole routine.
28:00 There are much more sophisticated ways to do these things.
28:03 The important thing is for you to practice, obviously.
28:06 The more practice you put in, the smoother the trick is going to look.
28:09 Let me tell you something.
28:10 People are not fooled by what they actually see.
28:13 They're fooled by what they think they see.
28:15 It's up to you to make them think they're seeing miracles.
28:18 Remember, learn your slights, get to do them so you can do them without thinking,
28:23 then put them together into the tricks or routines.
28:26 I've showed you a little bit about routining, one trick leading into the other with the last four-ace thing.
28:30 Do it smoothly.
28:31 You're going to fool the heck out of your friends.
28:33 You're going to be the life of the party.
28:35 Hey, who knows?
28:36 We may even meet again someday.
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