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FrenchDrop Inner circle I can name that tune in 1647 Posts |
I found a trick deck in a drawer while cleaning house the other day. It's still complete, but the instructions that came with it are gone, and I don't recall what it was called. It's been so long since I did any magic, it took me a while to even remember how the trick unfolded (and how to do it!). Can anyone tell me its name? It's driving me nuts!
The effect is as follows: You open a card case and pull out a deck that's been cut in half along its width. One half is face up; the other is face down. You spread the face-down half and have a spectator freely choose any card, keeping it face down. You then take the face-up half and do a hindu-shuffle-type thing with it, asking the spectator to drop his chosen face-down half-card onto the face-up deck whenever he wants. He does that, and then you spread the face-up half until you find the face-down half-card. The face-up half-card below it is the one he chose. Now you reveal that the two half-cards he chose match; they're two halves of the same card. On top of that, you have him look in the card case, where he finds the "prediction" you left in there: a whole card that matches the two half-cards he chose. Finally, you spread the face-down half of the deck to show his choice was the only one with a face printed on it...and you spread the face-up half to show his choice was the only one with a back printed on it. Fantastic effect, I think! Darn near self-working, aside from the hindu shuffle; which in this case isn't really even a sleight. But I can't recall what it's called. I've pored through the Tannen's online catalog and haven't found anything quite like it. Anybody remember?
"A great magician has said of his profession that its practitioners '… must pound and rack their brains to make the least learning go in, but quarrelling always comes very naturally to them.'” -- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
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Paul Inner circle A good lecturer at your service! 4409 Posts |
Sounds similar to a few effects that have been marketed (I always preferred Joe Riding's version, Split Decision -which this isn't). Trost had some versions of the plot.
Since you mention Tannen, they marketed Ron Frost's "Split Thought" around 1974, maybe that's it. Trost's last version used some doubles, see "Super Split" in Subtle Card Creations" Vol.3. the effect had been marketed in 1982. The book also refers to some of his other versions. |
FrenchDrop Inner circle I can name that tune in 1647 Posts |
Thanks! I'd been thinking it was by Trost, but maybe it's Ron Frost's "Split Thought." Trost...Frost...they're close.
I didn't get it from Tannen's, but from Pete Peterson's shop in Tulsa, OK, around the mid-1980s...but I assume it could still be "Split Thought." I'll have to see if I can find a description of that one. Thanks again!
"A great magician has said of his profession that its practitioners '… must pound and rack their brains to make the least learning go in, but quarrelling always comes very naturally to them.'” -- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
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FrenchDrop Inner circle I can name that tune in 1647 Posts |
I found it! Searching for Trost's "Super Split" led me to a list of his effects, and I found it there...it was called "Half Wild."
I don't know why it bothered me so much not to remember the name of this trick; just one of those things that gets into your head and won't go away until you find the answer. Heh. Thanks very much for the lead, Paul!
"A great magician has said of his profession that its practitioners '… must pound and rack their brains to make the least learning go in, but quarrelling always comes very naturally to them.'” -- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
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