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simquad New user 65 Posts |
Hello all!
I've been away for a bit working on new material and effects. I was watching a Derren Brown DVD again the other day and saw his "Cut to any card" effect. I looked at this and thought that it may have some value to any audience and started devising methods and workings of it. The basic effect looks like this: The deck is shuffled and cut multiple times once the deck has been shuffled the deck is placed on the table. The performer asks the audience member to name any playing card. This is a completely free choice and the audience member can change his mind as many times as he wants. The card is then told to the performer who instantly cuts to that card. The effect is currently working at a simplistic level and you can truly cut to any card in the deck. The effect needs refinement but I'm not sure the best way to ask for help so I thought I would voice the idea out here. Also the following effects can be accomplished: @ Cut to the four Aces @ A card is selected as is a number, this card is inserted into the deck at this number and the magi cuts straight to the card. Also the beauty is it can be done with any regular deck of playing cards and can be performed virtually impromptu. Ideas? Thoughts? Does this exist already? Regards, Rich |
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Hideo Kato Inner circle Tokyo 5649 Posts |
No way with a normal deck. I can think of Cardini method only. (Or TV trick as usual). Impossible thing is impossible.
Hideo Kato |
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simquad New user 65 Posts |
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No way with a normal deck. I'm sorry sir, you are wrong. |
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simquad New user 65 Posts |
Ah I have just seen the Cardini deck on the internet $50 is a fair price when it can be accomplished a lot cheaper than that for the price of a deck and a bit of time for setup and practice.
My version is able to be done using any* pack of cards and has a pretty high success rate. *Dependant on pack conditions. |
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Diavo Veteran user The District 357 Posts |
How about a memorized stack and some estimation cutting practice? It has been done!
As for shuffling first, ever heard of the Heinstein or Zarrow shuffles? ':-)
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simquad New user 65 Posts |
Diavo,
that is the prinicple I am working off. I have it to a 95% success rate at the current stage. My problem, however, is the stack. To practice I'm currently setting up in CHaSeD and running Ace through King. I need assistance on finding an appropiate, possibly mathematical setup to allow me to work out the location of the card in the deck (number wise) the cutting is then elementary. I described the effect from the audience's point of view, the shuffle is obviouslly of the false/blind variety Thanks for ideas though, Rich |
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ChristopherM Special user UK 844 Posts |
If they're in that new deck order then working out the position is very straight forward.
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simquad New user 65 Posts |
Yes which is the flaw with the effect. I need some recommendations on stacks that are both cylical and possibly mathematical. I've tried a Si Stebbins stack but it hurts my brain to think about the suits etc, I'm still trying the theory with it though.
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Andy the cardician Inner circle A street named after my dad 3362 Posts |
Tamariz stack might be a great solution - but it is more work to memorize it.
Cards never lie
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Hideo Kato Inner circle Tokyo 5649 Posts |
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On 2007-05-30 08:30, simquad wrote: Oh you mean shuffle by the magician. If so, I was wrong of course. Stack + Esitimation has been used in ACAAN. Hideo Kato |
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simquad New user 65 Posts |
Cheers for ideas, I'll have to have a look at that stack.
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Hideo Kato Inner circle Tokyo 5649 Posts |
I meant Memorised Stack. It is ridiculous to use Si Stebbins for that purpose.
Hideo Kato |
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Dennis Loomis 1943 - 2013 2113 Posts |
To my friend Hideo Kato. One needs to be careful when saying: "No Way." I've eaten my words many times when I've seen things I assumed are impossible.
Of course, you said: "No way with a normal deck." But a stacked deck is normal in the sense that it is not made up of gaffed cards. The following is possible, with enough practice, using an ungimmicked deck. A deck is introduced and a spectator (not a stooge) gives it a riffle shuffle. After that the magician also shuffles the cards. Then a spectator names any card (no stooge) and the magician, holding the deck cuts to that card. There is no deck switch, and no restrictions are placed on the card named. There are many people in the world that could do this with a 95 to 99 % accuracy. Mike Close could get *** close to 100%. Dennis Loomis
Itinerant Montebank
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ChristopherM Special user UK 844 Posts |
Yeah, I've always admired the ability to cut any card called-for. Lennart Green can do it fantastically well too.
Sounds like Mnemonica would be a good book for you, simquad. And the works of Simon Aronson. |
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Hideo Kato Inner circle Tokyo 5649 Posts |
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On 2007-05-31 10:23, Dennis Loomis wrote: Thank you for the advice. I will be more careful. In fact, Magic is to challenge to impossibility so that "No Way" must be a taboo word especially for creators. Hideo Kato P.S. I tried to say in careful way. For me, there seems no way to do it with a normal deck shuffled well by a spectator. |
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Dennis Loomis 1943 - 2013 2113 Posts |
To Hideo,
The key is the shuffle that the magician gives the deck after the spectators shuffle. You'll find the answer in the book Tangled Web by Eric Mead. Or, PM me. Dennis Loomis
Itinerant Montebank
<BR>http://www.loomismagic.com |
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Hideo Kato Inner circle Tokyo 5649 Posts |
Thank you Loomis-san for hintting the method. I think I guessed the method. Even if I am wrong, I have though out one method for spectator's Riffle Shuffle and one method for spectator's Over Hand Shuffle. Thank you for the inspiration.
Hideo Kato |
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Dennis Loomis 1943 - 2013 2113 Posts |
Congratulations Hideo... way to go.
Dennis Loomis
Itinerant Montebank
<BR>http://www.loomismagic.com |
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Bill Hallahan Inner circle New Hampshire 3222 Posts |
There's an excellent book on estimation named, Kato on Estimation by Hideo Kato.
Dennis, thanks for the tip about Tangled Web by Eric Mead. I just found a copy and ordered it!
Humans make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to create boredom. Quite astonishing.
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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
When I was a youngster I recall a British magician who visited the Isle of Wight in the UK several times and performed at our local magic club. He specialised in multi phase gambling style demonstrations and then finished with having any card called for.
Any card would be named and springing the cards between his hands he stopped dead mid spring at the named card. He'd could do this over and over again with any card named. I've never heard of or seen anyone else perform this. Time has fogged out the name of this gentleman. He was a man of fairly generous proportion and his name was Les or Len something. He was a member of the Magic Circle in London as I remember he wore their badge; it was the 1st time I'd seen one. Maybe someone here remembers him. Neal
Neal Austin
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