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MAGGC STU!FIF ANO PREPARATION
To achieve this e·. feet, you will only need a normal deck of cards. Take
the spades from ace to 9 in order, the
ace bei ng the fi rst card face down on
top of the sma ll pack.
Do the same for the family of hearts
(Figure 06).
To achieve this effect, I use the very good swap or down dealing, a false
shuffle that allows you to put the cards in the desired order.
Preoaration of the final reveal :
The order I will explain to you is the one I am doing because it keeps a
dynamic in the setup of the cards and also allows to have, in 也is case,
the 7 of spades in 5th position of the deck.
So take the small pack face down in
dealing position. Take the first card （也e
ace of spades), t町n it face up and place it
on the table. For the p山poses of
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understanding, this movement will later
be called ” a down" (figure 07). Do the same for the next C缸d. So you
have the Ace of Spades followed by the 2 of Spades placed face up on
the table. Then take the next two C缸ds face down, switch their position
and tum them faces up on the table. For the purposes ofunderstandin.S」
this movement will later be called ”a swap”(.figures 08).
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HISTORY
To develop the effect I will present to you, I was inspired by the effect
of Bank Night, also known as Just Chance. It is a classic magic effect
where spectators can freely choose all the envelopes except the one
containing money, the others being empty. The last envelope that is not
selected is always the one that contains money.
This classic eff民twas developed by Tom SELLERS under the name
It’s Only Chance in the 1935 Novel Necromancy book.let. Then, Floyd
THAYER was the first to market it in 1936 under the n创ne of Bank
Night.
In the effect 由at I present to you here, the spectator will not choose the
envelope he wants but rather the one he gives to the magician. The other
envelopes will then be randomly given afterw缸ds.
MAGIC STUFF
For this routine you will need
12
classic
enough
size
envelopes,
of
to
a
insert
banknote (or several depending
on your presentation). Prefer
non-transparent envelopes to
mask the banknote’s presence
部 much as possible. Number these envelopes from I to 12σ'igure 18).