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I'll Guess Your Weight by Bob King This is an elaborate version of a similar trick by Nick Trost. This version goes much further than Nick's in that it also involves a selected card. http://members.aol.com/MagicDan/docs/king.html (1 of 4)23-Jan-04 1:13:55 PM

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EFFECT: A spectator selects a card and returns it to the deck. He then cuts off an unknown number of cards. The performer proves that he can cut off any amount by cutting off the exact same number as the spectator. After all cards are replaced, the performer takes a quick look at the faces of the cards. The spectator names his card and the performer not only tells him how far down in the deck it is but cuts off that very number and turns over the selection. METHOD: Make a Breather Crimp and place it at the bottom of the deck. Shuffle 24 cards below it and you are ready. Spread the deck for a selection, making sure that it comes from the top half of the deck. While the card is being shown around, grasp the deck in the right hand from above. Relax the fingers and the bottom half, below the crimp, will fall into the waiting left hand. Have the selection replaced onto the left hand cards and drop the other half on top. Turn your head away and ask the spectator to cut off a packet of cards. Caution him to take less than half the deck. Turn to face him as you explain that since you limited him to half the deck,you will do the same for yourself. Deal the top 26 cards into a pile, reversing their order. Place the rest of the cards aside. You now claim that you didn't have to count off 26 -- you could have simply cut off that exact amount. Ask the spectator to count his cards so that you may prove your claim. As soon as you hear the amount, quickly cut to, and include, the crimp. Count these cards back onto the remainder and you will find that you have the same amount as the spectator. Now, place your cards onto the balance of the deck placed aside earlier. Have the spectator place his cards onto all. The selected card will now be at a position two cards further down in the deck than the number he cut off earlier. If he cut off 16 originally, hiscard will now lie 18 cards down. Also, the crimp will be directly above his card. Spread the deck face up and scan them as though you were memorizing the cards and their positions. Square the deck face down. Ask for the name of the card, ponder its whereabouts and announce its position in the deck. Assuming it is 18 cards down, you would say something like: "Your card is the 18th card from the top, so if I cut off 17 cards....", cut to the crimp, count off the 17 cards to the side and then say:"This is the 18th card down." Turn it over to reaveal the selected card.

MagicDan Notes: I just love everything that Bob King does with a deck of cards, but this trick is one of my favorites. It is easy to do and very powerful to your audience. I'm sure it will become one of your favorites too!! Many thanks to Bob for allowing me to share it with you. Reprinted with permission from: More Magician Foolers by Bob King Copyright © 1990 http://members.aol.com/MagicDan/docs/king.html (2 of 4)23-Jan-04 1:13:55 PM

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IF AT FIRST By Bob King EFFECT: The spectator cuts a shuffled deck into four piles. The top card of each pile is shown by dealing into a packet onto the table. It is obvious that the spectator had failed to cut to the four Aces. Even before this failure has registered, the cards change to Aces and are returned to their piles. The handling is easy, direct and very fast. METHOD: Shuffle a deck, keeping the Aces secretly on top. Have the deck cut into four piles. Pick up the former top portion of the deck (Aces on top). As you explain that, "...any one of these cards could have wound up on the top." spread the packet and when closing, get a break under the top five cards. Push over the top card and jog it diagonally forward to the right. Take the top card of the next pile and place it onto the jogged card. Do the same with the top cards of the remaining two piles. Square these cards onto the packet and maintain a break, now under eight cards. You have simply pointed out the cards cut to. Now, you remark: "Let's see if you have cut to the Aces." While saying this, deal the top card face up by taking it with the fingers above and the thumb below. Turn the hand over and deal the card to the table. As the fingers release the card, they bow the right long side up slightly. Deal the next two cards face up onto the first and overlapping to the left. Now, without missing a beat, the right thumb goes into the break and all five cards are turned over as one. This seemingly single card is used to scoop the others from the right. (Easy, due to the upward bow of the first card.) The cards are tipped over, face down onto the packet in your hand. Immediately, the top Ace is dealt, face up, onto the first tabled pile. Do the same with the next two Aces onto the remaining two piles. The last Ace is turned face up onto the inhand pile and these cards are place in line with the other piles. Do not be squeemish about taking five cards as one. Done briskly and in rhythm, the move goes by. Reprinted with permission from: MAGICIAN FOOLERS by Bob King Copyright ©1989

THE BREATHER CRIMP Although an explaination of this terrific crimp has been written up in several publications, among them: Apocalypse and The Vernon Chronicles, it doesn't seem to be that well known. The way it is used in this book, it must be made up the opposite way it is generally made. This crimp is undetectable and once http://members.aol.com/MagicDan/docs/king.html (3 of 4)23-Jan-04 1:13:55 PM

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put in, is there for the life of the deck - - not intefering with any other usage, but always ready to be utilized.

Take the card you are going to use and hold it face down with the left thumb on the back at the exact center and the tips of the first and second fingers on the face pressing against the thumb. The right fingers take hold of one corner of the card. As the left fingers and thumb press very hard against each other, they are slid to the diagonally opposite corner of the one the right hand is holding. This will put a concave trench in the card from the center to the corner. Re-grasp the center of the card with the left fingers and thumb and take another corner with the right hand. Do the slide to another corner creating another trench in the card. Do this same thing with the remaining two corners. You have created a star shape culminating in a dull point at the center face of the card. With this card in the center of the deck, it can be cut to from the ends or the sides of the deck. It can be cut to with a one-handed cut or it can be visually spotted when holding the cards in Faro Shuffle position. The best part of this crimp, is that it is not visually apparent to the spectator, yet can always be found by casually cutting the cards. One last tip which makes this a devastating weapon. Since it takes only seconds to put the work into the card, try crimping a card in a borrowed deck. When the deck is returned, there is no fear of the crimp ever being discovered. I have even put the crimp in right in front of the audience under the guise of straightening out a bent card.

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