Bob Farmer - Notes on Bill Nagler $100 ACAAN

NOTES ON BILL NAGLER’S$100 ACAAN By Bob Farmer October 9, 2006 OBJECTIVES: 1.

Spectator can pick any number from 1 to 52.

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Entire deck is face down, so deck can be spread across the table and the card counted to (and this looks better anyway).

SET-UP For the J/K deck, discard the jokers, they are not used. Arrange the red cards into 13 pairs of (JD/KD + JH/KH). Arrange the black cards into 13 pairs of (JC/KC + JS/KS). Place the 26 red cards face down onto the 26 face-down black cards, so all of the cards are face down. As you can see, if a number from 1 to 26 is chosen, you can count to a red court card. If the number is from 27 to 52, you can count to a black court card. The other two decks would be made up of 7/9 cards (deck 2) and the 8/10 cards (deck 3) and arranged the same way, reds on top of blacks. All three decks are in various pockets. At the proper time one of the decks will be removed (this is different than Bill’s original idea) of having a deck out from the beginning, however, my idea can also be used if you want to do that – you simply have to force the appropriate deck). 1.

Have the spectator pick any number from 1 to 52.

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Once you have the number, you know which color you have to force (i.e., 1 to 26, force red, 27 to 52, force black. Do it this way: Tell the spectator to imagine he is holding all the red cards in his left hand and all the black cards in his right hand. Ask him to hand you either half. Interpret his actions to force the color you need. For example, if you want to force red and he hands you the imaginary black cards, tell him he has kept the red cards and you’ll use those. If he hands you the red cards, say you’ll use the red cards.

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In this and each additional step, always emphasize the color you are dealing with so no one forgets the first step. In this step you use Bill Nagler’s elimination procedure force all cards above 6.

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At this point, the spectators can choose 7, 8, 9, 10, J, K or Q of whatever color you forced back in step 2.

You have three decks in your pockets, a J/K deck, an 8/10 deck and a 7/9 deck. This means you have to use Equivoque to have one of those decks chosen. Do that. 5.

No remove the deck from your pocket, uncase it and spread it face down across the table. Up to this point you’ve used a free choice once (the number), a very disguised Equivoque once (the color), and a more bare-faced Equivoque a few times to get to J/K, 8/10 or 7/9. From here on in, you want to really cloud the memory of the spectators as to what has happened and you can do that easily since their actual choices are used. Assume the J/K deck is spread on the table. Ask the spectator if they want a jack or a king (use the color in play). Ask them if they want to change their minds. Assume red is in play. Ask them if they want a diamond or a heart. Ask them if they want to change their minds. Emphasize that they called out a number from 1 to 52 and they could have changed their minds. Now slowly count along the spread of cards and reveal their card. For example, the top two cards are the KH/JH, KD/JD. Any one of these values can be shown for the number 1. You can count 1 and show the first card. You can count 1 and show the next card.

Notes end here for now.

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