Encontrar los ases con Erdnase

Este es un efecto que uso para practicar el sistema Erdnase de selección aleatoria.

EfectoEl artista baraja una baraja de cartas y luego pide al espectador que también lo haga. El artista recupera la baraja y la extiende boca arriba sobre la mesa, comentando que la baraja está bien barajada, como puede ver el espectador.

El artista toma la baraja y la baraja otra vez, barajando las cartas por encima de la cabeza.

Luego, explicando cómo los tramposos siempre necesitan encontrar buenas cartas para su mano, el artista da vuelta las cuatro cartas superiores, revelando los Ases.

Método:  The Aces begin on top of the deck.  Do an in-faro shuffle so the Aces are 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th from the top.  Hand the deck to the spectator and have them to one riffle shuffle.  Do not let them do an overhand shuffle.  After one riffle shuffle the Aces with be distributed among the top cards of the deck.

Ribbon spread the deck face up to show the deck shuffled.  With the cards spread quickly note the location of the aces as a series of four digits.  For example, if the aces were in the 4th, 8th, 13th and 14th locations you would remember the numbers 4, 4, 5 and 1.  Now pick up the deck and do the Erdnase system of culling those cards with an overhand shuffle, briefly:

  • undercut half the deck, injog the first card and shuffle off
  • cut at the injog run 3 and injog the 4th (Ace)
  • run four (an ace is the last card run)
  • Run one card outjogged and then three more (4 total)
  • Throw the remaining cards on top
  • Undercut at the outjog, keeping a break at the injog
  • Run one, at the same time injog the top card of the deck with your left thumb
  • Throw the cards above the break and shuffle off the remaining cards.
  • Undercut at the injog and run one card (Ace)

There is now one ace on top and three on the bottom.  Use either overhand shuffles or cuts to move the three aces from the bottom to the top of the deck.

Post Script

Several people asked how I get all four aces to the top of the deck after the Ernase shuffle.

It’s pretty simple really.  The situation is that you have three aces on the bottom of the deck and one on top.

Starting position of the aces.

I am holding the deck in my right hand to begin an overhand shuffle.  My left thumb pulls one card off (the ace) and as my right hand comes down, and my left thumb pulls off the next block, my left fingers simply press that first ace back to the bottom of the deck where it is grabbed by my right hand.

Start of the last shuffle, pulling the top Ace off.
As the right hand comes down and the left thumb pulls the next block off, the left fingers add the Ace back to the bottom of the deck.

I then just overhand shuffle normally, running the last four cards to bring the aces to the top.

Short video showing last shuffle, with aces face up.

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