{"id":5447,"date":"2021-12-31T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2022-02-17T05:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T05:10:57","slug":"reconstruction-of-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/reconstruction-of-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstrucci\u00f3n de trucos"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things I enjoy is looking at the trailers for tricks, especially impromptu card tricks and reconstructing a method for doing the trick. I recently looked at “Threesome<\/a>” by David Jonathan and thought it was a nice trick. In the description of the trick was the comment of “taking and old principle of magic”, which led me to this solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The principle is the 33 trick which is in Bob Longes book 101 Amazing Card Tricks<\/a>. Another version is at https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/2028<\/a>. The basic premise is that if you place a selected card back in the deck so that it ends up as the 33rd card from the top, then the counting procedure of taking three random cards and dealing on them to make them “total” ten will automatically place the selected card in the correct position so that if you add the totals of the three random cards together (face cards being a value of ten) you can deal that number down to discover the card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the trick or the article above to see the principal in work. What David Jonathan brilliantly did was disguise the principle by removing the totaling of the cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So have a card selected and as you do count eighteen cards off the top as you spread. This is pretty easy to do by pushing off four cards at a time, four times, then two more. (4 times 4 = 16, + 2). Keep a little finger break under the eighteen cards as you square up the deck, as the spectator looks at their card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take the card from the spectator and insert it into the “middle” of the deck but in reality put it back under the break so that it ends up at the nineteenth position. Close up the deck and square it up fairly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now start an overhand shuffle, pulling off a block of cards, about four or five, then do that again, then run cards singly until you have passed the chosen card that was in position nineteen. Then continue to shuffle off normally. This places the card at the 33rd position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a nice quick method, but the method Bob Longe uses is easier to do and probably good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now have any three cards selected from above the 33rd card and placed face up on the table. Instead of dealing cards down to “total” ten, calculate the number of cards in your head. This is very easy to do. For example, if the three cards are two sevens and a four, then the numbers you need to add in your head would be 3+3+6, for a total of twelve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spread off cards from the top of the deck into your right hand, secretly counting twelve cards as you explain to the spectators: “You could have taken cards from anywhere in the deck.” Now with twelve cards in your right hand and the remainder of the deck in your left, turn the hands palm down and point to the three face up cards on the table. Turn the hands back over and place the right hand cards under the left, reassembling the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The method is now done. Have the spectator add the values of the cards on the table and let the spectator deal that number of cards down. The last card dealt will be the spectators card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a case where a little thought and research can save you some money. It is also a good lesson on how to take an easy self-working trick and making it more stream-lined and apparently more impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One note, if the number of cards needed to be moved is small, then I use a cull to bottom to move the cards. For example if you get a total of less than six, then as I spread the cards saying “You took three cards at random”, I cull the number of cards needed to be shifted under the spread and transfer them to the bottom as I close up the spread.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things I enjoy is looking at the trailers for tricks, especially impromptu card tricks and reconstructing a method for doing the trick. I recently looked at “Threesome” by David Jonathan and thought it was a nice trick. In the description of the trick was the comment of “taking and old principle of … <\/p>\n

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