Magician:<\/strong> “My Uncle Ian was a Scot and a die-hard Craps player, but he had a rule: if the dice weren’t breathing, he\u2019d walk away. I want to show you how he\u2019d reset his luck. Before he ever hit the floor, he\u2019d write one ”Lucky Card’ on a cocktail napkin. I’ve written mine right here.” (Place your prediction of the 26th card face down on the table.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Magician:<\/strong> “He\u2019d start with a small bankroll. Cut a small packet of cards\u2014just a handful\u2014and keep it to the side. That\u2019s his stake.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let the spectator hold the cards. Explain the basics of craps to the spectator. If a 7 or 11 comes up on the first roll you win. 2,3 or 12 you lose. Anything else is your “point’<\/p>\n\n\n\n Magician:<\/strong> “Ian steps up to the table. He rolls a six. Deal six cards down.” (They deal 6.)<\/em> Magician:<\/strong> “Then he rolls a seven. Deal seven more on top of those.” (They deal 7.)<\/em> Magician:<\/strong> “In Craps, that\u2019s a ‘Seven Out.’ He lost the round. The house takes the cards\u2014put the whole deck on top of those to sweep the table.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Magician:<\/strong> “Ian’s luck was off. He decided to take his last bit of money\u2014take that packet you cut earlier\u2014and put it back on the table to change the energy. Place it right on top of the deck.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Magician:<\/strong> “He gives the dice one last shake. He rolls Boxcars\u2014a twelve. Deal twelve cards down, one for each point on the dice.” (They deal 12.)<\/em> Magician:<\/strong> “The table groaned. Another ‘crap out.’ Ian realized the dice were cold, so he walked away from the Craps table and headed straight for the High-Stakes Card room.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Magician:<\/strong> “He walks up to the dealer, points at the very next card on top of the deck, and places a massive bet that it\u2019s the one card he\u2019s been looking for all night. Go ahead\u2014pick up that top card and look at it. That\u2019s Ian’s winning card.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Magician:<\/strong> “He looked the dealer in the eye and said, ‘The dice lied, but the cards never do.’ I will bet the rest of my stake that I already knew what that card was. He places the napkin on the table. What card are you holding?” (Spectator names the card.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Magician:<\/strong> “Ian won that bet… and I think I just won mine.” (Flip over the prediction to reveal the match.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is entirely self working. Start with knowing what the card at position 26 is. I use Marlo’s faro check, but any method is good. You could peek at the top card and then overhand shuffle it to 26. Or you could shuffle the deck and then spread it face up to show them mixed, but as you spread them count over to the 26th card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I then do an overhand shuffle keeping the card in place. This is easy to do. Start the shuffle, but as you near the middle of the deck start running single cards. Once past the middle you can switch back to pulling off more than one card. After one shuffle the card you had at 26 is now at 27. Either do another shuffle the same way, or double cut the top card to the bottom, and the card is back at 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The basic methodology is to have a packet less than 13 cards cut off to the side. Then deal 13 cards to the table and place the deck on top of them. In this patter this is accomplished by dealing six cards (the point) and then dealing 7 cards (crapping out). <\/p>\n\n\n\n The spectator puts the cut portion back on top of the deck and you deal again. The thirteen card down is the card you had at 26. So dealing 12 cards (boxcars) leaves the card on top of the deck, ready to match your prediction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another patter could be centered around the number 13, normally considered unlucky. Have the spectator cut off a small packet and hold it. Deal 13 “unlucky” cards, burning them. Have the spectator replace the cut off portion. Deal another 13 cards to the table. Have the spectator look at the last card dealt, and then drop the deck on top. Cut the deck and shuffle. They looked at the original 26th card, so you can finish any way you want. For example, say “sometimes 13 isn’t unlucky, it is magical. Think of the card you looked at. Concentrate on it.” Then read their mind.o<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another presentation is similar to Larry Jennings “Impossible.” Spot the card at location 26 after the spectator has shuffled the deck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tell the spectator to choose a secret number between 1 and 10 and to take that many cards off the top of the deck and hide them. You illustrate this by removing six cards and placing them on the table and then covering them with your hands as an illustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then drop the deck on top of those cards. You have just moved the target card to location 20 cards from the top of the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turn away and let the spectator remove and hide the cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turn back and emphasize that it is impossible for you to know how may cards were removed. To drive the point home, deal out cards to spell “impossible”, then drop the deck on top of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tell the spectator that you think that they think you might be doing something “not impossible”, so tell them to add their cards back on top of the deck. Tell them to deal the cards to the table, dealing one card for each letter in “impossible”. Have them look at the last card dealt and remember it. Then have them drop the deck on top of everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can now finish anyway you wish. I have them shuffle the deck. I then take the deck back, and as I spread it face up between my hands, I spot their card and push over nine more cards and cut the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I then spell out “impossible” to find their card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Script: “Ian’s Last Bet”<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,159,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic","category-self-working","category-tricks"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Bob","author_link":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/author\/admin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7765,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions\/7765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Phase 2: The Buy-In (The Cut)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Phase 3: The Bad Dice (6 and 7)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Phase 4: The Pivot (Packet Return)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Phase 5: The Boxcars (12)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Phase 6: The Winning Bet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Explaination:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Additional Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n