Magic Magnets
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Description: The magician separates a regular deck of cards into red and black.
Directions: 1. Before you start the trick, divide the deck into reds and blacks. 2. To give the audience the impression of mixing the cards, deal the prepared deck into 4 face-down packets. This reverses the order of reds and blacks but keeps the color separation. You can ask a spectator to do this. Riffle shuffle any two packets together, as precisely as you can. Do the same with the other two packets. Finally, riffle shuffle the two already shuffled packets together. 3. Now, cut one third from the top of the packet and place it to your left, cut another third from the bottom and place it at your right, and put the remaining cards in the middle. You've just cut one color to your right and one to your left. 4. Now spread the central packet facing you and say that you're going to extract two magnets. What you really do is make sure that the packet is well separated into black and red, correcting any stray cards Then extract any two cards, one red and one black. Note which color is on the bottom of this packet, say black for this example. This tells you that the red packet is to your left and the black packet to your right. 5. You now have three face down packets in a row. The reds are to your left and the blacks to your right. Place the black magnet face up on top of the right face-down packet and do the same with the red magnet on the left packet. Snap your fingers and fan or ribbon spread the packet, showing that the colors have separated. Now, take the black magnet and place it face down on the bottom of the face-down center packet and place the red magnet face down on top of the same packet. Snap your fingers and fan or ribbon spread the packet, showing that the colors have separated. |