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> Then I manufacture an entire deck out of duplicates of those three cards. That takes 18 decks, which is costly and tedious.

Ok, so far so good.

> When I cut the cards, I let you glimpse a few different faces. You conclude the deck contains 52 different cards.

Well, you'd have to cut the cards very precisely then, and you can only show three cards. I'd say the subject would sense something is fishy here.

> You think you’ve made a choice, just as when you choose between two candidates preselected by entrenched political parties.

Really? This is getting interesting. But where is this trick explained?



> Well, you'd have to cut the cards very precisely then, and you can only show three cards. I'd say the subject would sense something is fishy here.

He doesn't mean that he cuts, shows three cards, and says "as you can see, the cards are all different", or anything like that. He means that he handles the cards loosely, as if it doesn't matter whether the spectator sees the faces, and what they do see is enough of a jumble that it doesn't just look like a deck of 52 queens of hearts.

> But where is this trick explained?

That was the whole thing. Note that the spectator reveals their chosen card before he does the mime, so naturally he mimes the card going to wherever their chosen card happens to be.


I believe the cards are face down when you choose them (which gives the impression that the magician doesn't know which cards you are picking).

What is not explained is how the magician determines which of the 3 cards was actually picked.


You tell him. The trick is that the has your card in his wallet or his shoe etc.


> Well, you'd have to cut the cards very precisely then

The first eighteen cards are QH, the next eighteen are AS, the last eighteen are 3C. You only have to be precise enough to cut to to the top third, middle third, bottom third.




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