es ¢ ‘The readers of the Phoenix who own iesue 98 have an interesting card trick in their pos. aeseton. Tho trick ia by Rueduck and ho uses an easy way of eliminating earde by dealing om face up and another face down, The face up on being eliminated and the process continued until Just one card ts left, Using the sano’ system I have evolved the following teteks I thought you might Likes Hand out deck to be shuffled. Taking tt back seoratiy bend a conser of the top card Thon count three carda fron the top of the deck into your right hand one at a tine, ‘ow contin« ue to take carde from the top of the deck into your right hand tut slide thon undor the first Yaree cards you counted off until you have ‘aight cards sounted off. ‘The top card whose corner you bent ts now third from the top in the packot of etght cards. Place the rast of the deck face up on the table, Tell the spectator you want him to sel- get one of the eight, (naturally you won't say ie" but instead “paeket") by eliminating, Teil him to deal the top card face down, The next face up, plactng it on the face up'deck, The next taco down on top of the first face down one = then the next face up onto the deck, Have him continue thus until he has eliminated 4 ye Vv JOHN P,. HAMILTON ¢- < four and has a pile of four face down left. Have him continue as tafore dealing the fret face down, then face up and ho has two loft. Have nim deal the top ono face down and the next face up, The situation is, one card on the table is face down and the rest’ of the dock face Ups ‘Turn your back, have him look at the face down card, shuffle it into the deck end you ean find Te'ahy way you ploage as at i the one whose corner you bente Tho foregoing proses of elimination can be used in many ways, another te to have a card lected, placed In the deck and brought to the top. Riffie shuffle retaining the selected card on top. ‘Hand the dock to another spectator, ask him if ho oan find the first speciator's card. Say you will show hin how. Have him cut tho @oek'in half then out each half into halves again, giving him four piles. Thon to cut cach fof tho four pilea in half again, giving nim eight piles, Of course, you have to keep track of which pile the top card 1s on, Now all you have to do ts pick up the top oard of each pile making sure that the solected card 18 third from Tne top on the pile, of elas. Hox Sireat ‘the spectator to eliminite oards as previousl; explained and he will wind up with tho velocted ard. (*sycHoxrnesrs" - queen, ‘Tere must be something to PSYCHOKINESIS which’ tg the power of mind over matter.” Carter the spectator has dealt out the three cards, the queen, unknown to him, remit fon top of the deck. Ali that you neod to do ts fo take that card, face down, and make the Mex foun turn-over at whatever minber the spectator indicates, Thus he, not you, bas willed the queen to cone ae what evar position he desires. Mexican turnover 1s explained on p. 128 of Hugard's EXPORT CARD TECHNIQUE or on p. 327 of GREATER “UAGIC,) (Most spectators will not de satisfied with one try, #0 in anticipation of his request to "Letts seo 4f 1 oan do tt again” you have al- ready mde an insignificant pencil dot on the back of the queen of hearts (so that only you ~ it is hoped = can seo it.) "ALL right, let's try 1t again, You had good luck last time, s0 plok out the ‘throe cards, mix thon faoe down until you have no loa where’ the queen 1s, Hore's the rest of the deck put those three on top yourself. Write down the Munber at whioh you "will" the queen to fall. Go ahoed and deal the cards out onto'the table or ONE"D FROM PAGE 562) 8 before. Otye mo one of the remaining cards, yny one will do, a0 that I oan use it to flip over. tho cards for yous Yow open up your paper. Matte your mnbert #3? Olay, Lette turn up #2 First, ho that's not its now fl, that's mot it ‘either; #8 bas tobe the musen, and sure enough Rere’ she. 8, You've done it agéini? Cin this ropoat veratony the oueon to al- Fondy on tho table, You can toll at what, post Elon’ by tho (almost) tndietingutahabls. pent dot on the back, If sho is at the position *wi- edt, thon use your card to turn her up slowly ani’ fairly, ff oho is in any other poattion, you have Yo do as suggsated above, burn over Yhe other carde first and this gain possession of the queen @a the face down oard in your hand (ets the sano Mexican turnover.) When that. to Accomplished, then turn over the Fenaining, the Milled oara, and it te the queen. Pive cards Would be better thin three, ‘as pure chance waild Tertess, T suggest three simply boctuse of Sta Sascciatton with Thrae Gard Wonto, (Notice in how many respests the operation of the "repeat? Aitgers’ from the original.) (Eds note: or see Vernon's "12'S" in desu #120.) Page S62