Deadliest of the Male
Effect
A card is selected and lost in the deck. Another card is removed and kept sticking out roughly ten cards from the top. A spectator exhales onto this card and it sinks into the deck. It’s now twenty cards down. A second time, the card sinks to essentially thirty down. One last exhale and those watching see the card move within a spread where stops. Finally, it finds the selected card.
Method
This begins with a shuffled deck held face down in your left hand. Have a card selected, using the Dribble Control (p. ) and obtain a break below the selection.
Now, perform Pulp Friction above the break and extend the spread towards a second spectator for her to remove a random card. Say it’s the Ace of Spades.
Square the deck
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Cut roughly ten cards from the bottom to the top and square the side. The Ace of Spades lays outjogged with the selection directly above it.
To show this position, grip the deck with your right hand by the sides. Lift the deck from your left hand and hold it so your audience can see. Have a spectator guesstimate the position of the outjogged card and how far it is from the top—approximetly ten cards.
Grasp the deck momentarily with your left hand, freeing your right hand to gesture as you, “We’ll use this Ace of Spades to find your selected card.” Now transfer the deck into your right hand dealing grip.
Utilize Pulp Friction to cause the Ace of Spades to sink down into the deck, searching for the
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Say, “The Ace of Spades started around ten cards from the top and you can see it’s magically moved down now to twenty cards.”
Square the cards into your right hand and repeat the above sequence to cause the card to sink further into the deck. As you square and display the side of the deck as before, your audience can see that the Ace of Spades is now thirty cards from the top. Square the deck and place it into your right hand.
Consequently, the third phase is all bluff. You’ll give the impression that the Ace has sunken again, but no pull down or displacement is necessary. That is, perform a straight reverse spread from right to left. Until you reach the outjogged Ace. You’ll now make it appear as if the Ace is still moving in the spread and the audience catches sight of it just before it stopped.
Accomplish this by utilizing your fingers against the underside of the spread and contacting the cards next to the Ace of Spades. Pull them over a hair’s width. The audience sees the Ace move as you have someone exhale on it. Freeze the action and let the effect register. Display the Ace of Spades in its “new” location by displaying the side of the deck as
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