Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
Share image
1
750
Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
165
Should
the
card
in
the
first
instance
prove
to
be
among
the
non-designated
cards,
you
will
proceed
as
last
directed;
but
do
not
in
this
case
repeat
the
trick.
TO
ALLOW
A
PERSON
SECRETLY
TO
THINK
OF
A
CARD,
AND,
EVEN
BEFORE
SUCH
CARD
IS
NAMED,
TO
SELECT
IT
FROM
THE
PACK,
AND
PLACE
IT
SINGLY
UPON
THE
TABLE.--This
trick
is
on
the
same
principle,
and
performed
in
a
great
measure
by
the
same
means,
as
that
last
described.
You
invite
a
person
to
think
of
a
card
(without
naming
it).
When
he
has
done
so,
you
offer
the
pack
to
another
person
to
shuffle,
and
finally
to
a
third
person
to
cut.
Then,
selecting
any
one
card
from
the
pack,
you
walk
to
your
table,
and,
without
showing
what
it
is,
place
it
face
downwards
on
the
table,
retaining
the
rest
of
the
pack
in
your
left
hand.
Then,
addressing
the
person
who
was
requested
to
think
of
a
card,
you
say,
“The
card
which
I
have
just
placed
on
the
table
is
the
one
you
thought
of.
Will
you
be
good
enough
to
name
it?”
We
will
suppose
that
the
card
thought
of
was
the
ace
of
spades.
You
say,
as
in
the
last
trick,
“Allow
me
to
show
you,
in
the
first
place,
that
the
ace
of
spades
is
no
longer
in
the
pack.”
Coming
forward
to
the
audience,
and
rapidly
running
over
the
cards,
you
catch
sight
of
the
ace
of
spades,
and
slip
it
behind
the
rest.
Having
shown
that
it
is,
apparently,
not
in
the
pack,
you
turn
the
cards
over
(when
the
ace
will,
of
course,
be
on
the
top),
and
palm
it.
Leaving
the
pack
with
the
audience,
you
advance
to
your
table,
and
pick
up
the
card
on
the
table
with
the
same
hand
in
which
the
ace
of
spades
is
already
palmed.
Draw
away
the
card
towards
the
back
of
the
table,
and,
as
it
reaches
the
edge,
drop
it
on
the
servante,
and
produce
the
ace
of
spades
as
being
the
card
just
picked
up.
The
trick
requires
a
little
practice,
but,
if
well
executed,
the
illusion
is
perfect.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
