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ROUGE ET CETERAAs the title indicates, t hi s manuscript contains

four card routines based on red/black t hemes . Therei s also a fif th trick which isn't based on a colortheme. You can readily appreciate the logic behindits inclusion here. As to t he content of the ms:

"Square One" is an easy card revelation using tworeds and two blacks.

"Infra Red" is a reasonably amusing, 90-secondversion of the color separation or oil & water theme.

"Rouge Et Noir" is a blanket title for four dif­ferent approaches to the small packet trick where thespectator guesses the colors. These tricks were writ­ten up in a 1968 manuscript. The trick after "Cheaters"was published in The Pallbearers Review as "Even MoneyProposition" and so does not appear here.

"All Blacks" considers the theme where you mix redsand blacks, add more reds, but the packet ends up allblack each time. One development of the technique ap­peared in Chronicles #3 under the title "Identi-Kit."

"Type Casting" is the closing item. Originally donewith reds and blacks, it was simplified when the hand­ling was changed to a face-up/face-down approach .

Not considered this time around were tricks withred-backed and blue-backed cards. You may want toconsider combining the red/blue premise with the tricksin the following pages.

April 14, 1979 Karl Fulves

Copyright ~ 1979 by Karl Fulves

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SQUARE ONEAt about age 14 or 15 an attempt was made to lLnk

playing cards to tricks using a checkerboard. Thiswould result, years later, in routines like "BlindfoldCheckers" and "Hex Squared," both published in ThePallbearers Review. What follows is one of the early at­tempts.

The spectator removes four cards from his own deck.Two of the cards must be red, the other two black. He ar­ranges them in the form of a checkerboard:

R B

B R

Then he turns all four cards face-down in place. Themagician turns his back. He asks the spectator to decideon one card and turn i t face-up. This will be the chosencard.

Then the spectator t urns any other card face-up inplace. At the magician 's request the spectator exchangesthe chosen card with this face-up card.

Then the spectator exchanges his card with either oft he face-down cards. When this ha s been done, the spec­tator exchanges his card with the other face-down card .

Finally, the spectator exchanges his card with theface-up card . After doing this, he turns all cards face­up.

The magician turns around. Without asking a question,he names the chosen card .

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Method: Wait until the spectator has removed four cardsand arranged them in the face-up layout given on theprevious page . Note the sequence of the cards. In thetop row you may have a 5 and a 9. In the bottom rowyou may have a 7 and a 2. Just remember the cards fromleft to right in each row . In this example you would re­member 5-9, 7-2.

Turn your back. Have the spectator make the exchangesdescribed on the previous page. Then he turns each cardface-up in place.

Now face the spectator. Simply note which one of thefour cards is back in its original position. There willbe only one such card and it is the chosen card.

The above routine is the original one . I later learn­ed that it could be accomplished with fewer exchanges.Later developments also included one where you did notknow the arrangement of the four cards at the start,and variations where the chosen card, though unknown in~lue to you, ended up in a pr ede t er mi ned position.

I NFRA REDThe small-packet t rick wher e reds and blacks mixed

t oget he r mys t er i ously separate was published by WalterGibson i n ~ #91. Subsequently i t became known asOil & Water. I have never seen magicians perform thistrick f or l a ymen s o I cannot say how ot her s have faredwith it . I ' ve t ried various rout ines mys e l f and wasnever able to extract a nyt hi ng of magical value fromthe premise .

Consequently, an effort was made to re-structure

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the entire premise to fit my own manner of working. Iwanted a routine that started with the colors actuallymixed, required no displacement moves or extra cards,and was not tediously long. An amusing patter linewas also deemed desirable.

The following trick was the one evolved to fit theseconditions. From start to finish it takes 90 seconds,and that includes a final "impossible" phase. It suitsmy own way of working, so I tend to get a lot out of it.You may not find it suitable to your style, or you mayfind parts of it okay and parts not to your liking.Either way you can alter the routine to your own style.

The PremiseFinding a logical patter line for oil & water is

like trying to find a needle in a haystack. You knowit's there but you have to work hard to find it. Hereis one approach.

I explain that some years ago when I was in the mid­east, a Shah invited me to his palace. There he suggest­ed a little game. Informing me that he had two daughters,one of them lovely, he said that in order to win herhand, all I had to do was pick out two red cards andtwo black cards from a packet of reds and blacks. Assoon as I succeeded, I would win the hand of this beau­tiful creature.

Naturally apprehensive, I asked, "And what if Ilose?" He laughed and said, "Then you win the hand ofmy other daughter."

The trick begins at this point. The magician's fail­ure to get two reds and two blacks makes him increasing­ly frantic as the routine progresses.

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This is the basic premise. You can change it to apatter line where you sign a pact with the devil. Youget your wish if you are able to pick two reds and twoblacks. If you get four of one color, you lose yoursoul, your house and your car.

Another possibility has to do with a tie-in to pokerhands. Four cards of one color produce the lowest hand,while any other combination produces a winning hand. Allyou have to do is get a hand better than the worthlesshand to win. Naturally you lose.

The actual "shah's daughter" patter will only be out­lined here. This should provide a fair idea of the direc­tion of the presentation. Interested readers can embel­lish the tale to suit personal taste.

The RoutineRequired are four reds and four blacks from any

deck. You will be called upon to do a double lift, a4-as-4 count and the Jordan count. Each move is donejust once. Each phase is different, so you are notperforming the same counts over and over. Also, be­cause the requirements are simple, the routine can belearned in one evening.

The routine is divided into phases in this des­cription, but when I perform it, there is no pointat which I stop to indicate the finish of a phase.The routine is worked right thru from start to finishin less than two minutes.

1. The Shah's Gambit1. Remove 4 reds and 4 blacks from the deck. As you

do, tell the story of the Shah's proposition. Placethe four blacks face-down in the LH. Place the reds

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face-up on the table. You are going t o mix the 8 cardstogether in a common face-down heap. The reason forleaving t he reds face-up but keeping the blacks f a ce ­down is to deliberately plant the possibility of amethod right at the start of the trick.

The audience clearly sees the four reds as they a rebeing mixed with the blacks, but they do not see thef our blacks since this heap is face-down in the hand.Later when you show the colors have separated, some int he audience may suspect that you do not really havefour blacks. After all, you didn't s how them at thestart, so maybe you are trying to hide something. Theaudience may not know what, but they are suspicious.This is all to the good since their suspicion hasnothing whatever to do with the real working of thetrick.

2.With the RH pick up a red, turn it face-down andplace it onto the table. Deal off a black, take it withthe RH and place it onto the face-down tabled red .

3. Take another red from the face-up heap, turn itface-down, and place it onto the tabled face-down heap.

4. Deal off a black from the LH packet. Place itonto the tabled heap,but slightly downjogged or back­jogged.

5. Repeat Step 2 for the remaining reds and blacks .All eight cards have been fairly mixed together so thatthe colors alternate. The top card of the packet isa black card.

6. The RH grasps the tabled packet at the frontshort end and places the packet into the LH.

7. As the RH moves to a position over the packet

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with the fingers at the front, thumb in back, the thumbcontacts the backjogged card. As this card is pushedsquare with the balance of the packet, the thumb liftsit s lightly, creating a break. The left little fingermoves into the break and maintains it.

8. The left thumb pushes the top two cards to theright. They are taken as a unit by the RH without re­versing their order.

9 . As the RH places them on the table, the rightthumb pushes the top card of the pair to the left. Thisreverse spread action is done as the pair of cards isplaced on the table.

10. The RH now takes the top card of the packet be­tween the right thumb & first finger.

11. This card is inserted into the break. It slidesin to a point where the right thumb contacts the topcard of the packet.

12 . The RH now moves away to the right, taking withit an apparent pair of cards. Actually the top "card"of the pair is a double. Under the double i s a singlecard, fanned or spread to the right of the double .

13. The LH turns palm-down. The left thumb con­tacts the left edge of the tabled cards in order tokeep them in place.

14. The RH cards are now used as a scoop. They moveunder the tabled pair and scoop them up. The apparentfour cards are in a fanned condition between rightthumb and fingers. Thus the audience clearly sees fourcards.

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15. The LH places its packet on the table. The pac­ket i s face-down. The audience assumes this packetcontains 4 cards. Really there are only 3 cards inthis packet.

1 6. Square up the RH cards. Flip the packet face­up. You are a t the point in the routine where thepatter is, "The Shah asked me if I wanted these fourcards. Knowing they contained 2 reds and 2 blacks, Iimmediately complied."

17. With the packet face-up, count 4-as-4 to showfour blacks. The last black card goes onto the back ofthe face-up packet.

18. Flip the packet face-down . As you square it,the RH, gripping the packet from above, allows twocards to be released at the face of the packet. Theleft little finger immediately enters the break andmaintains this break over the bottom two cards .

2. Second Chance19. "Seeing my disappointment- not to mention fear­

at losing, the Shah gave me another chance. Pointingto the four cards remaining on the table, he asked ifperhaps I would like to choose those instead." Hereyou point to the tabled packet of apparently fourcards.

20. "I said no, reasoning that if the four cards inhis hand were black, the others had to be all red."Pick up the tabled packet and place it on top of thepacket in the LH.

21."'A pity,' the Shah said. 'You would havewon easily.'" This leads you to a novel angle inroutines of this type; the colors are going to beshown not to have unmixed. It is done very simply.Deal the top card of the packet face-up onto the

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table. It will be red. Deal the next card face-up ontop of it and downjogged for about half its length .It will be black . Deal the next card, showing a red.Deal the next, a black, but use it to scoop up theother three cards . Thus , the last black goes in backand under the packet and scoops up the other threecards .

22. The scooped-up cards are placed face-down ontop of the LH packet. At this point the order of thecards from top to face is: B-R-B-three Reds-two Blacks.

3 . Unmixers23 . "I asked- begged, actually- for another chance

with the same four cards. The Shah obliged with asmile."

24. The RH grasps the packet from above and liftso ff all the cards above the break . The LH places thebalance of the cards face-down on the table.

25. " I See, ' the Shah said, I All the same color. Youl o s e again. '" With the packet in the RH you now performa J o r d a n count. The packet i s face-down. You are show­ing four cards all the same color, but of course it i sthe backs you are showing. This is done as a gag, butit sets you up for a clean display of four separatereds a moment later.

26 . " I know the backs are the same," I said . "Butwe 're betting on the faces." Turn the packet face-upand hold it in LH dealing position . Thumb off the facecard and take it in the RH. Thumb off the next andtake i t onto the face of the RH c a r d . Do the same withthe third red.

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27. The LH holds the 4th red . There are two cardssquared and concealed behind it . The a udience thusclearly sees the four reds. The instant unmix isunexpected and should bring a reaction from the audi­ence .

4 .The Impossible Phase28 . " Look ," I pleaded, " One more c h a n c e . Let me

hold t h e cards . " As you say this, the RH p laces itscards o n t o the face of the LH cards. Square up allc ards, flip them face-down and drop them onto thetabled packet.

29. Pick up the packet and place it in LH dealingposition. Then deal t h e eight cards i n t o two face-downrows as follows:

1 2 3 4

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That is, you deal from left to right i n the top row,then from right to left i n t h e n e x t row . I t is importantwhen you deal the cards to flash the 3rd card so theaudience sees i t is a r e d. As yo u deal the top r ow,t i me the deal so you say, "We' l l put the reds here "j u s t as you flash the f a c e of t he r e d card at position 3 .

Simi larly ,when you d eal t h e bottom row, flash theface of the last card (p o s i t i o n 8) j u s t as you say "Andthe b l a c k s here."

30. Now pick up the card at 8 and place i t on topof the card at 1. Place these cards on top of the cardat 1 , then t hese on top of the card at 1. Co n t i n u e thisway, placing all cards on 6, then t h e s e on 3 , these on

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5, t h e n all o n 4. It is d one qui c k ly and looks as ift he colors are hopelessly mixed .

31 . Pl a c e t he packet in the s pectator's hands .Direct him to deal o ff the t op four . "The Sh a h gav eme the c a r d s . I knew he couldn't tamper with t hem.Visions o f his lovely daughter d anced in my head"(Cert ain ly the r e a d e r c a n thin k up better p a t t e r , b u tyo u s houl d g e t t he drift)

32. The spe ctator turns over the f our cards i n h ish a nd and find s they a re a l l red . Sc eptics wi l l gr ab forthe tabled c ard s and turn them ov er to d iscover the yare the f o u r blac k s.

ROUGE ET Na IRThe "Rouge Et Noir" vari ations d esc ribed here are

all taken from a 1968 manus cript, copies of which weresent at the time t o Roy Wal t o n , Jack Avis and others.Some changes were made in the interim. First, in t h eoriginal notes I credited Daley with the basic premise .La t e r I came acros s the basic e ffect in an old maga zine .I think it wa s Stanyon's, but on re-checki ng I c a nno tfind the write-up.

In any event, the trick was a scribed to anothermagician. Rath er than conf u s e the issue with specula­tion, I'll leave the matter of proper credit to whoeverclaims to h ave found t h e earliest reference.

The material in t his section i s offered a s possiblenew avenues i n handling the Rouge Et Noir premis e. I fthis s eems t oo lof t y a claim, these ide as may b et hought o f as mere variations on a theme.

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New NoirRequired are four reds and 3 blacks, arranged so

the colors alternate. There will be a red card on topand bottom of the packet after it is stacked.

The packet is fanned as you say you have four redsand four blacks. If you like you can use any of thefamiliar counts to show 4 reds and 4 blacks. At thefinish of the count the packet should be back in theorder given above .

Tell the spectator you would like to test his abil­ity at guessing the colors. As you talk, double cutthe bottom card to the top . The routine now begins .

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6. If the tabled packet contains two reds and twob lacks, cut one red card to the top of the packet . Theorder of the other cards does not matter .

7. Place this packet on top of the LH packet. Say,"You guessed these 4 were red." As you say this, trans­fer the top four cards, one at a time, to the bottomof the packet.

8. "Actually, it is these four that are red." Nowdeal off the next four cards, reversing their order.Place the balance of the packet aside or on top of thedeck.

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1. Deal off the top card and ask the spectator ifthinks this card is red . If he says yes , place itthe table. If he says no, buckle the bottom cardthe packet and feed this first card into the breakyou apparently place i t on the bottom of the packet.

9. Turn the packet in hand face-up and count 4-as-4to show four reds .

10. For an optional finish, place these four cardsface-down under the other three, deal off the top 4,then false count to show four blacks.

2. Deal off the next card and again ask the spec ­tator if he thinks it's red . If he says yes, deal itonto the table . If he says no, slide it into thebuckle break.

3 . continue until you have four cards on the table.Pick up the tabled packet as you say, "Let's see howwell you did."

4. The tabled packet can only contain one of t wopossible color combinations, three reds and a black,or two reds and two blacks.

5 . If the packet contains three reds and a black ,place the LH cards face-down on the table. Arrangethe RH cards so that the odd color is third from theface. Turn the RH packet face up and count 4-as-4to show four reds.

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Rouge IFour blacks and four reds are used in this version .

Here the spectator guesses whether a card is red orb l ack ; if red , the cards go into one heap; if black, in­to a separate heap.

1. Start with the colors alternating red-black-red­black, etc. from top to bottom. You can fan the cardsand flash the faces.

2 . Turn the packet face-down. You are going to dealthe cards singly into a heap on the table, showing thefaces as you deal.

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3 . Hold the pack e t face~down in LH dealing position.Take the t op card with t he RH, letting the upper l e f tcorner snap off the l e f t t humb as it i s b e i ng taken t ot h e right. Flash the face of this card and deal itface-down onto the table .

4. Continue with the next five cards, showing eacha nd dealing each face-down onto the tabled heap.

5. You are l eft with 2 cards in the LB. Take one (t~p)

of them into the RH . Turn bo t h cards face-up. This isdone b~ c ur l i ng t h e forefinger under each card a ndsnapping e ach card to a face-up condition.

6. Wi t hout hesitation slide the RH card under theLH card and flip both face-down into the LH.

7. Drop t hese two cards onto t he tabled packet . Thenpick up the t abled packet a nd double cu t the top car dto the bottom .

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a r e bla ck, he will put two cards on the face-up indi~

cator and two cards in a separate heap ,

12 . Note where the lone red card goes (of the fourcards you gave the spectator, 3 were black and 1 wasred). If it goes into the separate heap , all is fine .I f it goes into the heap with the face-up indicator,say, " You ' r e doing well , but your mind seems to see aco l o r as it's opposite. Let 's try it this wa y ." Nowt a ke the face-up indicator and place it under theother heap.

13 . Hand the spectator the remaining three cards .Aga i n he guesses which go into which heap.

14 . At the finish, pick up t he heap with the indi­c a t or card . Turn the indicator card face-down on topo f the heap and count 4-as-4 with the packet face-upt o show four blacks.

8. By way of a check, you should have two blackstop, two reds on the bottom, and a R-B-R-B block inthe c e nter o f the packet at this point.

on 15. Pi c k up the other heap. With the cards f ac e ­down, reverse count them. Then Jordan count t o showf our reds.

9 . Fan the face-down packet , saying , " I ' d like tot e s t your ability to guess the colors. Some people

have natural intuitive ability at this. "

10. Remove the third card f rom the face , turn itface-up and drop i t onto the t able. Say, "I' m going to~and you the cards . If you think a card is black, putlt on this face-up card. I f you think it 's red, put itin a separate heap."

11. Remove the t op 4 ca r d s and hand t hem to thespectat o r . In guessing which cards are red and which

Rouge IIAn even easier version o f the basic p lot . Required

a r e f ive reds and f ive blac k s . Openly r emove t hem f r omt h e de c k and overhand s hu f fle. This i s a n apparent mix­i ng process ,but i n fac t you shuffle so as to ke ep thecolo r s separate from one anothe r .

1 . After the s huffle assume the blacks are on top.Rema r k t ha t you ' d l ike t h e spectator t o guess the colors .Hand the t op five cards to t h e spectator.

2. He s orts them into two heaps. There can be only

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two possible outcomes . Either he puts 4 cards in oneh e a p & 1 in the other , or he puts 3 cards in one heapand 2 in the other .

3. Hand him the other five cards and have him d i videthem according to his guess as t o what the colors are .

4. We'll first take the case where the first f ivecards were d ivided 4 and 1. Pick up the heap containingthe single black card a nd place i t in LH dealing pos i ­tion. Say , "I think these are a ll black."

5. Buckle the bottom card of this packet. Pick upthe other packet wi th the RH, saying, "And these shoul dbe all red . "

6. Slide the RH packet into the buckle break. Thendeal off the top five cards to show all black. Fan t hebalance of the packet to show all red.

7. If the b lacks a r e split 3 and 2 , p ick up the p a c­ketcontaining the t wo blacks . Pla c e this p ack e t int o theLH. Double buckle . Pick up t he other packet with t h e RHand s lide i t into the buckle b r e ak. F i nish as above .

CheatersYet another approach. I n this c a s e the i nd i c a tor

cards p lay a n acti ve role in the trick- that i s, theyfigure i n the method as we ll as the effect .

1 . Start with 5 reds and 5 bla c k s arranged so tha tthe colors alt e r n a t e. Th e r e i s a black card on top o fthe packet, a red card at the bottom .

2. Display the cards exactly as described in Rouge I,

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steps 1 thru 7. It is annoying to refer the reader backto a previous trick, but it saves about a page of text.You have just gone thru the 7 steps indicated. Thereare now, unknown to the audience, two red cards on topo f the packet.

3 . Say, "I'll use two indicators, but in order tok e e p this strictly according to chance, I won't let yous e e the faces." Deal the top card of the packet to thel e f t and the next card about 7" to the right. Bothc a r d s are face-down.

4 . "If you think a card is red, put it on top of oneind i c a t o r. If you think it's black, put it on top ofthe other indicator."

5. Double cut the top card to the bottom of thep ack e t . Then say, "Let's see if the colors are wellmixe d . "

6. Deal the top card face-up onto the table . Dealthe next card face-up onto it , the next onto that . Thenturn the 4th card face-up . Use it as a scoop to scoopup the other three cards. This means that the 4th card(a black) goes under th~packet as it scoops up the pac­k e t.

7 . Place the packet face-down on top of the cards int h e LH. Then double cut the top card to the bottom asyou remark , "I'll mix them a bit more so you won't knowwh i c h cards are which. "

8. Fan over the t op four cards and take them with theRH. Then give the remaining cards in the LH to the spec­t a t o r . He doesn 't know it but all four cards are black.

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9. The spectator places two cards on one indicatorand 2 cards on the other indicator .

10. You have tour cards lett. Openly shift the topcard to the bottom. The packet now has a black card o ntop, followed by three reds.

11. Hand the spectator this packet . Have him guessthe colors. Keep track of where the lone black cardgoes . Say it goes onto the LH packet.

12. Say, "This is a puzzling thing . You d id verywell in guessing the colors ." Pick up the LH packetin glide position but honestly remove the bottom card(the face-down indicator). Place this card in fron tof the RH packet .

13. Pick up the RH packet, i ncluding the indicatorat the face . Hold it in glide position . Glide backthe face card and remove the next card. Place thiscard, the supposed indicator , in front of t he LH p a c ­ket.

14. Shuffle t h i s packet and drop i t onto t he table .Then pick up the other packet , shuffle and turn itface -up. Say " Th e o n l y thing you mis s e d on were theindicator cards . I was sure I put the r e d indicatoron the l e f t . " Remove the single r e d card from the LHpacket and drop it face-up onto t h e t a b l e.

15 . Th e n fan the balance of the packet and dropi t face-up onto the table , showing four blacks .

16. Handle the RH packet the same way to show ablack and four reds .

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ALL aLACKSThe routine described here uses the theme that when

some reds and some blacks are mixed together , the cardswi l l always become black. This trick was the basis fort he oil & water routine in Notes From Underground .

Required are 5 reds and 5 blacks, intermixed so thecol o r s alternate. The top card is red, the next black,the next is red and it has a large X drawn on the face.Th e next card is black, the next red, etc .

1. Fan the cards showing the indices. Then squareup t h e packet and hold it face-down in the LH dealingposit i o n .

2 . You now display the cards singly as described inRou ge I, Steps 1 thru 7, except that you do not showthe face of the X'd card. Deal this card into the RH,say "Red," and drop it onto the tabled cards. This isthe only card whose face is not show. In performancethe slight change in handling will not be noticed.

3 . At the completion of the deal-and-show sequence,af t e r you have transferred a single card from the top tothe bottom of the packet, deal the top four cards ontothe table in a face-down heap. The balance of the cardsare placed aside.

4. Pick up the tabled heap just dealt, turn it face­up and show that all cards are black by counting 4 as 4.

5. Cut the top 2 cards of this packet to the bottom .Th e n hold the packet in RH dealing position .

6 . The right thumb deals the top two cards of itsp a c ke t onto the table . The LH picks up the other packetand deals the top two cards onto the tabled cards. Itappe a r s as if you have just mixed two reds & two blacks.

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J;lhase Two7. You have two cards remaining in the RH. ~lace

these on top at the LH cards, then put this packet onthe table to one side.

8. Pick up the four cards just dealt onto the tab­le, turn them face-up and count 4~as~4 to show allblacks again.

9. Note throughout that the face of the X' d c a r dnever shows. Drop the packet you're holding ant thetable.

Phase Three10. Say you'll make things a little harder. Pick up

the other packet and drop it on top of the one justplaced on the table.

11. Now openly remove a card from the bottom of thispacket and place it face-down on the table . Then removea card from the top a nd place it face-down on the tabledcard. Remove another card from the bottom and anotherfrom the top, placing or dropping each on top of thetabled cards.

12. The cards in hand are placed aside. Pick up t h etabled cards, r e v e r s e the order of the cards a s you say ,"We 'll just mix the colors a bit more," turn the packetface-up and count 4 as 4 to show all blacks again .

Phase Four13. "We have too many blacks as it is. To make i t

harder we'll get rid of one of them." With the packetsquare and face-down in the LH, the RH takes the topcard, fingers at the front, thumb at the back, andplaces this card on top of the deck.

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14. The RH ta.kes the top ca.rd o~ the tabled packetand inserts it into the pa.cket i n the LH at a positionsec on d from the top.

lS.Turn the packet face~up, count 4~as~4 and showt h a t you still have four blacks .

1 6 . "Still too many blacks." The RH lifts off thetop card of the packet and places it on top of t he deck.Th e n the RH takes the top card of the tabled packet andins e r t s it face-down second from the top of the packeti n the LH.

17. Turn the LH packet face-up and count 4-as-4 toshow all blacks.

Phase Five18 . "Maybe you would have better luck," the magician

says . Remove the top card with the RH and place it on t opof the deck.

1 9 . Hand the spectator t h e three cards in the LH.Then spread the two remaining tabled cards and give hima c ho i c e . This has to be a magician's choice since youmus t ha v e him pick the black card . The easiest dodge isthe one suggested by George Blake : " Pl e a c e p i c k a cardf o r me . " If he picks the black card, hand it to hima nd have him insert it in the packet. If he picks ther e d card, say , "Fine , that this leaves the other cardfo r you." Now he picks up the tabled card and places iti n his packet.

20.He mixes his four cards and then deals them face­up i n t o a tabled heap. He is usually flabbergasted tod i s c ov e r that they are all blacks.

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l?hase Six21. Take the all~black ~acket ~rom him, turn it ~ace

down and place it in LH dealing position.

22. Say, "Still too many blacks. 1t Now the RH graspsthe packet from above. As it pretends to lift off thetop card as before, it really lifts off the top threecards and deposits them on top of the deck.

23. Pick up the remaining tabled card and place itunder the card in the LH. Act as if you are about toturn the packet face-up and count to show 4 blacks, butthen change your mind and say, "Let's get rid of onemore black."

24. The RH takes the top card of the packet anddrops it on top of the deck. Pause, act puzzled, andsay, "Now there aren't enough ."

25 . Snap the single red card face-up and toss it on­to the table. The remaining blacks have vanished.

(Aha, you will say, why did he draw an X on thatcard at t he beginning of the trick if he never intendedto use the X. The answer is this . I have a picture ofSatan, drawn with r e d ink , that measures about an i nchsquare. This was pasted to the face of one card, andthis i s the card referred to as the X' d card in the pre­vious text . Since the face of this card is never seenuntil the finish, it forms a surprising conclusion, andalso affords an e xplanation as to why this red card r e ­mained and the blacks v a nis h e d )

In 1 96 8 I had special cards made up for a routinecalled "The Curse Of Dr i nk . " Four of the cards had en­gravings of Victorian-type drunks. The other four cardsshowed Cary Nation , the a~vocate of Prohibition . Theidea was that the "Nation" cards refomed the drunks,

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s e nd i n g them on their way. On the last card, the X'dcar d not seen until the end , all the Cary Nations ared one away with by the ultimate tmbiber F here y ou turnov e r the last card and show a picture of. W,C. Fields .Ha nd l i n g is exactly as given above.

There was also a version using a story about aho u s e of ill fame, somewhat along the lines of "SongAt Twilight" in Transpo Tricks.

TYPE CASTINGIn a book advertised as offering four tricks, it

wou l d appear pointless to include a fifth. This ise s p e c i a l l y true if the book is supposed to deal withc o l o r tricks and the final routine does not, becauset h e r e then exists a situation where a trick is includedin a book where it doesn't belong .

"Type Casting" started out as a red/black trick butthe handling was streamlined & appears here as a face­up/ f a c e - down trick. When originally devised, I did notknow exactly why it worked, only that it should. Perhapssome o n e out there can provide a proof.

Although independently developed, the routine isc l e a r l y related to a Hummer cut-and-turn over premiset h a t appeared i n his face-up/face-down booklet. Int h e present trick , the spectator turns over blocks ofcards rather than pairs.

1. Patter to the effect that all personality typesa r e stored in computer memories. Naturally each type isg i v e n a different number . Stare at the spectator, thens a y , "I think you're either a 5-4 type or a 6-3 type.Le t me say definitely that you're a 5-4 type."

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2 . As you patter, remove the top 18 cards tram thedeck. Don't make it look like counting. Remove thecards in twos and threes until you have 18 cards.

3. Let the spectator shuffle the l8~card packet.Turn your back. Instruct him to reverse a block o~

c a r ds on t op of the packet and a block o~ c a r ds on thebottom. Each block should contain at least 2 cards.

4. When this has been done, take the packet behindyour back. When you get the packet, deal the cards fromhand to hand, reversing every other card.

5. Then deal the top 9 cards off the packet andtake them with the right hand.

6. Bring the packets out into view. "If I'm rightand you really are a 5-4 type, then we should have fivecards facing one way and four the other." Pause fordramatic effect and then add, " . .. in each packet."

7. Spectator checks and he will find , for example,5 face-up cards and 4 face-down cards in each packet .Or he might find 5 face-down and 4 face-up cards. Notethat you said nothing as to which outcome he could ex­p e c t. You merely remarked that there would be a 5-4split between cards facing one way and cards facingthe other.

The trick works itself. There are times when itwill not work with both packets because of a lopsidedreversal of cards. For example , if the spectator re­verses the top single card in place, thel\reverses thebottom 10 cards in place, y ou will end up with a 5-4split in one packet, but a 6~3 split in the other.

If this happens, it enhances the trick. Simply re­mark that he is a 5-4, but that his wife, girlfriend,lover, etc. is a 6-3, a perfect combination.

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(Published by Karl Fulves, Box 433, Teaneck,NJ 07666 ) l