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.As you say this, glance at the bottom circle of the top card of the pack and notethe card, then complete the cut and place the deck aside.The card you noted identifiesthe card the spectator has on his mind.(2) You can also overhand (false) shuffle the pack, cut the deck and then ask a spectator tocall stop as you riffle down the edge of the cards, preferably about 1/3 from the top of thedeck.Riffle the upper left corner of the pack until the spectator calls stop.Cut off thepacket at that point and place in a face down pile on your table, to the right.Have asecond spectator do the same, stopping you approximately halfway through the packet.Cut off this packet and place to the left of the first packet.Place the remaining cards in apile to the left of thesecond pile.Remove a sealed envelope from your pocket.Read italoud.It predicts that three spectators will cut a shuffled pack of playing cards, leavingthe QD, AH and 4S at the bottom of the three piles.Turn up the pile on the left.The facecard is the QD.Lift up the middle pile and display the AH, and finally the third packet,which has the 4S on its face.Puzzled.Don t be.The marking on the back of the right handpile identifies the face card of the pile on the left.The marking on the back of the top cardof this pile identifies the face card of the middle pile.The marking on the back of the top633Stunners-Plus! The Mental Magic of Larry Beckercard of the middle pile identifies the face card of the pile on the right.As you read yourprediction letter, look down over the top edge of the paper and miscall the names of thecards you see on the backs of the top three cards.Fold the prediction and place it in yourpocket as you turn the three piles face up and show the face cards to the audience.The Incredible PsiClops Bonus EffectAfter you ve digested this, imagine the level of devastation to your audience if you followthe first phase with the three pile prediction and/or the challenge card in the pocket.Effect:The spectator examines and shuffles a deck of cards to his heart s content.The performerthen riffles the edge of the deck and asks the spectator to call stop at any time.When thespectator does so, the performer, with his head turned away, opens the deck and allow thespectator to memorize the card that he stopped on.The deck is then handed to the spectatorto shuffle and cut.The spectator is now instructed to place the deck back in the card box,and to encircle the box with two rubber bands.The performer places the bound deck inhis jacket pocket.Describing the total impossibility of knowing where in the deck thespectator s freely selected card is, the performer asks the spectator to call aloud the cardhe memorized.For example, it is the 3 of spades.The performer exclaims, Watch! Plunging his hand into his jacket pocket, the performerbrings out a single playing card and places it face down on the palm of the spectator shand.Withdrawing the boxed deck from his pocket, the performer notes that the case isstill secured by the two rubber bands the spectator placed around it.The performer removesthe bands and takes out the deck.Running the cards from hand to hand before thespectator s eyes, the spectator is asked to call stop the moment he sees the card he freelyselected from a deck he examined, shuffled and cut repeatedly.When all the cards havebeen shown, the spectator states that his card is not in the deck.The performer asks,once again, which card did you think of? The spectator replies, the 3 of spades. Theperformer has the spectator turn over the face down card on the palm of his hand.It is the3 of spades!Thanks to the ingenuity of the incomparable Roberto Giobbi (who I had the pleasure ofstaying with during my European tour in 1989) you are about to learn the easiest andmost effective deck switch ever.To prepare, cut the 3 of spades to the bottom of yourstacked PsiClops deck.Remove it and place it in your left hand jacket pocket.Place theremainder of the deck back into the PsiClops box.Now wrap a rubber band around themiddle of the box, and another band around the narrow ends of the box.Place the PsiClopsdeck in your left jacket pocket, behind the 3 of spades and closest to your body.Now, takea matching deck of blue backed Bicycle cards and remove the three of spades.Make acorner short out of the 3 of spades.I use an emery board to round off the upper left handcorner and the lower right hand corner of a face down blue backed Bicycle 3 of spades.Shuffle the 3 of spades into the deck until the cards are thoroughly mixed.Box the deckand wrap two rubber bands around the box to match the PsiClops deck.Place this deck(which will be used for the first effect) in the right hand jacket pocket.634Commercial Material - Ads & InstructionsNote: to provide you with a visual check during the routines, I place an inconspicuousmark on the PsiClops box so I can easily tell the difference between the two decks.Now, follow the description of the effect
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