Cameron Francis - Moment's Notice 04.pdf

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

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ACE THANG

p. 4

SLY CHEESE

p. 7

BACK SPLASH

p. 9

EUPHORIA

p. 13

SELECTED ASSEMBLY p. 16 FLUSH THE TRANSPO p. 20

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INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing the fourth installment of the Moment's Notice series. I'm starting to run out of things to say in these introductions. So rather than keep babbling on about nothing, I'll just stop here. On second thought, I'll stop

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Until next time, Cameron Francis July, 2010

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ACE THANG This is a totally impromptu version of Richard Sanders' brilliant effect “King Thing” from the Richard Sanders Show dvd set. Effect: The magician places two Jokers inside of the card case. He then talks about how he practices as he removes the four Aces and openly places them into four different parts of the deck. He turns the top card of the deck face up announcing that this is an indicator card. Let's say it's a Five. This means that he will have less than five seconds to find all four Aces. The spectator starts counting down from five. Before she can reach one, the magician declares that he did it. He turns over the top card. It is an Ace. He spreads the pack. Another Ace is reversed in the middle. He removes the two Jokers from the card case. A third Ace is between them. Finally, the spectator turns over the Five and discovers that it is now an Ace! The deck is spread face up to show that there are no extra Aces. Performance: 1. Run through the deck with the faces toward you and cut the Ace of Hearts to the top of the deck. Remove two Jokers, flip them face down and slip them under the face up deck. If you don't have Jokers in your deck, remove two Kings instead. 2. Turn the deck face down so that the Jokers (or Kings) are face up. Spread over the top three cards. Square them up, securing a break under all three. Lift up all three cards above the break in right hand Biddle Grip. 3. Peel the top Joker onto the deck, keeping a pinky break under it, and then place the second Joker and the card under it on top of it (This is a standard sandwich load). Lift the three cards off the deck and place them into the card case, saying, “Let's place these aside for now. We'll get back

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to them in a little bit.” 4. Say, “One question I get from a lot of people is, 'How do you practice?' Well, I'll show you. What I do is, I remove the four Aces and then place them into four different parts of the deck to make sure they are evenly distributed.” As you say this, run through the deck with the faces toward you. Cut the Ace of Clubs and the three indifferent cards in front of it to the face of the deck. In other words, at the face of the deck are three indifferent cards followed by the Ace of Clubs and then the rest of the deck. 5. Keep running through the deck and up jog the Ace of Spades and the Ace of Diamonds. Strip them out. Place the Ace of Diamonds in front of the Ace of Spades and place both cards onto the face of the deck. 6. Spread over the six cards at the face of the deck and then square them up, securing a pinky break under them. Lift up all the cards above the break and place the deck face down on the table. 7. Elmsley Count the packet to show four Aces. Flip the packet face down and plop it on top of the deck. 8. Pick up the deck and riffle down the edge of it with your left thumb until

you almost reach the bottom. Insert the top card of the deck into the break, leaving it out jogged. Riffle down and insert the next card a little more toward the middle, once again leaving it out jogged. Insert the next card a little higher up, leaving it out jogged as well. Pick up the last card and flash its face. Riffle off three cards from the top and insert the Ace into the break, once again leaving the card out jogged (Fig. 1). 9. Slowly push all four out jogged cards flush into the deck. 10. Get a break under the top card (Ace)

and perform a Braue Reversal so that the card is reversed in the middle of the deck. Here's how it's done: Hold the deck in right hand Biddle Grip,

Fig. 1

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your right thumb holding the break between the top card and the deck. With your left hand. Undercut half the deck, and revolve it face up as you place it on top of the face down portion. Now undercut all the cards below the break and flip them face up, placing them under the rest of the cards. 11.Say, “Now the idea here is that I have to challenge myself to find all four Aces within a certain period of time.” Turn the deck face down and perform a double lift. This will be an indifferent card. Let's say in this example that it's an Eight. Say, “Since this is an Eight, it means that I have to find all four Aces in under eight seconds.” 12.Turn the double face down and deal the top card onto the table. 13.Have the spectator slowly count down from eight. When she starts counting, quickly slip cut the top card into the middle of the deck and then immediately call out, “Done! I've found all four Aces!” 14. Turn over the top card showing it is an Ace. Say, “Well, maybe that isn't

super impressive. But this is...” Spread the face down deck showing one Ace reversed in the middle. 15. Open the card case and remove the

two Jokers. Spread them to show one card reversed between them. Turn the card over showing it to be the Ace of Hearts.

Fig. 2

16. Finally, have the spectator turn over the card on the table to reveal the

final Ace. Fig. 2 shows the final display.

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SLY CHEESE This trick is a very simple variation of Luke Dancy's great effect, “Royale With Cheese” available as a download at www.penguinmagic.com. The handling was inspired by the first phase of Peter Duffie's “Sly Aces” from his ebook “Card Secrets Unlocked” (www.peterduffie.com). Effect: A card is selected and lost in the deck. Four Kings are then removed from the pack. The magician claims that one pair of Kings will attempt to find the selection but the spectator needs to nominate which set, the reds or the blacks. Let's say the spectator says the red Kings. The four cards are clearly shown to be face down. A magical gesture is made and when the magician runs through the packet, the red Kings are now face up. “The red Kings appear to be magical enough. Let's see if they can find your card.” The red Kings are cut into the deck. When the deck is spread, the black Kings are now sandwiched between the red Kings. In the magician's hand is one card: the selection! Performance: 1. Have a card selected and noted. Control the card to the top of the deck. With the faces toward you, run through the deck and up jog the four Kings (if the spectator selected a King, use Aces, or Jacks or Queens). 2. Ask the spectator if she prefers the black or red Kings. Let's say she says red. Strip out the Kings and arranged them so the black Kings are at the face and the red Kings are at the back. 3. Place the face up Kings on top the face down deck. Spread over the top five cards to display the Kings. As you square the cards up, secure a break under the fifth card. Lift up all five cards above the break in right

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hand Biddle Grip. Table the face down deck. 4. With your left thumb, peel the top King into your left hand. Peel the next two Kings singly on top of the first. Place the last two cards as one on top of all. Flip the packet face down. 5. Slide out the bottom card of the packet with your right fingers and take it into your right hand. With your left thumb, push the top card of the packet to the right, taking it under the card in your right hand in a spread. Push the next card in the packet to your right so you are holding a spread of four face down cards. The last two cards in your left hand are being held as one. 6. Square up the cards. Perform a Through The Fist Flourish, reversing the packet. 7. Give the packet an Elmsley Count showing the two red Kings reversed between (apparently) two face down cards. 8. Slip the top face down card to the bottom of the packet. 9. Lift off the top face up red King and place it on top of the deck. 10.Buckle the bottom card and, with your right hand holding the cards in Biddle Grip, lift off the top three cards as one and place it on top of the red King on the deck. It should look as if you simply put two red Kings on top of the pack. In reality, you have placed all four Kings on top of the deck. This leaves one face down card in your left hand which the spectators believe to be the two black Kings. 11.Have the spectator give the deck one straight cut. Snap your fingers over the deck and spread it, revealing all four Kings reversed in the middle of the pack. Say, “Looks like the red Kings are full of surprises. Because not only did they make the black Kings appear between them, but they shot one card back into my hand...” 12.Look at the face down card in your left hand. Snap it over to reveal the selection.

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BACK SPLASH This is a really fun and very easy card to card case effect which has an “Ace Thang” feel to it except this time there are two selections involved. Effect: The magician removes a few cards from the deck which he places aside. A card is selected and placed face down on the table. Another card is selected and lost in the deck. The magician displays four mystery cards from earlier, revealing them to be the four Jacks. The Jacks are placed in the box. The magician then asks the spectator what his favorite Jacks are, the reds or blacks. Let's say he says reds. The magician snaps his fingers over the box. He spreads the deck. One card is reversed in the middle, the Jack of Hearts! The spectator turns over the card on the table. It is now the Jack of Diamonds! The magician opens the card case and removes the cards. Between the two black Jacks are two reversed cards, the two selections. Performance: 1. Run through the deck with the faces toward you and remove the four Jacks. Arrange them in Red, Red, Black, Black order. It doesn't matter which are at the face or the back, however do not let the spectators see the faces of the cards. 2. Flip the deck face down. As you go to square up the face down Jacks on the deck, release the bottom one. Square up the other three and place them face down on the table to your right. Pick up the card case and place it on top of the packet of Jacks. 3. Cut the deck and hold a pinky break between the halves. Riffle Force to the break and cut the bottom portion back to the top of the deck. Perform a double turnover showing an indifferent card. Ask one of the spectators to

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remember this card. 4. Turn the double face down and deal the top card to the table. Ask the spectator to cover his selection with his hand. 5. Turn to another spectator. Riffle down the left side of the deck. Wherever the spectator calls stop, legitimately cut the deck at that point and have the spectator take the card on the bottom portion. Place the right hand portion back on top of the deck. 6. After he shows the card around, have the second spectator place his card on top of the deck. Give the deck a few false cuts and then secure a break under the top two cards of the deck. 7. With your right hand, pick up the card case. Turn your left hand palm down and scoop up the three cards on the table, pinning them on top of the deck with your left thumb. You are now holding a break under five cards. 8. Place the card case off to your right. Turn your left hand palm up revealing a Jack at the face of the packet. 9. Lift up all five cards above the break and place the deck on the table directly in front of you. 10.Give the packet a Jordan Count showing four Jacks. Flip the packet face down. Hold it from above in right hand Biddle Grip. Your left hand is still cradling the packet from below. With your left first finger, push against the outer right corner of the bottom card and buckle it. Hold a break between the bottom card and the rest of the packet with your right thumb. 11.Two things now happen at once. Your left hand reaches across to your right and picks up the card case as your right hand hovers less than an inch over the deck and releases the card below the break on top of the deck. Fig. 1 shows the card just before releasing it from the bottom of the packet. Fig. 2 shows the action from the spectator's point of view. As you can see, there is plenty of misdirection and cover for drop the card off on top of the deck.

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12.Bring your hands together and put the packet of cards inside the card case and close up the flap. Place the card case off to your right. Be sure to glimpse the Jack at the face of the packet as you slip it into the case. Let's say it's a black Jack. 13. Pick up the deck as you say, “So we

have one selection on the table and one lost somewhere in the deck.” As you say this, secure a break under the top card of the deck and perform a Braue Reversal so the card winds up reversed in the middle of the deck.

Fig. 1

14.Place the face up deck in front of you on the table. 15.Ask a spectator if he prefers the red Jacks or black Jacks. Let's say he says black Jacks. Say, “Fine. So let's get rid of the red Jacks.” 16.Snap your fingers twice over the card case. 17. Spread the deck showing one card

reversed in the middle. Turn the card over showing a red Jack. 18. Have the first spectator turn over the

card on the table to reveal the second red Jack. 19.Say, “So if those are the red Jacks, that must mean that the black Jacks are still in the card case...”

Fig. 2

20.Open the card case and remove the two black Jacks and the two cards reversed between them. Remove the cards to show they are the selections. Note: Of course, it doesn't matter which color the spectator selects. Let's say in our example that the spectator had said red Jacks. You would say, “Fine. A little

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magic with the red Jacks.” Snap over the box and then reveal that the red Jacks escaped. The key is to glimpse which Jacks you are placing inside the box so that you know whether the selected Jacks are staying in the box and expelling the Jacks which were not selected, or expelling the selected Jacks.

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EUPHORIA A self working double prediction effect with a surprise ending. Effect: The magician removes a packet of cards from the deck and two prediction cards which he places aside. The packet is cut and shuffled. The magician then hands the packet to a spectator who deals the cards into two piles. Another spectator picks up the second pile and both spectators eliminate cards until they are each left holding one. The cards are turned over. We'll say the cards are the Queen of Hearts and the Jack of Clubs. The predictions are turned over. They are the Jack of Spades and the Queen of Diamonds! The Jack of Clubs packet is turned face up. All of the cards are red. The Queen of Hearts packet is turned over. All of its cards are black. Performance: 1. Run through the deck and remove two contrasting court cards. These can be any cards you will but for this example we'll stick with the Queen of Hearts and the Jack of Clubs. Place them face down on the table. Now remove six black spot cards and six red spot cards, placing them on top of the two cards already on the table. I usually remove them in red/black groups of two to make things easier. 2. Say that you need to make a prediction. Pick up the packet and hold it with the faces toward you. Act as if you are considering each card and changing your mind as you arrange the cards in the following order from the back of the spread to the front: Red, Black, Jack of Clubs, Queen of Hearts, Red, Black, Red, Black, Red, Black, Red, Black, Red, Black In other words, the cards run in alternating color order, except for your two

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court cards which are positioned third and fourth from the top. 3. Once the cards are in the correct order, place the packet on the table and run through the deck. Up jog the Queen of Diamonds and the Jack of Spades. Strip them out, without revealing their faces and place them on the table in an overlapping pile. 4. Pick up the fourteen card packet. Tilt it up so that you can glimpse the bottom card. Remember the card as it will be your key card in a moment. Perform a Charlier Shuffle. For those of you unfamiliar with the Charlie Shuffle, here is a brief explanation: Hold the packet in your left hand. With your left thumb, push a few cards into your right hand without reversing their order. Separate the hands. Now, with your left fingers under the packet, push a few cards from under the packet, without reversing their order, on top of the cards in your right hand. Separate the hands. With your left thumb, push cards from the top of the packet, without reversing their order, under the cards in the right hand until the packet is exhausted. What you have done is simply cut the packet. It looks, however, as if you have given the cards a good mix. This is a very convincing illusion. And the sloppier you make it look, the better. 5. Place the packet on the table and have the spectators cut the cards a few times. 6. Pick up the packet and flip it face up. Spread through the cards as you say, “As you can see, the cards are well mixed.” Spread through at a brisk pace. When you spot the key card, cut it to the face of the packet and then turn the packet face down. 7. Hand the packet to one of the spectators and ask her to deal the cards into two alternating piles. 8. When this is done, ask her to pick up either pile. Ask another spectator to pick up the remaining pile.

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9. Have each spectator perform and Down/Under deal (The first card is dealt onto the table, the second card is placed under the packet. Next card goes onto the table, etc.) until they are each left with a single card in their hands. 10. Have them turn their cards face up and place them on top of their

respective packets. The cards will be the Jack of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts. 11.Turn over your prediction card to show they are mates, placing each prediction in front of their respective packets. 12. Say, “But that's not all. Because in spite

of all the shuffling, cutting and dealing, your card was the only black card in this red packet. And your card was the only red card in this black packet.”

Fig. 1

13. As you say the above, flip both packets over and spread them to reveal all

red cards with the Jack of Clubs and all black cards with the Queen of Hearts. Fig. 1 shows the final display.

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SELECTED ASSEMBLY Effect: A card is selected and lost in the deck, say the Five of Clubs. The magician makes three attempts to find the card but fails each time. Finally, he decides to do another trick. He removes the four Aces from the deck and places them on the table in the classic T formation, with the Ace of Spades being the leader Ace. The spectator then selects three cards from the deck. These three cards are placed on top of the Ace of Spades. The packet is given a wiggle over the other three Aces. The magician flip the packet face up and spreads the cards, revealing that he is now holding the four Aces. The three cards on the table are turned over. They are the Five of Hearts, Five of Spades and Five of Diamonds. The magician waves the Aces over the three Fives. He is now holding one card in his hand; the Five of Clubs! Performance: 1. Have a card selected, noted and returned to the deck. Control it to the top. 2. Hold the cards with the faces toward you and run through the deck as if looking for the selection. Note what the selection is, we'll stick with the Five of Clubs for this example, and up jog one of its mates. Say, “Was it the King of Diamonds?” When the spectator says no, strip out the card and place it to the back of the deck. 3. Repeat this with the other two mates, miscalling them for different cards. So now, all four Fives are on top of the deck. 4. Say, “This isn't going too well. Let's do a four Ace trick instead.” 5. Run through the deck and up jog the four Aces. Strip them out and arrange them so the Ace of Spades is at the back of the face up spread.

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6. Flip the deck face down and place the face up Aces on top of it. Spread over the top eight cards as you display the Aces. Square up the cards, catching a break under all eight. 7. Lift up all the cards above the break from above in right hand Biddle Grip. With your left thumb peel the first Ace halfway off the packet. Use the left long edge of the packet to flip it face down. Repeat this with the next two Aces. Finally, place the Ace of Spades, with four face down cards under it, on top of all. 8. Deal the face up Ace of Spades directly in front of you, but about six inches from the edge of the table. Turn it face down. Deal the next three face down cards in a row above the Ace of Spades. These cards are the mates of the Five of Clubs. 9. On top of the deck is the Five of Clubs, followed by the three Aces. 10.Cut the deck and hold a break between the halves. Riffle Force to the break and cut the bottom half back to the top. 11.Spread over the top three cards and take them into your right hand. Catch a break under the fourth card. Square up the three cards against your left thumb, adding the fourth card to the bottom of the packet. Drop the packet on top of the face down Ace of Spades. 12.Place the face down deck on the table so that it's between you and the Ace of Spades. 13.Pick up the packet and wiggle it over each of the three face down cards. Flip the packet face up and spread over the top three cards, holding the last two as one, to show all four Aces. 14.Flip the packet face down. Secure a break under the top card of the packet. Hold it from above in right hand Biddle Grip, holding the break with your right thumb. 15.Say, “Of course, if these are now the Aces. Then what are those three cards on the table?” 16.Move your left hand forward toward the card on your left. As you do this,

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move your right hand back so that the packet is hovering less than an inch over the deck. 17.Push the card on your left toward one of the spectators. As you do this, drop all of the cards below the break onto the deck. Have the spectator turn over the card revealing a Five. 18.Ask the spectator to turn over the middle card of the row and finally turn over the card on your right to reveal all three mates of the selection. 19.Say, “Did you pick the Five of Clubs?... You did? Well, watch this...” 20.Wave the single card in your right hand, which they still think are the four Aces, over the mates and then snap the card over revealing the Five of Clubs. Toss it to the table and show your hands empty.

ALTERNATE SELECTION PROCESS Here is a slightly advanced handling for the selection process. When you get to step 7 and are displaying the Aces, instead of catching a break under the top eight cards, catch a break under the top seven cards. Perform the Braue Addition sequence and deal the cards in the classic T formation. On top of the deck are the three Aces, followed by the selection. Hold the deck in overhand shuffle position. Run off the top four cards singly and then shuffle off the rest of the deck on top of all. On the bottom of the deck are the three Aces, the selection and then the rest of the deck. Spread the deck as you say you will have the spectator select a few cards. Catch a break under the bottom four cards and square up the deck.

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Start to re-spread and have the spectator touch any three cards in the deck. Up jog the three cards touched. Perform the Derek Dingle No Lap Switch (otherwise know as the Vernon Substitute Transfer) to switch out the three indifferent cards for the four cards under the deck. Place the deck on the table between you and the Ace of Spades and continue on with the trick as described above.

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FLUSH THE TRANSPO Effect: The magician removes the four Tens from the deck and places them on the table. The four Aces are then removed. The magician then exchanges one Ten for one Ace. When the Ace packet is flipped over, it is now seen to be the four Tens! When the former Ten packet is turned over, it is now a Royal Flush in Spades! Performance: 1. Run through the deck with the faces toward you and cut the King of

Spades to the face of the deck. Keep running through and up jog the Ten of Hearts and the Ten of Clubs as you say, “Let's use Dueces for this... On second thought, no, let's use my favorite cards instead...” Strip out the two Tens and put them to the back of the deck. 2. Run through again and up jog the Jack of Spades, Queen of Spades, Ten of Diamonds and the Ten of Spades. Strip them out and arrange them on the face of the deck in that order with the Ten of Spades at the face and the Jack at the back. Note: If you are proficient at culling, you forego the “Let's use the Dueces” ruse by simply culling the Ten of Clubs and Ten of Hearts to the back of the deck as you are looking for the Jack of Spades, Queen of Spades, Ten of Diamonds and the Ten of Spades. 3. Lift off the five cards at the face and turn the packet face down. Ask, “Any idea what my favorite cards are? Actually, they are the Tens.” 4. Perform a Larry Jennings Rhythm Count variation to show four Tens. Here's how: Elmsley Count the packet, catching a break under the third card counted.

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Flip over a double showing a Ten. Flip the double face down and deal the top card to the table. Slip the new top card into your right hand. Turn your left hand palm down to flash the face of another Ten. Rotate your left hand palm up and use your left thumb to deal the top card of the packet on top of the card on the table as your right hand rotates palm up to flash the face of its card. Place the right hand card on top of the other two cards on the table. Bring your right hand over the double in your left hand and lift it up in right hand Biddle style grip. Rotate your right hand palm up to flash the face of the last Ten. Turn your hand palm down and place the double on top of the the three cards on the table. 5. Place the packet to your right, about six inches from the edge of the table. 6. Pick up the deck and hold it with the faces toward you. Run through and up jog the four Aces. Strip them out of the deck and arrange them so that the Ace of Spades is the bottom card in the face up spread. Place the Aces on the face of the deck. 7. Buckle the bottom two cards of the deck (the Ten of Hearts and the Ten of

Clubs) and secure a pinky break above them. Hold the deck from above in right hand Biddle Grip. With your left thumb, peel the first Ace into your left hand, taking the two Tens under it. Keep a pinky break between the Ace and the Tens (Fig. 1). Peel the next two Aces on top of the first. 8. As you go to peel the Ace of Spades

into your left hand, Biddle Steal the other three Aces under the deck. Peel the Ace of Spades on top of the two Tens, but do not hold any breaks. 9. Turn the three card packet face down

and place it on the table directly in front of you, about two inches from the edge of the table.

Fig. 1

10.Pick up the supposed packet of Tens and hold it in right hand Biddle Grip. With your left thumb, slip the top card off the packet and drop it onto the

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table. With your left finger tips contacting the underside of the packet, back spread the bottom two cards to the left. Take these two cards into the left hand and drop them on top of the first card. You are left holding a double in your right hand. 11.Rotate your right hand palm up to show the face of the Ten of Spades and then place the double face down on top of what is assumed to be the Ace packet. Pick up the “Ace” packet. Slide out the bottom card of the packet and turn it face up. This is the Ace of Spades. Place the Ace on top of the three face down cards which the spectators assume to be Tens. 12.Snap your fingers over the “Ace” packet and flip it face up revealing four Tens. 13.Take the top two cards in your right hand and the bottom two in your left. Squiggle the cards. Reassemble the packet, placing the two in your left hand on top of the two in your right. The Ten of Spades is now on the face of the packet. 14.Square up the packet and place it face up on the table. 15.Say, “Of course, if these are the Tens, then these cards must be...” Allow the spectators to say “Aces”. “That's right. But if I just give a click Fig. 2 over the cards, then something even more amazing happens. Because now I have a Royal Flush in Spades!” 16. As you say this, snap your fingers over the Ace of Spades and the three

face down cards. Push the Ace off the spread diagonally to the right. Pick up the three face down cards and deal them one at a time in a diagonal, overlapping row so that the King is on the Ace and the Jack is on the Ten, revealing a Royal Flush in Spades. Fig. 2 shows the final display.

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