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left packet and it’s not seen because it is now hat side up. cian cards picture side down; and one magician card face
There are now 11 hats in the left-hand packet. up. It’s now a straight run through to the end. Pick up the
You cover the secret transfer of the card by telling the “sixth,” “seventh,” and “eighth” magician cards in turn,
audience that the magicians all went off into a room to pairing them each with a hat card and putting them in
discuss the secrets of magic and left their hats in the your pocket.
cloakroom. In other words, keep their minds busy with Pick up the “ninth” magician card and pair it with a hat
your story. card. Finish by saying, “And that left the last magician with
The magician cards are picture side down on the table the last hat. And everyone went home none the wiser. I
in a squared packet. The hat cards are picture side up in have no idea how they do that.”
the left hand. The handling of the double-face card and a little verbal
Explain that while the magicians were trading tricks, one trickery make the trick possible. Because of the way all
of the hats disappeared. Spread the hat packet and ask a 20 cards can be openly displayed at the beginning of the
spectator to take one. You don’t have to worry much about routine there is scope for variety in handlings and also the
them spotting 11 cards instead of 10. When the card has presentation. If you have the chops, it’s just as easy to palm
been taken, casually cut the bottom four cards to the top. a card from one packet to another rather than have the
This places the double-faced card fifth from the face. Now packets make contact. [Editor’s Note: The Vernon Transfer
square the packet and drop it picture side up on the table. Move gives you the best of both worlds.] If putting pictures
Take the hat card from the spectator and put it in your on cards is not your thing, then just add a double-faced
pocket to symbolize the theft. Compliment him on a job card to a regular deck and you can do pretty much the
well done. same thing with red spot cards and black spot cards. •
Continue your story, saying that there was a vote and the
first magician chaired the conference. Pick up a magician
card from the top of the face-down packet, turn it picture
side up and place it on the table. “But some of the magi-
cians didn’t like him and decided to leave early. And so the
second magician collected his hat.”
With your right hand, pick up a magician card from the
pile and place it picture side up in your left hand. The
right hand then picks up a hat card from the other pile and
places it on top of the magician card. Both are then placed
in your pocket. You can show the faces of the magician
cards as you handle them.
Do the same actions as you say, “A third magician fol-
lowed.” Again take a card from the magician pile, turn it
over, and place it in the left hand. Then take a hat card,
place it on top and put both in your pocket. You will repeat
this sequence throughout the routine.
Repeat the pairing procedure with the “fourth” and
“fifth” magicians, putting the pairs away in your pocket.
“Then,” you say, “a very strange thing happened. Another
hat disappeared.” And with that you pick up the top card
of the hat packet, which is the double-faced card, and put
it in your pocket. The double-faced card is marked so you
can be sure you are picking up the correct card. It actually
doesn’t matter at which point you dispose of this card, but
I find position five or six in the packet is about right.
There are now five hat cards on the table; four magi-
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