Magic Secrets

This pack is sometimes known as “The Wizard Pack” or “the BISEAUTE Pack”. You can buy it at a Magic Shop, or have it prepared for you by your local printer, who has a machine that will cut the cards accurately.

The stripper pack has one end slightly narrower than the other end – but no more than 1/16".

When a card is replaced with its wide end among the narrower ends, it can be felt by the projection of its wide end.

So if you turn the pack round after a card has been chosen and then have the selected card replaced, it will be reversed and can be found easily.

Use technique in turning the pack round for the chosen card to be returned!   Fan the pack to offer a choice of a card.

Take cards in right hand while spectator is noting — and remembering! — his card.

Fan cards in right hand for card to be returned. This has turned the pack end for end, and the chosen card can easily be found by its projecting wide end.

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Magic Secret #49
The Acrobatic Tie

When you simply point to your tie, it suddenly rolls up to your collar revealing a tiny duplicate of a chosen card.

SECRET A spring made of celluloid sewn inside the tie. Miniature card is sewn on back of tie.

Coil the celluloid strip into a tight spring and place it in hot water to give it permanent shape.

Pin the bottom of tie to shirt and tie knotted cotton to pin. Thread cotton through shirt leaving knot outside. When you point to your tie, your thumb and forefinger grip the knot on the thread.  A PULL and the pin is dislodged and tie rolls up. The card is one which you have forced on a spectator.

Magic Secret #50 The World's Longest Trick!

After a spectator has chosen a card and replaced it in the pack, you turn your back for a moment. I’m going to find your card and put it in my pocket, you tell him. Now turn round and face him again.   You then draw a card part-way out of your breast pocket.   P.S.: You forced the 10 of Diamonds on him by — "X-ing the cut"!

But when you take the same card out of your pocket, he will admit that the suit and the number of pips do match the card he took!,  Fingers cover corner where index pips would be. You’ll have to make a slit in the bottom of your breast pocket to accommodate this long, long card.

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Magic Secret #51 "And I Shuffled the Cards Myself!"

That’s what the amazed spectator will say when he sees you do this trick!
A shuffled pack of cards is placed back in its box by a spectator – but without touching either the box or the cards you can tell him the order the cards are in! 8 of Spades! 2 of Clubs! Queen of Hearts! 9 of Diamonds! Don’t draw attention to the box!  It holds the SECRET!
	Make yourself a card box like this. It’s like a big match box with a loosely fitting tray and with one end closed.
Before you start the trick, take half a dozen or so cards, memorize them, and slip them between tray and box.  Have the box open on your table.  Have the pack shuffled and placed in the box, and tell the spectator to close the box.  The loose cards secretly placed between tray and box will fall into the tray, on top of his shuffled cards when he closes the box.  You can now name them and have him check the pack.

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Magic Secret #52 Something Up Your Sleeve

A ghostly bit of business, in which the name of a chosen card appears, in letters of black or red, on the conjurer’s arm!
	First, arrange to “force” your card on the spectator, as explained in “X Marks the Spot”. If you want to force a black card, you’ll have to make this preparation beforehand.
	If you prefer a red card draw the pips on the flesh with a blunt stick – the red impression will soon fade. When you’re ready to perform the trick, pull up your sleeve – rub your arm vigorously and the red marks spring to life brightly again!
	If you want to force a black card, you’ll have to make this preparation beforehand – Write the name of the card on your left arm with a piece of soap (it won’t show!). Have the name of the card (after it has been chosen)  written on a piece of paper and burnt. Rub the ashes of the paper on your arm and the black ashes stick to the soaped letters.

Magic Secret #53 The Boomerang

Here’s What Happens:

A card is chosen and remembered by a spectator, who returns it to the pack and cuts the pack. The conjurer takes the Joker,  flips it through the air like a boomerang, and when it returns to him, he catches it in the pack like this. He lifts the Joker, thus raising the top half of the pack. The card beneath the Joker is turned over, and is found to be – the chosen card! SECRET In this trick we make use of a “locator” card.  This time it’s a card slightly wider than the rest of the pack.  Being wider, it projects at the side and can easily be found by touch.

Cut the pack at the wide card, and complete the cut, so that the wide “locator” is at the bottom of pack.

Have chosen card replaced on top of pack. Now let the spectator cut the pack and complete the cut.  This puts the chosen card in middle of pack with the wide locator immediately above it.

The Boomerang card trick once depended upon an intricate piece of sleight of hand.  Here is a simple way of performing this spectacular trick.

The pack is taken in the left hand and the Joker is spun through the air by the right hand.  Joker is gripped between first two fingers and sent spinning forward. PRACTISE THIS WELL! With practice you will be able to make the card return like a boomerang, and catch it in the pack held in the left hand.

Left hand holds pack on its die, with thumb on edge of the wide cared ready to catch Joker.

Let all cards below wide card fall forward on to outstretched fingers. Chosen card will be here.

When Joker is caught between “jaws” of pack, snap the pack shut again quickly. Have a spectator lift the cards above the Joker and find the chosen card immediately below it.

The opening and closing of the pack  must be covered by a wide sweep of the arm, as the left hand brings the open pack forward to meet and catch the spinning Joker.

Magic Secret #54 The Card on the Wall

Try this one next time you’re at a party.  Your audience will be amused – and amazed! – When they see you throw the pack at the wall.  They’ll be even more amazed when the chosen card is seen sticking to the wall, after the other cards have fallen to the ground!

SECRET A band of cellulose adhesive tape (“scotch tape”) just big enough to fit loosely on the end of a finger. The sticky side is outward.

1. Keep the finger with the sticky band on it folded into the palm.

2. Have the card chosen, looked at, remembered, and replaced in the pack.  Control it to the of the pack.

3. Place pack in left hand pressing back card (the chosen one) on sticky band. When you remove the pack , do so with a sliding motion, so that sticky band is slid off finger end and sticks to back of card.

4. Throw pack squarely at a high point on wall. The back card must hit the wall first and it will stick firmly, while the rest of the pack falls.