Magic Trick : Meet Your Card Match

In this clever trick, freely selected cards, magically find their mate at the magical helpdesk.

Magic Trick Effect: Two cards are freely (yes, freely) selected and inserted face up in the deck in two different places. Magician runs through the deck and drops the face-up selected card and the face-down card next to it, on the magic desk.When the face-down cards are turned face up, they are seen to be the mates of the selected cards in color and value.

Magic Trick Set-up: Put deck in “Best Friends” order. See below.

Magic Trick Performance: Spread the deck and have a card selected. Cut all cards above selected cardto the bottom. Have card removed and replaced on the top of the deck, faceup. Undercut half the deck and peek at the bottom card. If it is a mate to the selected card, remember that the selected card is a before card. If it is not a mate, the selected card is an after card. Drop the cards in your righthand on top of the face up card. Repeat this 2 or 3 times; if you do it moretimes than that, it can be hard to remember what cards are what. Now runthrough the deck. When you hit an after card, drop it and the card after it on the magic desk. When you hit a before card, drop it and the card before it on the magic desk. Flip over the cards, and they match. Be sure to explain the mateconcept before you flip over the cards.

Magic Trick Features: Cards cut as often as you like Cards are freely chosen, no forces of any kind Does not work on Rainbow Deck principle

Best Friends Order The deck is simply set up in pairs by value and color. Put the two red kings together, the two black twos, the two red jacks, etc. You can cut this deck all you want. The Best Friends effect wont be affected if a pair are separated, one on top and one on bottom. With another cut the order will right itself.

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