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Chapter IV

Card Subtleties Utilizing Key Cards

The single most useful secret in card magic: a card you know beside the card you don't.

The principle: The Key Card

In this chapter

25 tricks
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A Couple Of Cards Get

Two cards are chosen by two people, shuffled into the deck, yet they end up resting side by side.

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Mental Vision

Four cards are freely chosen and lost, yet you slowly divine the name of every one.

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Phenomenal Thought Cards

A spectator freely chooses a card and loses it in the deck, which is shuffled and cut.

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Indetecto

A spectator buries a card, cuts repeatedly, and deals, yet you instantly name its exact position in the deck.

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Detected By Fingerprints

A spectator freely cuts the deck and looks at a card, yet you find it as if reading their fingerprints.

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The Three Heaps

Three spectators each remember a card from their own pile, yet you find all three after the heaps are shuffled together and cut.

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Double Prediction

You predict two numbers in advance, and two freely chosen cards turn up exactly at those positions in the deck.

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Impenetrable Stop Trick

A spectator shuffles, marks a card with the joker, then deals while you call stop exactly on their card.

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Mephisto's Prediction

You write a prediction in advance, and a freely chosen card is found counted down to that exact number.

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The Sequel

Two numbers you wrote down in advance turn out to mark the exact spots where two freely thought-of cards end up.

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A Count Down Mystery

A spectator shuffles, thinks of any number from one to twenty-six, and while your back is turned deals to that number, notes the card there, and buries everything with a cut. When you return you someh

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The Card and Number

The spectator shuffles, you cut off a small packet, and they freely touch and remember one card from a fan.

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Tone Control

A spectator buries a freely chosen card, then names every card aloud, and you catch theirs by 'the sound of their voice.'

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The Mystic Seven

A card chosen from one of seven cut piles is buried among the others, yet you divine its name from across the room.

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Master Mental Mystery

While you are out of the room, any number of spectators take cards; on returning you name every one and how many were chosen.

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Infallible Detection

A spectator merely thinks of a number, peeks at the card there, and you produce that exact card from your pocket.

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Face-Down Detection

With your back turned, a spectator deals out a row of cards, quietly fixes one in mind, and then keeps dealing and mixing as freely as they like before gathering everything up. There is no force, no q

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Devilish Cards

A spectator keeps three cards, mentally settles on one, buries it through dealing and cutting, yet you sense it from across the table.

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Comedy Twin Card Prediction

Two spectators each arrive at a card by counting their own freely chosen number, and your two written predictions match both.

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The Nervous Card

A card seems to jump from your packet to the spectator's, landing right beside the card they freely chose.

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The Nifty Key

The spectator deals and mixes the deck, then thinks of a number, secretly counts down to that position, and remembers the card waiting there. They square the deck, cut it, and only tell you the number

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Up Your Sleeve

You take a shuffled deck behind your back and have the spectator cut off a packet and secretly count it. After they bury their packet in the middle of the deck with a single cut and square everything

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The Quartette

Four cards are chosen and shuffled hopelessly into the deck, yet you reveal all four through spelling and apparent mind-reading.

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Think Of A Card

A spectator stops you anywhere and merely thinks of one card among several, and you later find it without a word.

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Demon's Detection

While you wait outside the room, a spectator buries a card they merely thought of, yet you find it on the deal.

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