A hat rests on your table a little to your right. First, two of the force cards are taken by spectators. They are replaced amongst their own kind and you explain that the spectators will practically find them themselves without knowing where they are. In explaining how the cards are to be passed illustrate by passing one at a time the seven top cards of the pack over to the hat and putting them inside. In doing this stand the cards on their side with the backs outwards.

Now apparently remove these cards, really taking only a couple, and place them on the bottom of the pack. Begin taking the duplicates of the first card, moving each card slowly across the intervening space and dropping it into the hat, until the spectator calls ‘Stop’. He names his card, turn the one in hand around, it is the right card.

Reach into the hat to retake the cards dropped in, tip over several of the indifferent cards that stand on their sides so that they fall face up on the force cards. Bring the bunch out openly with the face of the packet to the audience and remark, ‘I’m glad you called out at that spot, if you’d called out sooner you’d have missed it.’ Place these cards at the bottom of the pack and openly cut it, or secretly make the pass, at the short card.

The third spectator next calls ‘Stop’ at any card he pleases. As soon as you show that again the stop has been made on the right card, tip over the remaining indifferent cards face up on the force cards in the hat and show the faces of these as you bring out the packet. The subtle use of the indifferent cards completely camouflages the forcing pack and the use of such an expedient will not be suspected.

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