A mysterious, baffling, entertaining, eye-appealing transposition of two selected cards.
A selected card vanishes, reappears, vanishes, and transposes itself with another previously selected card. This PDF includes the original manuscript, plus all the refinements and methods Marlo added over the years.
More detailed effect description:
Two spectators freely select cards from a shuffled deck. The selections are returned to the deck, which is mixed and cut. The cardician removes five cards. Each one is shown and tabled, then he asks, "Did anyone see their card?" One of the spectator affirms.
The cardician says, "I'm going to make your card invisible and remove it from the packet." He simulates this action, then shows the packet to consist of four cards. The selection has vanished.
He double-checks the packet, finding only four cards. He pretends to replace the "invisible selection," then spreads the packet to show five cards - four face-up X cards with a face-down card in the center. He says, "There it is!" He squares the cards and again pretends to make the selection invisible. He tables the "invisible selection."
This time the cardician throws the "invisible selection" into the tabled deck, which is then ribbon-spread face-down to reveal the face-up selection. He picks up the packet and shows four X-cards. He asks, "Now I'll remove the other selection from the deck and toss it into the packet." He proceeds accordingly and eventually spreads the packet to show four face-up X cards with a face-down card between them. It turns out to be the other selection!
- Effect
- Original Methods
- First Method
- Second Method
- Marlo's Favorite
- Controls And Switchouts
- Original Control (1949)
- From-The-Spread Switchout
- Mechanical-Second Switch-Out
- Direct Exchange
- Fake Put-Down
- Atfus Exchange
- Doubly Devilish Miracle
1st edition 1993, 40 pages; PDF 39 pages.
word count: 8789 which is equivalent to 35 standard pages of text
