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Supreme Control
This is an original version of the "Ne Plus Ultra" card trick first described in
"New Era Card Tricks" (Roterberg) and later in "Magical Originalities"
(Noakes).
If you learn the sequence of the method here described, those of my
readers who have not yet done so will add to their repertoire a fine
impromptu card effect with a borrowed pack, and suitable for all occasions.
The various deals and correct taking up of the heaps may seem somewhat
long-winded in print; the actions, however, once learned, all blend into each
other as the effect proceeds.
The performer must remember that the respective four heaps are
"numbered" from the right-hand position of the performer thus: 4, 3, 2, 1.
In rehearsing the trick a good plan is to mark these positions on the top of
the table to be used.
EFFECT.
A borrowed pack is shuffled, and eight cards are freely selected.
They are replaced on top of the pack, the cards cut by anyone and then
again shuffled and cut by the performer.
Each person who chose a card is called up to the performer's table in turn,
the performer on each occasion "discovering" the selected card.
The apparent open dealing, mixing and shuffling of the pack during the
experiment makes it impossible to believe that the chosen cards can be
under any sort of control by the performer. Yet such is the case.
METHOD.
Note carefully the exact manner explained for dealing the cards, and the
order of taking up the heaps from the table, as it is only in performing these
moves correctly that each of the selected cards, after the "discovery" of the
first one, invariably arrives automatically at a certain position in the pack,
although seemingly mixed up in it.
Use any genuine pack of fifty-two cards. (See the Joker is removed.) The
pack is handed to the audience and eight persons are requested tu each
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When the pack has been dealt out thus (four at a time) you will be left with
four cards in your hand.
Deal these four one on to each packet, starting as before at No. 1. (FIG.
18).
The second chooser's card will always be the eleventh card down in the
extreme right-hand hemp (No. 1).
You now request the chooser of the second card to hold your wrist and,
passing your hand over the four heaps, duly get "impressed" at No. 1 heap.
Take up this heap and fan the cards slowly face downwards from hand to
hand without, however, disturbing their order. Pulling out the eleventh card
down, show it to your assistant and make him verify it as his selected card.
Replace this card back in its same position. Dismiss the second chooser,
and invite the third to come up.
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going back from No. 2, spell c-a-r-d. This will bring your finger on to the
fifth (selected) card, which is immediately turned up and verified.
Dismiss the fifth assistant and call up the sixth.
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Hold the pack in your hand and say to the eighth chooser, "Oh, I nearly
forgot your card, but don't trouble to come up; just take the pack in your
own hands." (You hand him the pack.) "You chose the..." (name the card
you noted when you gathered up the cards after the discovery of the
second card) "and it is the seventeenth card from the top." The eighth
choosers card will always be the seventeenth card from the top of the
pack. The assistant counts down to the seventeenth card, and finds that it is
the one he selected! You have thus produced, each in a different manner,
eight selected cards that have been returned and mixed into an unprepared
pack.
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