Casanova

Think of a card. The secret card you merely thought of, is revealed by perfect Faro shuffles and a little math.

My own strong German accent caused me to ask my daughter to speak the patter for me. Hopefully you can better concentrate on the effect. Any Faro trick looks suspicious to the spectator, but the math behind is striking beautiful. So in fact a Faro trick is self-working -- if there was not the challenge of the shuffle:-)

For you Faro Shufflers, the secret of the math behind, is the transposition of two cards in a sequence of perfect in and out shuffles, a number which corresponds to the exponent of the base 2 exponential number of cards in the deck. With 32 cards, which is 2^5, you need 5 perfect shuffles for the transposition. (To find a card in 64 cards you need 6 perfect shuffles. Unfortunately a poker deck has 52 cards. That's why I had to reduce the deck to a German Skat deck of 32 cards) With this technique and the spectators information whether he is seeing his card, you can move the spectators card to the destination, where the joker can find it. The final twin surprise of course comes from the palindromic stack. which is retained through the shuffling process.

The design of the trick is original by me.

The casanova card image is from a 1927 silent film "Casanova"
http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/Casanova1927.html
http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/img/filmImages/C/Casanova1927-01.jpg

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• mismag822
• perfect shuffle
• faro shuffle
• card trick
• card magic

[harmonic41]

That was kinda cool.

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@harmonic41 Thank you!

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