When I was a sophomore in high school I had a friend, who beside being an excellent Chess player, could do a sleight with cards that I never could catch. He could do a perfect double lift out of the middle of a spread. I found this out while attempting to us a classic force on him. It looked like he took the card I wanted him to, and he did, but he didn't see the card I wanted because he took two cards. Somehow he was able to remove two cards in perfect alignment from the middle of a spread of cards that was under my control. I wish I remembered what he did before removing the cards, but I don't. What makes this entire story more impressive is the fact that he wasn't a magician.
Do any of you know if a move like this has been published? Has anyone else ever seen this done? I'd love to see a method. (I may just have to create a method myself.)
I'm not exaggerating in the slightest when I say it was perfect. I don't think anyone could catch the fact that he was holding two cards. The entire action blended in perfectly with his natural mannerisms and gestures, and somehow he was able to align two cards in a spread and remove both of them as one, look at them, and return them to the deck without ever having them separate, and without ever creating the slightest ripple on the lake of suspicion in my mind.
Do any of you know if a move like this has been published? Has anyone else ever seen this done? I'd love to see a method. (I may just have to create a method myself.)
I'm not exaggerating in the slightest when I say it was perfect. I don't think anyone could catch the fact that he was holding two cards. The entire action blended in perfectly with his natural mannerisms and gestures, and somehow he was able to align two cards in a spread and remove both of them as one, look at them, and return them to the deck without ever having them separate, and without ever creating the slightest ripple on the lake of suspicion in my mind.