heres something i came up last night after thinking about a certain effect by Helder Guimarães. Read through with deck in hand, you might like what you find, if you can understand it.
An unwanted sandwich
Effect: Two jokers are set aside. A card is selected and lost. The jokers are set on top, and instantly catch a card! It is not the selection! The magician tries again, and catches a second card between the jokers, and it is also not the card! The magician shakes the jokers and about half the deck is in between the jokers, none of which are the card. The magician shakes the jokers again, and now the entire deck is in between the cards! All of the cards, except one card left in the magicians hand, which is of course the selection. An unconventional means to an end.
Method: You need two identical jokers for this. Set these jokers face up on the table for now. Have a card selected and control it to the bottom. Take the two jokers and show them with the right hand as you pinkie count on card. Set the jokers onto the pack and shake the pack. Pick up the three card packet in elmsley count grip and push off a double onto the deck, holding a break. Pick off the card in the right hand as the right hand reaches into the break and steals the bottom joker, so that it can complete the count. Pick up the three card sandwich in the right hand, and show the card to be wrong. As you do, pinkie count one card and hold a break. Set the three card packet on top, shake, and pick up all the cards above the break and perform a standard elmsley count, with the deck still in hand. Show the four card sandwich in the right hand again, showing the magician has ****ed up again. Set the packet back on top of the deck, holding a break. Now, pick up half the deck in deep biddle, holding the break. It should look just like you have that four card packet, no more. Peel off the top card with the left thumb and hold a break below it with the pinkie. Drop the half deck as you go to peel the next card off. Peel the next card, and as you take the final joker, pick up all the cards above the break and shake. One hand fan, showing all the cards the jokers have collected. As you do, buckle the bottom card on the left hand packet and hold a break. Close the one hand fan and hold it in right hand biddle. As you do, push the bottom joker to the right with the left fingers, so that your right fingers can hold the card in third and fourth clip. As you turn to the right to point out the cards in the right hand with the left hand pointer finger, you are going to feed the card in right hand clip into the break, still holding that break above the bottom card. As you turn back, steal all the cards above the break in right biddle and shake again, and one hand fan. Turn over the only card in the left hand for the final climax.
A molded loaf
This is a quick method for a strange sandwich. Take your sandwich cards, and lose them in the deck, controlling them to the top. False cut the deck a few times, and triple lift. Double lift, but turn your hand toward you a bit, so they cant see the face up card. Place the top card into the deck halfway, spin it, and take it out and place it face up onto the deck, and spread for the climax of the sandwich.
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An unwanted sandwich
Effect: Two jokers are set aside. A card is selected and lost. The jokers are set on top, and instantly catch a card! It is not the selection! The magician tries again, and catches a second card between the jokers, and it is also not the card! The magician shakes the jokers and about half the deck is in between the jokers, none of which are the card. The magician shakes the jokers again, and now the entire deck is in between the cards! All of the cards, except one card left in the magicians hand, which is of course the selection. An unconventional means to an end.
Method: You need two identical jokers for this. Set these jokers face up on the table for now. Have a card selected and control it to the bottom. Take the two jokers and show them with the right hand as you pinkie count on card. Set the jokers onto the pack and shake the pack. Pick up the three card packet in elmsley count grip and push off a double onto the deck, holding a break. Pick off the card in the right hand as the right hand reaches into the break and steals the bottom joker, so that it can complete the count. Pick up the three card sandwich in the right hand, and show the card to be wrong. As you do, pinkie count one card and hold a break. Set the three card packet on top, shake, and pick up all the cards above the break and perform a standard elmsley count, with the deck still in hand. Show the four card sandwich in the right hand again, showing the magician has ****ed up again. Set the packet back on top of the deck, holding a break. Now, pick up half the deck in deep biddle, holding the break. It should look just like you have that four card packet, no more. Peel off the top card with the left thumb and hold a break below it with the pinkie. Drop the half deck as you go to peel the next card off. Peel the next card, and as you take the final joker, pick up all the cards above the break and shake. One hand fan, showing all the cards the jokers have collected. As you do, buckle the bottom card on the left hand packet and hold a break. Close the one hand fan and hold it in right hand biddle. As you do, push the bottom joker to the right with the left fingers, so that your right fingers can hold the card in third and fourth clip. As you turn to the right to point out the cards in the right hand with the left hand pointer finger, you are going to feed the card in right hand clip into the break, still holding that break above the bottom card. As you turn back, steal all the cards above the break in right biddle and shake again, and one hand fan. Turn over the only card in the left hand for the final climax.
A molded loaf
This is a quick method for a strange sandwich. Take your sandwich cards, and lose them in the deck, controlling them to the top. False cut the deck a few times, and triple lift. Double lift, but turn your hand toward you a bit, so they cant see the face up card. Place the top card into the deck halfway, spin it, and take it out and place it face up onto the deck, and spread for the climax of the sandwich.
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