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The
Chameleon Card
Effect:
The magician spreads the cards face up and asks
a spectator to choose a card. The chosen card is placed face
up
on the table. The magician puts the card back into the deck.
Then the chosen card appears to be the only card that has a different
appearance on the back and is placed face up on the table a second
time.
The magician explains this chosen card has the
ability to
transfer the appearance on it is back to another card in the
deck.
To prove it the magician performs a shuffle and
the spectator is asked
to say “Stop” at any time. Once stopped, the magician stops
shuffling and shows the card corresponding at the point he has
stopped; this will be the second card chosen.
Once the magician
has finished his shuffle he rubs the first chosen card on the deck
and turns the card face down on the table. The appearance of its back has magically
changed;
the blue back card has been turned to a red back card.
The cards are spread face down and the card with
the different back
is replaced; this is the second card chosen.
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Preparation:
Substitute
one card of the 52 playing cards by a card of another deck of cards
with a different back appearance. This particular card is placed at
the bottom of the deck; we will call this card "special card".
In our case, let's take the Jack of Diamonds.
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Photo
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Performing:
1. Spread
the cards face up to the spectator and ask her to choose a card. |
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Photo
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| 2. If
she chooses the 52nd card, “the special card”,
there is very
little probability that it happens, but in case it happens,
do something else. For example shuffle the cards and say “It
is strange, you have chosen the only card in the deck with a
different back appearance”. |
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Normally,
she will choose another card; as she takes one, take care to not show
her the back of her card; ask her to place it face up on the
table. Imagine she chooses “10 of Clubs” (Photo 3).
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Photo
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| 3. Cut
the deck off, and place the chosen card beneath the bottom
card
of the deck, taking care not to show her the back of her card.
By doing this, you have placed her chosen card beneath the special
card. Then square the deck of cards. |
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Photo
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| 4. Spread
the cards face down on the table so that the
spectator can see one card
with a different back. Place apart on the table, all the cards
above
the special card and the other cards in
your hand. Having the
special card
on top and her chosen card in second
position. |
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Photo
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| 5. Turn
these cards face up so that their backs are not
visible. Tell your spectator “It is strange because you have chosen
the only
card in the deck which
has a different back”. |
At this
moment, perform the glide
technique and instead of taking
out the top card
(The special card), take out the second
card (see photo
6). Place
her chosen
card face up on the table.
Of course contrarily
to the photo, the glide isn't
visible if you hold the cards face up.
She thinks her chosen card
is also the special card. |
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Photo
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6.
The special
card of the deck is still on top because of the glide you have done.
Take
the deck of cards you have previously placed apart with the special
card
still overtaking. It is important that the special card still
overtakes, because the next step consists of cutting the
deck off
at that point. |
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Photo 7 |
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As the special card is on top, it is easy for you
to cut the deck off
and bring the special card (Jack of Diamonds) to the bottom position. |
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Photo
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Now,
you are going to perform a real bluff. Force the
bottom card to be chosen as a second card, you can use a Hindu shuffle
for that
or use a slip force. There are many techniques for that. To use the
Hindu shuffle, perform like that: |
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have previously told the spectator to say
stop at any time. As you are passing some blocks of cards from
your right hand to your left hand, at the moment the spectator says
"STOP", show her directly the bottom card of the deck you are holding
in your right hand. It gives the sensation to the spectator the card
you are showing, has been chosen randomly. But in fact, it's the
initial bottom card of the deck. It's a real
bluff, I have tested it and it works very well. |
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Photo
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| 9. Once
the special card is forced, go on shuffling the cards. After that,
explain the card she has chosen has the ability to transfer the
appearance of it’s back to another card. To show it her, hold the
card in your hand face up and rub it on the deck of cards, turn it
face down. |
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the spectator, the card's back has miraculously changed. Explain that
in fact the card's back has been transferred to another card. As you
tell this story, spread the cards face down on the table and return
the special card, this is her second chosen card (Jack of Diamonds). |
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Photo
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