I first read about this effect in Paul Clive’s excellent book Card Tricks Without Skill when I was a 12 or 13. I have used it on and off ever since and although I’ve read over one hundred variations since then I still pretty much perform it the way Curry first described it. There is a fascinating account of this card trick being performed to Winston Churchill in Curry’s Magician’s Magic which added to my intrigue of this effect when I was a teenager.
In recent years the only thing I have changed is to use a deck of Steven Perry’s Belly Strippers so that you can start with a very clean shuffle of the cards before you begin.
I love this amazing card trick 🙂
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