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Back in the early 1970′s Kreskin had a National TV Show and many of the Magician’s I knew followed it faithfully, although they had a tendency to put him down for not admitting he was a magician, they had to admit that he was a talented enough showman to have a national TV audience.
On one show, Kreskin did an effect where after having two cards selected and thoroughly shuffling the deck, and showing the cards well mixed, he squared the deck and divided the deck into two equal piles of cards. After asking for the names of the selected cards, he then proceeded to first turn one card in each pile face up.
One card was black and the other was red, and neither was the selected card. Kreskin explained this was the first part of the miracle as he ribbon spread each pile to reveal one pile was all black and the other all red, except for one card in each pile that was of opposite color.
The kicker came when the red card that was selected, was in the pile amongst all black cards, and the other card selected, a black one, was amongst the ribbon spread red cards. “That’s amazing”!
The next morning I had no sooner opened the Magic Fun Wagon when a half dozen IBM Ring 117 members were at the counter. You have to realize here, that they were all retired, had been doing magic for years, and therefore did not have to be at work like me, so they could be at the Magic Shop early in the morning, no matter what day it was.
After a few minutes of nervous banter, it was obvious that they had all been in contact with each other the evening before, trying to puzzle out the effect Kreskin had done, but they were not successful in doing so. Therefore, they decided to jointly come to see me and pick my brain, or “torture” the secret out of me. I was secretly chuckling to myself and planning to teach them all a lesson.
One of them finally got up the courage…
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