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FLYING CARDS

Two rows of different cards are placed face up on a table. Someone is asked to check that none of the cards are duplicates. When this is done the assistant is asked to gather up one of the rows of cards and place them face down on the table. He is then asked to place his hand on the cards to make sure that nobody can get at them.

Tell your assistant to look at the remaining row of cards and to think of any two cards in the pile. The cards are then gathered up and the spectator is asked what the two cards were. When these cards are again laid out on the table, the two selected cards will not be there. They will now appear in the first pile.

THE FLYING RIBBON

The magician displays a wooden tray containing four metal cards red, blue, green, and yellow. He also shows a wooden frame. Clipped to the frame are four clothespins colored to match the cards. Hanging from each clothespin is a matching ribbon. The magician asks a spectator to select one of the cards from the tray while he turns his back. The magician (still turned around) asks the spectator to replace the card in the tray.

Now the magician turns and points to the tray and asks the spectator to think of the card that he selected. The magician picks up the frame and holds it in front of him as he concentrates on the spectator's selection; suddenly one of the clothespins flies straight up into the air with the ribbon flowing beautifully behind. Of course it is the clothespin that matches the spectator's selection.