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I've been working on the so-called Ultimate Card Trick which is rather popular on you tube at the moment.

The trick involves a selected card being cut into a red-backed pack of cards, which are then ribbon-spread face down to reveal that one card has changed to a blue back. This is shown to be the selected card, before being placed face down on the table as a second card is selected. This card, we learn, is supposed to turn upside-down as the pack is ribbon-spread a second time. However no card has been reversed, leading the operator to believe the blue back card has now changed into the second selected card (which, of course, it has).

My big problem with the trick in terms of its design (aside from a very bold force I'm not skilled enough to pull off) is the "no card has turned over" aspect of it. Instead what I have been doing is, following the second card choice, reversing the first card selected, which not only means the spread has a little more impact, but it gives more logic to the presumption that the blue card has changed.

My means of bringing out the reversal are a little rough and ready, though. The first choice card remains on the top of the face-down deck. I use a riffle stop to force the bottom card and use the cutting of the deck at the break as a means of both passing the card to the volunteer and to assemble the deck face up in my left hand, such that the first card is at the bottom of the deck. I then retain the bottom card while turning the deck back over, and repeat the same riffle-stop force as a means of bringing the reversed card next to the second card, making it a little more believable that the two cards have changed places.

This is my first post, and I hope it makes sense.

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