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I dont think you really need to do all that complicated stuff all i do is say can you place the card on top then give it a really good false cut and shuffle, unless ive got a difficult table or audiance then i do all that complicated stuff . I dont do more than i have to otherwise i might get to involved in the trick and forget about the performance so i just keep everything as simple as possible like i do in every life situation.

lindz wrote:place the card on top then give it a really good false cut and shuffle

I wonder how consistently just an 'on the top, then a simple false cut' would work? And I mean a simple false cut, nothing remotely flourishy or (apparently) confusing to the eyes - a Slydini, say. You'd have to point out that the card was being lost (presumably with an, 'OK, we'll just bury that is the pack somewhere [and move straight on]' rather than something awful like, 'I will now cut your card into the pack'), but there's a wonderful 'open' cleanness to it, isn't there? The card is replaced, the spec can see where she's replaced it, the magician cuts it into the pack very 'plainly', and the deck is on the table - the magic isn't even touching it anymore.

But anyway, the reason I have a card returned into a dribble is that I have the spec select the card from a dribble. I think you need to do that or it looks suspicious. If I ask the spec to choose from a fan, I have them replace it in fan. In the above scenario, for example, I think it'd be best to tell the spec to cut the deck and take the top card before having it returned and lost by cutting the top card in.

lindz wrote:
place the card on top then give it a really good false cut and shuffle

sexton blake wrote:
I wonder how consistently just an 'on the top, then a simple false cut' would work? And I mean a simple false cut, nothing remotely flourishy or (apparently) confusing to the eyes - a Slydini, say.


Well i use it all the time to speccys unless there a difficult bunch and my reactions are just as good as when i do something more complicated also as of yet ive never had anyone say something like cant i just put it in the middle so my consisancy is 100% at the moment which is great even the speccys are making my life easier .

I like to go for a riffle and slip force for selection, insert it into cut with a PB, cheeky little swing cut with mis-direction, then a nonchalant riffle shuffle.

Basically making it seem reallly normal and insignificant. What don't want is any attention brought to the shuffling of the deck when controlling.

Make it seem really simple and don't over do it, or go to town with needless false shuffles

I like to go for a riffle and slip force for selection, insert it into cut with a PB, cheeky little swing cut with mis-direction, then a nonchalant riffle shuffle.

Basically making it seem reallly normal and insignificant. What don't want is any attention brought to the shuffling of the deck when controlling.

Make it seem really simple and don't over do it, or go to town with needless false shuffles