Pit Hartling Card Fictions.pdf
Lorean Hoefert
In July 2006, Arnaud Chevrier published (on a French private forum) an idea with Mnemonica where the magician would cut to 4 kings with a series of swing cuts. Upon revealing the 4 produced cards, people realise the cards are not kings; the magician missed.
My thinking was: if I produce 4 cards that are wrong but whose values lead to the 4 cards I wanted in the first place, people will think I made the first mistake on purpose, whereas if the 4 wrong cards are produced by the spectator, apparently at random, nobody will suspect that he made a mistake on purpose, or that I forced him to make a mistake that would actually help me.
Pit Hartling is among the top creators, authors and performers of card magic in the world today. His book Card Fictions has become a modern classic. This time Pit has turned to the memorized deck. The results are exceptional.
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