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    This document provides instructions for performing a card trick that allows the performer to secretly glimpse the card selected by a participant after it has been shuffled by the participant. It describes using a "Shuffle Transfer Glimpse" technique to secretly view the card during a shuffled deck selection without the participant realizing. The trick is meant to be a simple yet deceptive method for learning the selected card.

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    John Bannon - Mentalissimo

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    This document provides instructions for performing a card trick that allows the performer to secretly glimpse the card selected by a participant after it has been shuffled by the participant. It describes using a "Shuffle Transfer Glimpse" technique to secretly view the card during a shuffled deck selection without the participant realizing. The trick is meant to be a simple yet deceptive method for learning the selected card.

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    This document provides instructions for performing a card trick that allows the performer to secretly glimpse the card selected by a participant after it has been shuffled by the participant. It describes using a "Shuffle Transfer Glimpse" technique to secretly view the card during a shuffled deck selection without the participant realizing. The trick is meant to be a simple yet deceptive method for learning the selected card.

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    John Bannon - Mentalissimo

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    This document provides instructions for performing a card trick that allows the performer to secretly glimpse the card selected by a participant after it has been shuffled by the participant. It describes using a "Shuffle Transfer Glimpse" technique to secretly view the card during a shuffled deck selection without the participant realizing. The trick is meant to be a simple yet deceptive method for learning the selected card.

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    Do not underestimate the power of this trick.

    The pain-to-glory ratio is very low


    with a very high glory component.
    Even better, it's infinitely repeatable. When asked to think about which trick he
    would choose if he could only do one trick for the rest of his life, Marlo (though
    this may be apocryphal) said that he would choose a trick that could be repeated
    again and again for a participant without fear of detection. This'll do it.

    MISE EN SCENE
    THE PITCH
    I added the opening line about the murderer and the victim to this trick. I think a
    healthy dose of the outre can improve a card trick-especially a mental effect-but
    not so bizarre that the audience immediately realizes that they are seeing or hear-
    ing "presentation." My goal is to be conversational, interesting, and a maybe just a
    little strange. Remember this is the first effect of the evening-my audience is not
    expecting to hear about murder victims and old superstitions. Now they are not
    sure what to expect.
    The secret is simple: You covertly know what card the participant selected.
    How do we secretly ascertain the participant's card? Technically, a force might
    accomplish that objective. I believe, however, that the method should affirmatively
    preclude any conclusion that the card was forced.
    Let's go with a shuffled deck and a participant peek, followed by a really deceptive
    glimpse. I am very skeptical about the claim that a peeked card can be parlayed
    into a purported "thought-of card." Well, not just skeptical, I really think the claim
    is self-deceptive nonsense. You can call it a "thought-of card," and your participant
    may go along with you, but it's not a true mental selection. That said, the peek-
    plus-glimpse is a very fair-looking, very deceptive selection procedure.
    You can use your favorite glimpse technique, and there are several very good
    ones. In Dear Mr. Fantasy, I employed Steve Draun's fabulous method, "The Fan
    Glimpse, one of the finest moves in all of card magic. If you don't know it, you
    really should check it out. I have also used B.J. Bueno's method for glimpsing a
    selection during a hand-to-hand dribble selection procedure-another very fine
    card move. You can't know too many of these handy and diabolical moves.
    For now, however, follow me through the more recently-devised Shuffle Transfer
    Glimpse and its application to this trick.

    THE SHUFFLE TRANSFER GLIMPSE


    First, have the deck shuffled. This is important for a number of reasons. I want my
    audience to remember that the deck was shuffled by a participant (that is, really
    shuffled). And for this trick, you must emphasize that the deck was shuffled and at
    no time do you see the faces of the cardst.

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