Do you really want to know? (Not that I know in this instance)
But a lot of magic tricks have really, really mundane answers.
One magician for which I was able to tell a friend exactly how a particular show was done (and I did warn them it would be a major spoiler) was Derren Brown, and my friend’s response was “oh, that’s it? Kinda wish you hadn’t told me”
Much, much better to work it out for yourself.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sun 12 Jul 2020, 10:26,
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Sometimes it's actual legitimate magic, though.
David Blaine is a good example.
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There’s a difference between, say
Having a complicated hidden mechanism, and just having a stooge or relying on camera angles, though.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sun 12 Jul 2020, 11:36,
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Must be a stooge in this case.
Otherwise the fourth ace would need to be present in both halves.
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he'd just change the words
you pointed to this pile, that means (it must here/ we eliminate this pile).
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Nah, it's a pretty standard technique when getting someone to chose between two things in a trick.
He didn't say in advance what he was going to do with the chosen half, so could either say that the half selected contains the ace or that it contains the card indicating the ace's position in the other half.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sun 12 Jul 2020, 12:12,
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There were some people telling Derren Brown, to his face, that he was using real magic
And he had to tell them to stop embarrassing themselves.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sun 12 Jul 2020, 17:17,
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