“I’m going to show you a card and I want you to remember it.
“I’m going to show you a card and I want you to remember it. I won’t look.” I won’t look.”
With your right hand, lift the stepped packet and
With your right hand, lift the stepped packet and allow the spectator to look at, allow the spectator to look at, and remember, theand remember, the King of Hearts.
King of Hearts.
“I’ll also deal a couple cards from the e
“I’ll also deal a couple cards from the e xact xact place place you you stopped stopped but but wewe won’t look at them justwon’t look at them just yet.”
yet.”
With your left hand, thumb off the top two cards of its half face down to the table or into a With your left hand, thumb off the top two cards of its half face down to the table or into a spectator’s hands. These two cards are the original top cards of the deck, the Eight and the Nine spectator’s hands. These two cards are the original top cards of the deck, the Eight and the Nine you arranged there earlier. Reassemble the deck by putting the right half onto the left but keeping you arranged there earlier. Reassemble the deck by putting the right half onto the left but keeping a break between the sections. Double Undercut to the break to bring the selected card back to the a break between the sections. Double Undercut to the break to bring the selected card back to the bottom.
bottom.
You can indulge in a shuffle or cut again while maintaining the bottom stack. After this obtain a You can indulge in a shuffle or cut again while maintaining the bottom stack. After this obtain a break below
break below the Breather the Breather Joker. To Joker. To do this, do this, with your right with your right hand, take hand, take the deck the deck in End in End Grip andGrip and lift it just slightly out of the left hand. If you relax the right thumb’s grip on the deck, the cards lift it just slightly out of the left hand. If you relax the right thumb’s grip on the deck, the cards will break at the Breather Crimp and all
will break at the Breather Crimp and all of the cards below it will drop bacof the cards below it will drop back into your left hand.k into your left hand.
Readjust the deck so you are holding it in Dealing Position with a left fourth-finger break below Readjust the deck so you are holding it in Dealing Position with a left fourth-finger break below the Joker.
the Joker.
“I’d like you to look at the two cards from the position yo
“I’d like you to look at the two cards from the position you selected. Please add together theiru selected. Please add together their values to get a secret number.
values to get a secret number. Whatever this number is, using my delicate touch Whatever this number is, using my delicate touch with playing cards,with playing cards, I will cut exactly that n
I will cut exactly that number of cards from the deck.”umber of cards from the deck.”
Have the two cards on the table turned over and their values added together. The spectator will get Have the two cards on the table turned over and their values added together. The spectator will get a sum of seventeen. You can now instantly perform the Cummins Production cut to apparently cut a sum of seventeen. You can now instantly perform the Cummins Production cut to apparently cut seventeen cards from the middle of the
seventeen cards from the middle of the deck.deck.
Paul Cummins’s Production Cut Paul Cummins’s Production Cut
Your right hand thumb takes over the break in the deck as you take the deck in end grip.
Your right hand thumb takes over the break in the deck as you take the deck in end grip.(Photo(Photo 91.)
91.)
Photo 91 Photo 91
The right forefinger lifts up about half the cards above the thumb break and swing cuts into the left The right forefinger lifts up about half the cards above the thumb break and swing cuts into the left hand.
hand.(Photo 92 and Photo 93.)(Photo 92 and Photo 93.)
Photo 92
Photo 92 Photo 93Photo 93
The right hand smoothly moves its packet over the cards in the left hand and
The right hand smoothly moves its packet over the cards in the left hand and drops off all the cardsdrops off all the cards below the thumb break outjogged onto the left hand’s packet.
below the thumb break outjogged onto the left hand’s packet.(Photo 94.)(Photo 94.)
Photo 94 Photo 94
The right hand then moves the remainder of its cards back into alignment with the left hand packet, The right hand then moves the remainder of its cards back into alignment with the left hand packet, leaving the cards that were “dropped
leaving the cards that were “dropped-off” sandwiched between two blocks of cards.-off” sandwiched between two blocks of cards.(Photo 95.)(Photo 95.)
Photo 95 Photo 95
The outjogged packet is swiveled out by the right hand and clipped between the first and second The outjogged packet is swiveled out by the right hand and clipped between the first and second finger.
finger. (Photo 96, Photo 97, and Photo 98.)(Photo 96, Photo 97, and Photo 98.)
Photo 96
Photo 96 Photo 97Photo 97
Photo 98 Photo 98 Count the packet slowly
Count the packet slowly into the spectator’s hands to verify you have cut to the chosen amount.into the spectator’s hands to verify you have cut to the chosen amount.
Then ask for the name of
Then ask for the name of the selected card before turning over the selected card before turning over the last card to reveal it.the last card to reveal it.