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Easy False Shuffles For The Beginning Magician
Every false shuffle in magic serves a specific purpose. You're either trying to protect a card or move a card, so that you can control where it is in the deck. Each trick, of course, has its own requirements. For our purposes here, we're note going to talk about specific tricks, but about how to control cards through false shuffles. Some of these are nearly effortless. Others require some practice time.
Here we go.
Situation: you have a card on the top of the deck that you want to keep in that position. In this instance, you want to keep it simple and use an ordinary riffle shuffle. All you have to do is remember which hand is holding the card you want to protect and make sure it's the last card of the shuffle. You can use this to protect a card at the bottom as well.
Not so bad, huh?
Sometimes you'll want to protect more than just the top card. Perhaps a number of cards at the top of the deck. Instead of the riffle shuffle, you'll want to try the overhand shuffle. It looks great and still allows you control over that small stack of cards.
Here's how it works: hold the deck in your left hand, horizontally, your thumb on the top edge, your fingers on the bottom edge. With your right hand, pull the deck upward, while holding one packet of the deck down with your left thumb.
Have the cards facing your thumb if you want to retain the top card. Have the pack facing your fingertips if you want to retain a bottom card. The key is to have the fingertips of your left hand keep contact with the card you want to retain.
Keep your body turned just slightly to the left so that no one can see you aren't shuffling that particular card.
Pull the cards up from the middle of the deck with your right hand, pressing slightly with your thumb to move a few of the thumb-side cards to the finger side. The card you want to keep should not move.
Shuffle the cards from your right hand into your left hand and repeat the action until you're satisfied. The card touching your fingertips is the card you wanted to keep in place.
Stacked Deck?
There will be times when you find yourself dealing with a stacked deck that you want to protect. The key with a stacked deck is that a cut of the deck generally won't hurt the stack. The basic hierarchy will remain in place. In these cases, you'll want to use a cut that appears to be a shuffle.
Here's one approach: with the deck in your left hand, use your left thumb to push a stack of cards from the top of the deck into your right hand. With your left fingers, push a stack of cards from the bottom of the deck in your left to the top of the deck in your right hand. Then move a stack from the top of the left deck to the bottom of the right deck. Repeat this process until the entire left deck is now in your right hand. This isn't so much a shuffle as a mixing of the cards.
Here's an alternative approach: with the deck held in your right hand, in the overhand position (the deck is held between the second finger and the thumb), pull off a stack of cards with your left thumb. Raise your right hand and bring it down to the stack of cards in your left hand, where your left thumb pulls of another stack. Simultaneously, you pull the first stack out of your left hand using your third finger and thumb. You now have two stacks in your right hand. The original, held between your second finger and thumb, and the stack you just took back from your left hand, held between the third finger and your thumb.
Repeat.
Finally, drop the entire contents of your right hand onto the stack in your left hand.
Moving A Card
Here's a twist of the above false shuffle, which this time is designed to move the top card to the bottom, again, using an overhand shuffle. As you begin, slip only the top card from the deck to your left hand. It should be the only card in your left hand. Then continue shuffling your deck into little packets in your left hand, each one on top of the last, with the top remaining at the bottom of the growing pile. When you're done, the top card has now moved to the bottom of the deck.
To achieve the reverse, moving the bottom card to the top with an overhand shuffle, begin with a normal overhand shuffle. As you reach the end of the deck, begin to pull off single card stacks with your left thumb until the only card left in your right hand deck is the card that used to be on the bottom. Drop it on the pile in your left hand and you've successfully moved your bottom card to the top of the deck.
The Hindu Shuffle
The advantage of The Hindu Shuffle is that it allows you to keep track of certain cards within the deck while giving off the appearance of having sufficiently shuffled and mixed the cards.
Hold the deck of cards face down in your left hand, and with the thumb and index finger of your right hand on either side of the pack, draw all but the top few cards away. Allow the remaining cards in your left hand to drop onto your left palm. Repeat this same process until there are only a few cards left in your right hand. Add these to top of the deck and begin again.
Here's an example of how to use The Hindu Shuffle: begin with the shuffle, and ask an audience member to tell you when to stop your shuffle. When he asks you to stop, allow him to remove the top card from the left hand stack. Continue shuffling, though at some point in the shuffle turn the cards in your right hand to 90 degrees and tap them against the cards in your left hand. This will give the impression that you're straightening cards, but the real purpose here is to see the bottom card. Once you know the bottom card, ask the audience member to once again tell you when to stop. When he does so, have him replace the card on the top of the pack in your left hand.
Drop the remaining card in your right hand on top of the stack in your left hand. This leaves the card that you previously memorized sitting on top of the card selected by your audience member.
Finally, ask your audience member to cut the pack, then fan the cards across the table, face up. The card your audience member picked will be immediately after the card you memorized. You know what it is now, and you can pick it easily out of the deck.
