Liam Montier - The Elmsley Count Project Vol 2
performance Michael Ammar
tutorial Michael Ammar @7:03
Todd Landman Performance
Strong Magic Performance
Daryl Performance
tutorial
Created by Dai Vernon
Script
I'm going to turn the aces over one at a time and then back down again but I'm not going to do it manually the way I just did, instead I'm going to have the aces turn over on their own. But to get the them to turn over I first have to give the packet a little twist like so. This causes the first ace, the ace of diamonds turn over. Another twist and the ace of diamonds turns back and the ace of clubs turns over. Now that's two of the four aces and of course, when I give the packet another twist, the third ace, the ace of hearts turns over. Now you might be thinking that twisting the cards doesn't actually cause them to turn over but it really does. See, if I don't twist the cards first, then nothing happens. But when I give the packet that twist, then the final ace, the ace of spades, turns over.
Script (Daryl)
Now I'm going to tell you ahead of time what I'm going to attempt, breaking all rules of the magi. I'll attempt to twist the aces from a face down position, magically, mysteriously and hopefully entertainingly, into a face up position like this, ok.
Now in order to do this, I have to do a move known as twisting the aces. By giving the small packet of aces a clockwise twist, that causes the first ace to turn from face down to face up, the ace of diamonds...
Script (Todd Landman)
(following a routine to produce the Aces)
Now of these four cards, there's one that has particular properties. It was that first card we withdrew, the ace of spades, I refer to as the elusive ace because it's hard to find. Look as I turn my cards and give them a tap, one of the cards makes itself known to us. If I turn the cards and give them a tap the other card, luck card, makes known to us. But that's only two out of four, we need the next one which is love, but not that elusive ace, the ace of spades, that powerful force in our lives. Let's see if we can't extract it, we turn everyone face up and everyone face down, I turn and I tap but alas the ace is still elusive. But watch (blows and ace appears). This festive season make sure you count your blessings.
Script (Big Blind Media)
Magicians always get asked how they practice their sleight of hand secret movies. A lot of magicians just carry a few cards around so they can practice on the go, while waiting for a bus, plane, or a train or something. So this is something I like to tryout with the aces.
Now we'll save the ace of spades till the end because that's the difficult one, the other aces are easy.
So check this out. All we're going to do is give the packet a little turn and that should cause the first ace to turn face up, just there the ace of clubs.
Watch again. Just a little twist, and that gives us the second ace which is the ace of diamonds.
If you didn't see it that time, you get one more shot. We just give the packet a little turn, and that turns over the ace of hearts right in the center.
So that's the easy ones down, so we just got the tricky one left to go which is the ace of spades. Let's see how we do. Oh I said that's the tricky one but actually I just forgot to give the the packet a twist. And that leaves us with all four aces.
Script (Michael Ammar)
Now magicians are trained to look at things in an in-obvious way. Now for example let's take the four aces here. A lot of people don't realize there's a lot of ways to turn a card over. That's something most people don't think much about, you didn't think much about that did you. So you could turn a card over sideways like a book. Another way to turn a card over is end for end just like this. Only a magician can actually turn a card over inside the spaces between the cards. Now that sounds like an interesting thing to think about doesn't it. Right. It keeps me up at night.
Now here's how we do it we take the cards just like this and all we do is twist and Justin twisting the cards just like that one card turns itself over okay now you probably didn't know what to look for but now you do and I'll do it again all we have to do Square the cards up give them a little twist just like this the ace of hearts are turned over before Ace of Hearts turns over and now the ace of clubs turns back over all right yeah no no you know you know what to look for there goes the ace of clubs I'll try it now for the ace of diamonds all I have to do it's twist the cards just like this and the ace of diamonds turns itself over that's three aces the only one that hasn't turned itself over is the ace of spades and the ace of spades is a little more tough see the ace of spades doesn't work automatic you can't just cause the ace of spades to turn over just by twisting so that doesn't do anything ace of spades you actually have to command to twist over all you have to do is get it to snap to attention and just like this the ace of spades
