Having forced you to exert your digits and abilities in the past few months, and in honor of the coming of spring, this month you won’t have to trip the sleights fantastic. Both items explained below can be done within one minute of reading the descriptions.
You might wonder where I dig these things up. The simple answer is that, like a most happy piglet snooting for truffles, I find new tricks and sleights by traveling to the people who invent them. In January I went to two magic conventions, and in February spent a week in Los Angeles mostly at The Magic Castle. At the latter I had the pleasure of watching Bernardo Sedlacek do a great set in the Close-Up Gallery, and you’re going to learn a trick he did for one of his spectators on the offbeat.
Just outside London I sat with John Carey for a while and he passed along a simple false shuffle that was extremely effective. In both cases, the link that binds them is what the spectators don’t notice or see.