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The magician displays a deck of cards. The cards are different from a normal deck, because all the backs are different. Magician removes two cards from the deck placing them face up on the table. A spectator is now asked to think of any number between 5 and 25. The deck is handed to him, and the magician ask him to deal the number of cards he thought of face down on the table. When he has counted his selected number, he is to stop. When the spectator has stopped dealing, you place one of the face up cards at this point to "mark it". The rest of the deck is now placed on top. This is repeated with a second spectator, who again selects a number between 5 and 25, and deals out as many cards. The second face up card is placed at this point, with the rest of the deck being placed on top. The magician now recaps how fair the selection has been, with no force or any trickery. He now fans through the deck to display the two face up cards. He removes the face up card and the card just above it and places them aside. This is repeated with the other face up card. He displays the deck once again, all the backs are different. The face down card over the face up one is now turned around and found to be a perfect match for value and colour. For example if the face up card was five of Clubs, the face down card is five of Spades. This is so for the other pair as well. Then he turns both the cards in each pair face down and the backs match perfectly, although all the other cards have different backs with no other duplicates. And for a final climax, the rest of the deck is turned face up and ribbon spread on the table. All the cards are found to be identical, and different to the two pairs. Supplied complete with the very special deck, and instructions, the trick almost works itself.
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