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I found a video so I could understand it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdXIVQ-asqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdXIVQ-asqU There seem to be three
by perl4ever 5y ago
I found a video so I could understand it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdXIVQ-asqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdXIVQ-asqU
There seem to be three people involved besides the magician.
(1) the person who names a card
(2) the person who names a position
(3) the person who holds the deck and counts off the cards
I noticed that they state person (1) and person (2) are not stooges, but conspicuously don't say that about person (3).
But I'm tempted to go with those who say the secret is simply that they lie about (2) not being a stooge who knows the position of each card. That seems like the easiest way to do it.
If it really is a tremendously difficult trick that required years of training and so on, what's stopping someone else from doing it by just lying about the stooge?
- fenomas 5y agoWhen magicians talk about ACAAN it's assumed that the deal/count is done fairly by a spectator. Without that it would be considered a false count trick (of which there are of course many).
- perl4ever 5y agoIt's assumed? They explicitly state the constraints for the video, which are that two out of three of the people specifically are not stooges. That suggests that either the third person is a stooge, or that they want you to suspect the third person rather than the stooge so you will be more impressed when they don't do any sleight of hand.
- fenomas 5y agoYes, as I said. If you can't have a spectator do the counting then I think most magicians wouldn't refer to it as ACAAN. In your video the person counting is definitely not a stooge (he's a celebrity named Alistair McGowan).