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Small World Small World Patrick G. Redford















Special Thanks to the following for sitting through countless versions and minor variations of these effects. effects. Banachek Ben Seidman Paul Shirley Kayleigh Lange Ben Blau William Rader















Contents The Man Who Sold Who Sold The World (Introduction) PHAS !" Tin# World Tin# World ($ cards) PHAS TW! Small World Small World (%& cards) Mad World Mad World (%& card 'ariation) PHAS THR Perfect World Perfect World (%& Card "umer Match) ATR"AT PHAS *ne+,ected World *ne+,ected World (Prediction -ith %& cards) ull Routine ull Routine /!"*S !,,osites (Still) Attract Wild World Wild World Practical A,,lications Practical A,,lications A00"0*M















The Man Who Sold The World Paul urry*s now classic Out of this World 1 has spawned countless variations since its original '+,% release. -or some it is the penultimate effect. ost of these full deck versions have a su/0ect /lindly succeeding in perfectly separating twenty1si2 /lack cards from from the other twenty1si2 red. Those who su/scri/e to Rick #ohnson3s% philosophical notion of the 4too perfect theory5 6where a magic or mentalism effect looks too perfect and thus lead an audience directly to the solution or to an incorrect method /reaking the illusion of magical power7$ might 8nd a full deck red1/lack separation too un/elieva/le to /e attri/uted to an individual*s intuition alone. 9f you*re familiar with any fraction of the /ody of work 9*ve pu/lished over the years you*re already aware that 9 have an in8nity with presentations that empower the audience. audience. While 9 personally love the the idea of a full deck Out deck Out of This World $ 9 think it*s too impossi/le 6with odds at the one in two hundred eighty1one trillion7 to attri/ute its success success to anything more than trickery trickery.. Some have set to solve this issue /y controlling the 8nal out come to have two or three planned mistakes. Some of these pu/lished versions even go so far as to have an additional clima2 that predicts predicts that these these mistakes will occur occur.. While one of the variations you*ll you*ll 8nd in this manuscript manuscript contains a prediction prediction element$ it is my opinion that such predictions undermine the stronger effect of complete success. Such predictions support the demonstrated theory that the performer must 6somehow7 possess power over the order of the cards despite the 4hands off5 nature of the separation. Simply put$ most Out of This World effects effects involve too too many cards. cards. y 8rst 8rst 8rst e2posure to miniaturi:ing the effect to use less l ess cards was when reading Luke















#ermay*s Out of T(his) World in in his /ook Building Blocks 6pg. '%+7.( 9t /egins /eautifully with seemingly only si2 cards. The su/0ect successfully successfully culls the three red cards from the three /lack /efore the effect moves into a psychologically charged charged full deck separation. separation. The solution #ermay #ermay presents is very commercial and worth your time and consideration. Small World differers from #ermay*s #ermay*s in that it uses no more than cards known to /e in play. 9t may also uses as few as si2 cards and is much more akin to #on )rmstrong*s Out of this Blah Blah Blah , though has its inspirational roots in Karl -ulves Opposites Attract and artin "ardner*s Color Thot. Tiny World is the 8rst phase presented here and approaches with a mechanical method com/ined with the psychological advantage that allows the possi/ility of the su/0ect truly separate the three red cards from the three /lack. 9n the end the effect is virtually moveless. The rest of the /ooklet /reaks down different approaches to each phase separately in hopes you*ll pick and choose those you prefer. prefer. When in actual performance 9*ll do as many as three of them /ack to /ack. )s each version /uilds methodologically on the previous$ 9*ve chosen to e2plain each as if they were separate routines rather than individual phases of one. World /irthed through the inspiration of an effect 9 8rst read The roots of Small World and learned from Karl -ulves in Self Working ard agic called Opposites Attract ;. 9n this effect$ -ulves removed all of the kings and
















printed though 9 feel 9*ve contri/uted some changes that you may read later in this /ooklet that short cut and 0ustify much of the procedure and create a /etter end illusion. 9n the original effect$ one pile had to /e reverse counted for seemingly no reason. The kings were o/viously not all coming from the same packet /ut simply pairing the same opposing position as the ne of the ma0or advantages that Small World have over other versions$ is that less cards are in play so there*s less headwork that the performer need pay attention to.

The 8nal addition 9 feel 9*ve contri/uted to this sort of thinking is i s in the 8nal display position in which the cards are revealed face1up. )rmstrong )rmstrong used a su/tle packet switch techni














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Tin# World Tin# World /asic ffect4 a su/0ect correctly separates three /lack cards from three red cards. 5erit#4 =ou need si2 cards? three red and three /lack. )rrange them as follows from top down? red$ red$ red$ /lack$ /lack$ /lack$ /lack. Turn Turn the packet face down and you*re you*re ready to /egin. The cards may /e false shuf@ed one of two ways /efore the su/0ect is offered to e2tract any three cards. cards. =ou may use a harlier Shuf@e$ /eing sure to cut cut the packet /ack to its original starting position$ or simply do an overhand run shuf@e /eing sure not to mi2 the center few cards. Aeal the cards down onto the ta/le in a face down row. row. The /acks of the cards in the image /elow have /een changed to indicate what color each card is on its face. 9n performance all si2 cards would look the same on the /ack. /ack.















ore than likely the su/0ect will make a similar similar choice to the one /elow. /elow. Thus having one card from one color and two from from the other. other. There are a num/er of different choices the su/0ect may make$ /ut it will always yield the same results. Push the su/0ect*s su/0ect*s cards together together so that the the the odd colored card is on top. Ao the same with the three cards left /ehind. Dote? the piles will always /e gathered from opposite directions.

Position the two piles as pictured /elow?















Position check? there should /e one red card on the top of one pile and one /lack card on top of the other. By covertly switching these top two cards /etween piles$ every red card will appear to have /een separated from every /lack. Pick up the top card of each pile$ simultaneously taking the top card from the su/0ects pile with your left hand and the top card of the pile closest to you in your right. Bring these two cards cards up to chest chest level with the /acks /acks towards the audienceE holding them side side /y side. This action accomplishes accomplishes two things at once? it moves focus away from the ta/led packets and creates a time misdirection away from which hand took what from which pile. Look the su/0ect straight in the eyes and say anything to keep their attention on the cards you now hold. Such as$ “Wouldn't it be cool if these two cards were different colors? Place Place those two cards on the ta/le face up on the ta/le as follows? The left hand card should go left most and the right hand card goes right most. The right hand card should land face up to the left of the forward most pile. 9t should look like this?

















De2t$ take the top card of each pile$ this time taking the front1most pile*s card with the right hand and with the left hand taking the top card of the pile closest to you. Bring these two cards up to chest level as /efore and turn them to face the audience. Place these two cards down on the ta/le$ face up$ again in their respective face up piles. The left hand card will go in the left most and the right hand card to the right. Pick up the last two cards in the same way way$ display their F faces and place them face up 0oining the other four. four. By moving the cards from a vertical formation to a hori:ontal formation$ in com/ination with the su/tle one time position switch of the hands$ helps to make















6Dote the a/ove image is from the performers view point.7 ) special special thanks to Ben Siedman for encouraging this line of thinking while





























Small World Small World /asic ffect4 a ffect4 a su/0ect correctly separates 8ve red cards from 8ve /lack cards. 5erit#4 This is an e2tension e2tension of the tiny world world principle with ten cards. cards. This is the 8rst 8rst of two methods that will produce a perfect matching of every card.















su/0ect chooses to take a card$ it is removed from the spread and placed face down in front of the su/0ect. Cach card the su/0ect chooses to take is removed in the same way and placed on top of the face down card in front of the su/0ect. Cach card not chosen is left in the spread and slid under the cards left previous. This is repeated for the 8rst 8ve cards$ only. only. 9n effect$ as cards are removed they are reverse counted. )t this this point one of four things things will will have happened? ). 9f after the 8rst 8ve cards$ the su/0ect has only taken two$ proceed the same way with the remaining 8ve allowing the su/0ect to take three more. S
















one pictured /elowE pulling two cards from one color and two from the other.

































Ste, Three 6 The reveal.

































inal Thou2hts

















































































































































































































outcome /y giving the su/0ect full credit. When it doesn*t the cards still still pair /y value. Sometimes this happens happens in opposite color$ color$ sometimes opposite opposite suits$ thus supporting the claim that opposites really do attract in every way. way. ) solid script pulls the entire effect together.















Wild World Wild World /asic ffect4 Ten ffect4 Ten cards? four kings$ four
When it comes time for the reveal$ one of three things will occur? '. The cards cards will pair pair themselve themselves s in perfect perfect king1














=ou may also capitali:e on this same gender couple /y having a prediction read out at the conclusion that there will /e four men1women couples and one same gendered couple. 9f you wish to add add four 0acks into the mi2$ this will result result in si2 couples with two /eing same gender. gender. inal Thou2hts inal Thou2hts When adding a same1se2 couple into the mi2 it takes some of the edge off presenting this effect strictly as men and women always al ways attracting one another.















Practical A,,lications Practical A,,lications World effect lends itself well to many presentations and doesn*t need The Small World to /e limited to playing cards. cards. -lash cards or picture cards that deliver a company message message may /e appealing to some. Perhaps you wish to demonstrate how product O can help prevent against contracting viruses over a computer network. 9nstead of using 8ve cards use 8ve pictures of computer /ugs. The other 8ve 8ve cards are replaced with pictures pictures of 4happy computers.5 computers.5 The su/0ect is given a name tag that reads “product 7 thus empowering him or her to e2tract the viruses successfully.

>ther*s may opt to use the !0*bolo"0 2ec# /y Sean Taylor. This is a special set of CSP cards that includes multiple sets of sym/ols with different colored World effect faces. These lend themselves themselves perfectly perfectly to the the Small World effect and /ring a completely complete ly different tone to the presentation. presentatio n. appily appil y$ r. r. Taylor*s cards are also secretly marked















Addendum Adde ndum

















Charlier Shuf1e Charlier Shuf1e (The alse Ha#mo Shuf1e)4 This false shuf@e is perfect for a small packet of cards where traditional shuf@es would /e out of place. 9 8rst learned this particular false shuf@e from #ean #ean ugard and -rederick Braue*s 8o0al 8oad to Card +a"ic 6p. ',( of the '+G; edition7. old the packet of cards face down in the left hand$ in dealers 6mechanic*s7 grip. Push off a small group of cards with the left thum/ and take these into the right hand /etween the thum/ on the /ack and 8ngers at the face. Raise the left hand slightly and$ with the left l eft 8ngers$ push out a small packet from the /ottom of the pack and place these on top of the right hands cards.ontinue this /ack and forth action until you*ve run through all the cards. While this shuf@e does maintain the full order of a stack$ it does leave this stack in the same orientation it would /e after one complete complete cut. 9f you*d like to maintain a complete stack that doesn*t result from a single cut$ simply 0og the 8rst packet /ackwards from the /ottom of the deck and 8nish this shuf@e /y















Afterthou2hts After thou2hts 9 was a/out ten years old when 9 8rst got the idea that 9 was a/le to somehow separate the red and /lack cards from a face down shuf@ed deck of cards /y feeling the face of each card card with my 8ngertips. )ctually$ )ctually$ 9 did e2actly this successfully over and over /eating the odds getting a/out G;I of the cards in each pile correct without any conscious form of trickery. trickery. 9f you*re curious to the e2act conditions under which this test is performed 9*ve included them at the end of this essay. essay. )s the years past$ 9*ve 9*ve had a lot of time to think a/out why 9*m a/le to demonstrate this seemingly ama:ing skill. 9 have since found that 9 had simply fallen victim to a consistent con8rmation con8rmation /ias. This isn*t to say 9 was only getting successful results some some of the time /y chance and forgetting the instances where 9 wasn*t /eating the odds$ /ut rather that within each trial 9 had su/consciously created four elements elements of self1deception. self1deception. 9n recent years 9*ve consciously added two more pushing my accuracy rate to an H;I1+&I success each and every time. To date$ 9*ve performed this countless times having all sorts of conditions placed on the performance. 9t*s /een restricting to /eing done /lindfolded and even done with conditions as e2treme as performing the separate of cards in















6%&'(7 8gurehead in charge of the #ames Randi Cducational -oundation*s illion Aollar hallenge? Banachek 6who conse
The separation procedure involved is lengthy in that each card is held anywhere from 8ve to ten seconds /efore /eing placed into a committed pile. -or this reason it doesn*t often 8nd its way into my commercial commercial performance work. work. 9 tell you all of this not to /rag /ut rather to o/serve that even though the procedure is slow$ slow$ people 8nd the process and the end result result fascinating. This is further evidence and support that a traditional con0uring method and presentation of the classic Out of This World effect can capture and hold the attention of an audience. )s long as the process in which the cards are separated 6/e it /y the performer or /y /y an audience mem/er7 mem/er7 remains engaging so is the effect. effect. The 9ntuition !eparation accomplishes this /y presenting impossi/le i mpossi/le conditions$ ruling out any sort of apparent trickery$ trickery$ and /y seeming to e2plain the 4legitimate5 divination process. Separation 15 as Promised? onditions of the Intuition Separation •

)n un1tampered$ unmarked$ standard deck of ;% cards is used.















9nterestingly$ 9nterestingly$ a novice su/0ect may /e coached through entire process to successful successful results without knowing how he or she accomplished success. success. ost report /ack that there was legitimate effort applied. The level of self1deception is so strong that it is even possi/le to have positive results 6though not as strong7 when passing detailed written instructions and a deck of cards to a su/0ect and having him or her carry out the test and recording the results without the supervision of another. )t the time of this writing 9 am preparing to conduct a mass1study surrounding surrounding this phenomenon as e2ecuted unknowingly /y layman. 9 hope to eventually eventually report my 8ndings and 8nally divulge the workings of the 9ntuition !eparation.















.And I eel I eel ine.

















Patrick Redford - Small World

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