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The following is a simple elevator rou­tine, with a nice kicker finish. At the start, the deck is stacked from the top: 7S,3S, 2S, AS, 4S, 5S, 6S, K, K, K, K.
Hold the pack face down. Obtain a break below the top four cards. State that you will do a trick using seven particular cards. Pick up the four-card block above the break, and flip it face up. Hold this face up block with the right hand from above. The AS will show at the face of the block.
Explain that the first three cards to be involved run in numerical sequence. Use the left thumb to draw the AS off the face of the right hand block. Use the left edge of the block to lever the AS face down onto the deck in the left hand. Repeat this with the 2S. The 3S (with the 7S hidden squared behind it) is flipped over as a single card on top of all. Deal the top three cards onto the table in a face down row from right to left. The audience will believe the cards to be the ace, two and three (reading from left to right). In fact, they are the two, three, and seven.
Obtain a break below the top eight cards. Flip this block face up. Display these eight cards as four, in the same manner as above (flipping over three single kings, then the final king with four cards hidden behind it). The audience will believe that the top four cards of the pack are the kings. Openly spread the top four face down cards, referring to them as the kings and explaining that the kings will perform some magic with the ace, two and three. As you do this, obtain a break beneath the fifth card from the top of the deck. Square up the cards, and lift up all five cards above your break. The packet thus removed is thought to be the four kings, but in fact consists of five cards, reading from the top: A, 4, 5, 6, K.
Drop the packet onto the card at the left end of the tabled row - supposedly the ace. Make a mystical gesture. . . then turn over the top card of the packet. It is the ace -- which has apparently risen to the top. Table the ace, face up.
Pick up the packet. Use a Single Buckle Count to display four face down cards. The last card of this count is placed on top of the packet (thus bringing the 2S to the top of the packet). Square the packet. Casually flash the face card (a king) as you drop the packet onto the next card in the tabled row (supposedly the deuce). Make your mystical gesture. . .then turn over the top card of the packet. It is the deuce -- apparently risen to the top. Table the deuce, face up, overlapping the AS.
Repeat the preceeding actions - Buckle-Counting the packet, flashing the face king, and dropping the cards onto the final tabled face down card (supposedly the three). Make your mystical gesture. Turn over the top card of the packet --the three has apparently risen to the top. Put the three face up and overlapping the ace and deuce.
The five cards remaining in your hand read from the top: 4, 5, 6, K, 7. Hold these cards face down. State that the trick just performed did not just depend on the ace, two and three. . .but on all seven cards involved. As this is said, deal the top card (4) face up overlapping the tabled group, then the five, and the six. The last two cards are kept squared as one (the king being hidden behind the seven) and placed face up on top of all.
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