Card Tricks The Transpo Triumph

This card magic routine presents a gambler versus magician challenge. The magician must locate four aces and a selected card after a gambler shuffles the deck with half face-up and half face-down. A spectator selects and loses a card into the pack. The deck is shuffled multiple times with cards mixed face-up and face-down, then shown fairly to be thoroughly mixed. The magician snaps his fingers, and all cards magically align except the four aces, which appear together face-up in the middle of the deck. After squaring the deck and snapping his fingers again, the magician spreads the deck to reveal all four aces have vanished, leaving only the selected card face-up in the middle. The four aces are then revealed to have appeared under a close-up mat. The four aces and selected card may be signed by the spectator. Darin Martineau is a student of Allan Ackerman and Ed Marlo, with over 35 years of experience in magic and author of more than 50 magic books.