2024.3 RR In the Bluff Force Book:Ramón Riobóo:Thinking the Impossible:37:Hermetic Press:2002:control:0:0:control:completed:orange,ygc SectionSTRGEN

This is a force. You will force the top card, F, g the audience by dealing and cutting. Audience is then taken down the garden path.. Stack

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TXTPRF Please remove any number of cards from the center, and let me not see how many you took. TextTXTPRF

Then, count and remember the number of cards removed, m Stack

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SpectatorSTUD:F-Dwn:: :: :0:1:1:cyan;STLD:F-Dwn:: :m: :0:1:1:cyan TextTXTPRF

Please replace the cards to top and square all the cards again to destroy any evidence of the number of cards taken. Stack

STUD:F-Dwn:: :: :0:1:1:cyan;STLD:F-Dwn:: :m: :0:1:1:cyan;STC:F-Dwn:*:F::*:0:1:1:blue;STUD:F-Dwn:*:*:*:*:0:1:1:green;STLD:F-Dwn:*:*:*:*:0:1:1:green MoveMVEGEN

run 1 card to btm. false shuffle Suggested NotationSGNDplpkt 1 SGNHash U * = U SGNHash ( run 1, throw deck ontop; undercut, run-jog a card, shuffle off; undercut, throw remainder ontop ) Stack

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Now go through the deck and please remember the card at the thought of number's position TextTXTPRF

OrSGNDplpkt Deal m cards. Then take the top card. MoveMVENTE

This is the force card! TextTXTPRF

Will you agree that I cannot possibly know the card you noted? However, I admit that I know the card must be among the top 15, because you didn't cut off more than that many. SectionSTRPSE

Use as favours, for example as follows TextTXTPRF

Please cut the deck to destroy any such clues TextTXTPRF

Give it another cut TextTXTPRF

And to make my task more difficult please shuffle the thoroughly TextTXTPRF

You can help me find the card. Please set the deck on the table and cut to any card, wherever you wish. MoveMVEGEN

Have her cut 3 times. Since you know the card ( it was forced ) you can adjust your responses. Play with colour, suit on first two cuts, fake-deduce the correct suit and misspell the value of the 3rd cut card (don't let them see the card). Finally, name it SectionSTREND