Mark Leveridge Magic

A Wrinkle On - This One, That 1

JOHN HOTOWKA

John took the trouble to ring me to suggest the following alteration to the handling of the final part of THIS ONE, THAT 1, as he has found a way of eliminating a couple of small moves. Try this with the cards in your hands and you will appreciate that it is most effective.

You have reached stage 9 in the instructions. The spectator is just turning over the second card on his hand to reveal the word THIS ONE now printed on its face. At this point the remaining two cards, which are being held face up in the left hand, are turned over by the left hand turning palm down.

Immediately the left thumb pushes the bottom card of these two forwards to reveal the words THAT ONE. The right hand immediately pulls it out and places the card onto the two already in the spectator's hand. This will leave the final card face down in the left hand.

All that then remains is for the right hand to turn this card over to reveal the figure 1 for the surprise finish. Although John accepts that his handling is illogical, nobody questions it because, as he rightly says, the trick is a fun effect, not a world beating mystery which is being performed to challenge the intellect of the audience! His handling avoids you having to secretly turn over cards under cover of misdirection.

One final tip - John says that he has put a pencil dot on the back of the 1 card at the end which has the top of the figure 1 on the other side. This means he can make sure that when he turns the card over the digit is round the correct way.

BRUCE HETZLER

Bruce sent an email with this wrinkle in it, so I pass things over to him...

I thought that I would pass along a minor handling variation (really sort of a mini-Wrinkle) for This One, That 1.  It occurs at the very end of the routine, when you are left with one upside-down card in your hand (the card with the large number 1 on the face).  Rather than simply turn it over,  I use the Vernon through-the-hand move to apparently magically print the card. 

To do this, the card is located upside-down across the extended fingers of the left hand.  The left hand turns palm down, while the fingers bend inwards, trapping the card (which is still face-down) between the fingers and palm of the left hand.  The left thumb then pushes the card through the left hand. 

The right hand removes the still face-down card and places it again on the outstretched fingers of the palm-up left hand to repeat the push-through. (This familiarizes the audience to the move.)  

On the third time, the face-down card is placed not on the outstretched fingers, but rather on the palm of the palm-up left hand.  This time when the left hand turns palm-down, and the left thumb pushes the card through the hand, the card emerges face-up with the large 1 showing.  

Patter for this would be: " . . . and this final, card?  . . . Well, this is just the conclusion to a simply WONderful trick!" The actions are timed so that the 1 makes an appearance as you say "WON (i.e., ONE)-derful trick".  It is rather nice to end the routine with this play on words, don¹t you think?