Cut Deeper Force

The Cut Deeper Force is a method for forcing a card. How it looks: Place the deck face down and ask the spectator to cut off a small portion, turn it face up and replace it on top. Now, ask the spectator to cut off a larger portion of the deck, turn it face up and replace it on top again. Ask the spectator to spread the cards and slide out the first face-down card that appears.

History

There is a description of this force in Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 6, N° 8, January 1949, page 501 in Roundabout with Fred Braue under the trick Little Card Rise, but not attributed to Ed Balducci.

A description appears in Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 14, N° 6, november, 1956, page 502 under the trick The All Fair Coincidence by Ed Balducci and Ken Krenzel.

In Marlo Meets his Match (1959), page 18, we can read : "The work of this routine... was inspired by the use of a well known Cut Force as applied to a Do As I Do routine by Balducci and Krenzel..."

You will also see in some later magic routines with this force being attributed to Henry Christ.

Variations

• Marlo's Cut Deeper Force Subtlety [?]