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It must be conceded that this pass cannot be made invisibly with the hand at rest and without cover, but this can be done under cover of the right hand when the pack is hidden momentarily in taking it by the ends between the right thumb and fingers.

Perfect cover can also be provided, without the intervention of the right hand, in this way:

After you have split the pack and a selected card has been placed on top of the lower packet, quickly raise the hand above your head, saying: “Who’ll shuffle the deck?” Make the pass as the hand is raised, the upward motion making the transposition of the packets easy. At the end of the action let the pack rest on the left thumb, the fingers pointing upwards, Fig. 3.

This method of bringing a card to the top, when combined with the one-hand top palm in handing the pack out to be shuffled, is one of the best methods of controlling a chosen card yet devised.