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Charles Miller Method

Mr. Miller has made some modifications in this shuffle which make it not only more deceptive but easier to do.

1. Divide the pack, taking the top half in the right hand, place the inner corners together, and seize both packets at the sides close to the adjoining ends between the second finger and thumb of each hand, the third and fourth fingers curling in with the first joints resting on the packets and the first fingers pressing down on the backs.

2. Raise the thumb corners and release a half dozen cards from the right thumb, then continue the action with both thumbs until all the cards have been riffled in. When the corners are interlaced, move the hands to the outer ends, grasping the sides near the corners between the thumbs and second fingers, and telescope the two packets about two thirds, Fig. 1.

3. Shift the position of the fingers at the outer ends, placing a second finger at the middle of each end and resting the ball of each thumb upon the inner side opposite the inner corner of a packet, Fig. 2.

4. Press the tip of the right second finger upon the table to hold the right packet motionless during the following actions. Push the left packet to the right with the left second finger, pressing it diagonally inwards. This forces its inner right corner against the ball of the right thumb, which prevents it from breaking through the inner side. The packet continues to slide diagonally into the right packet, the ball of the right thumb moving along with it at the inner side and always pressing back upon the corner as it seeks to break through.

Note in A that the left thumb remains motionless on the inner corner of the right packet, but that the right thumb moves with the inner corner of the left packet, as indicated by the small circles.

Thus during this action the outer side of the pack, which the onlookers can see, always presents a regular appearance. When the action is completed the pack appears as in B. The diagonal jog at the inner side, exaggerated for the sake of clarity, is in practice no more (and sometimes less) than a quarter of an inch.

5. Place the thumbs and third fingers at the end corners, Fig. 3, and apparently push the packets flush, but actually apply a pressure with both thumbs as indicated in B. This serves to move the pack into the condition shown in C, in which there is shown an extension of each packet of a quarter of an inch. Grasp this extension at each end with the thumbs and third fingers, draw the right hand packet half an inch towards the right, then move the hand outward so that the packet slides free from the outer side of the left hand packet, at the same time drawing both hands inwards towards the body, Fig. 4.

6. Drop the right hand packet on top of the left hand packet, returning the pack to its original condition.

Note that when the two packets have been telescoped, as in C, prior to the strip-out action, the hands may be removed from the pack and the spectators will find nothing unusual or suspicious in its appearance.